Hey there!

I talked with some friends about these japanese cube watermelons and one friend mentioned that he had seen an episode about it in "Sendung mit der Maus". Me and the other also vaguely remembered this episode. They shot a timelapse of the episode in a greenhouse. When the Melon was fully grown some (probably japanese) people harvested the melon and put it in the freezer. Because of it's cube form it fit perfectly.

The Episode probably aired around 2007-2010 we guessed.

When searching online we only found a episode where one of the hosts is trying to figure out the amount of water in a Melon, but this is a complete different episode.

Can you help us maybe?

A game like Samurai Vs Zombies Defense but you summon sea creatures. Im not sure if the game had a playable character but I think not. Sadly I dont remember how it was called and couldnt find any pictures or videos of it. But I know that the game had the same style and gameplay of SVZD, just lacking the character. Most likely no one in here will know this game, but if someone does please write to me. I googled it and couldnt find anything remotely similar, the games graphics were like SVZD too. It was 3d and free to play.

I'm looking for a Speedway gas station commercial that aired sometime in the early 2000's. I only remember seeing it on television once, airing in a late afternoon. It features an old woman on a white porch swing held up by dark chains in front of a yellow house. There's a window into the house behind her, and there's a grassy area (and maybe a road?) in the background of the shot as it was filmed off to one side. I think it's just one quick shot of her on that swing, maybe sipping a cup of Speedway coffee, before it cuts to generic gas station footage. I believe this was during the time when the company was using the jingle "we're on your way, the convenient stores of Speedway." My family has been looking for this commercial for over a decade; the white porch swing was hand-built by my late father, and the house is my childhood home.

I've tried searching on YouTube for archives of old Speedway commercials, going through Speedway's archives through the Wayback machine, and checked archive's website as well. I regret not writing down when I saw the commercial, or what I was watching when it aired, because then I would search for recordings of that show, too. If anyone knows where I may be able to find this commercial, I would be grateful beyond words.

Back when TheOdd1sOut released his video on movies he thought were weird in childhood, I recall a joke he made at around the 4:11 minute mark in the original video about mouse and immigration. I'm almost certain he removed it sometime in the last five years because of poor taste because the video now makes a noticeable jump to the next scene at around that same time frame. I hope someone knows where I can find the original since I'm curious about why it was removed in the first place. The current video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQBTKfH1fk&t=264s&ab_channel=TheOdd1sOut

So back in I wanna say 2007, there was this YouTube video of this Pikachu figure/toy being set on fire in a microwave as the Johnny Cash song Ring of Fire plays

I think the original uploader deleted it a few years ago because I remember within the last 5 years I've watched it again before they removed it. Sadly I don't have an archive of this video I watched many years ago. If anyone has a waybackmachine URL link or video file of it I would be really grateful to see it again.

Something to note is the upload didn't have a lot of views.. maybe 2 thousand at best? I remember it didn't have too many back when I rewatched it and it's not a Jogwheel video from the is it a good idea to microwave this? Series

There was a show on Discovery called Last One Standing (Last Man Standing on BBC) that followed 6 men across the globe competing in different aboriginal events. Season one had 12 episodes on the Discovery channel (8 on BBC version). I’ve been searching forever for a DVD or digital version of the Discovery channel show but I cannot find it anywhere (its opening sequence plays “Ladies and Gentlemen” by Saliva).

The series has been posted on this sub before but the Gmail link is broken. I purchased this version from Amazon and ripped it to my computer but week 3, the endurance race in Mexico, is corrupted. If anyone has a lead on where to find this show in a digital format, the DVDs, or even just that single episode I would really appreciate it.

Thank you very much for your help.

I remember watching a bowflex commercial with my brother back in 2006-2007. It was a guy who was making a testimony saying that bowflex helped him. Then he goes on to say that he gave all his fat clothes to his fat friends. It was such a messed up commercial tbh.

I remember I could find it easy online even though it was a banned commercial. I remember they cut out the part he talked about giving his fat clothes away. Then they decided to just ban the whole commercial. Now you can't find it anywhere, only online forums talking about it.

I honestly hope someone has it, because me and my brother watched it and thought it was a messed up commercial.

On YouTube, must've been around 2010-2012, but possible earlier, there was a web series called "Real Life Big Daddies " (or maybe "Big Daddies in Real Life). It was a series of short, homemade videos on youtube that had a sitcom vibe which revolved around the Big Daddies from the video game BioShock. I watched these when I was very young, and they left a huge impact on me. These videos, along with other early channels like Smosh and NigaHiga were crucial into getting me into filmmaking, which is now my career.

It was real people in homemade costumes. I remember Rosie and Bouncer pretty clearly, but I think the Rumbler and Alpha Series were at the very least mentioned. The big Daddy helmets were made out of plain, brown cardboard, and were pretty decent looking, but definitely not cosplay grade or anything. There was no recorded dialogue, just Big Daddy groaning sound effects with white subtitles. The setting was entirely or almost entirely in unfinished basements with no other set design. Also, Rosie had a best friend which was a bowling pin that they would take with them everywhere.

I want to emphasize that these were homemade, very low quality, created by normal people, and had no lighting, special effects, or anything like that. They had that super early YouTube vibe. I think they tended to be around 3-4 minutes long. I don't remember the channel name or how many episodes there were, but I want to say there were at least 6? up to 11?

I cannot find anything, anywhere about this series, but I'm not a particularly good investigator, so I thought I'd try my luck here. I understand this is unlikely to be found, but as I said above, BioShock is my favorite piece of fiction of all time, and it, and this web series, were huge inspirations for me getting into my career of filmmaking. If one other person even remembers this series I would be ecstatic.

I used to work at an FBO that no longer exists. I have a 30 second recording of the intro to the safety videos they make me watch as part of my onboarding. I remember nothing about them other than they were on VHS and recorded/uploaded to the PC. I got to hold one of the original VHS tapes but don't remember what was written on it. I vaguely remember being told they are on DVD as well but they did not buy them because it's the same exact video on the VHS.

I've tried googling but to no avail. I don't know if anyone else remembers watching these And could provide more information to identify it.

Thanks!

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Crossposting this here to spread awareness of this project. Please spread the word to preserve ipod classic!

43/53 iPod clickwheel games have been preserved and available to sync to your iPod Classic/Video or Nano 3g-5g devices

We are almost at our goal of preserving all the games!

The remaining games we need to archive are: Bubble Bash Cake Mania 3 Chess & Backgammon Classics Lode Runner Mahjong v1.1 Ms. PAC-MAN v1.1 Naval Battle Pirates of the Caribbean: Aegir's Fire Real Soccer 2009 Scrabble Star Trigon Sudoku v1.1 Tamagotchi 'Round the World Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Trivial Pursuit Wonder Blocks

If anyone has any of these games please come forward and help us preserve the whole list of this forgotten lost media!

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Olsro/ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject

NOTE : 11 GAMES ARE MISSING FROM THE LIST, THEY NEED TO BE FOUND BEFORE THE LAST VERSION OF ITUNES IS UPDATED AND IS NO LONGER IN DATE

I AM NOT APART OF THIS PROJECT I'M JUST SIMPLY SPREADING AWARENESS THIS IS A CROSS POST TO HELP THE OP AND THE IPOD CLASSIC COMMUNITY https://www.reddit.com/r/IpodClassic/comments/1gebxzn/has_anyone_ever_played_the_tetris_port_on_your/

I hope this is the right place for this discussion, do forgive me if not.

I was recently browsing a bunch of archived flash games that have been preserved pretty well since the death of flash player, and I remembered one I used to play all the time as a kid (specifically the official Phineas and Ferb game Rocket To The Stars that was only available in the UK and Europe lol). I went looking for a playable version, but all I can find now are broken websites and the contracted artist's portfolio page. Which honestly broke my heart because it was so niche and weird, and I loved it to bits. I poured hours into that browser game as a kid, trying to build a bigger and better rocket.

And it made me wonder how many other fairly obscure games got lost to time because of adobe removing flash player. A lot of the bigger games ended up getting well preserved, but everything is someone's favourite and not everything ended up being saved, so I'm sure there are a lot of people who's all time favourites are gone forever.

If you have one then I'd really like to hear about it. Like, what it was, why you liked it so much, that kinda thing. It's an absolutely miniscule part of the internet's history, but it's something I'm really interested in.

again, apologies if this isn't the sort of discussion intended for talk posts, I'm not a frequent reddit user lol

Hello, the other day I noticed a song I really liked was removed from Spotify, so I went to search for it elsewhere. Only to find the band Real Fake Flowers has nuked everything of theirs from the internet. All their socials, any site that had their music available to stream or buy, everything is just gone.

The only thing left is two songs that have been reuploaded on youtube by other people.

I'm hoping to find as much of their music as possible, any help is appreciated.

They were an indie band, here are the two songs (1, 2) that have been reuploaded i really do recommend giving them a listen.

I don’t have much to go off of as this was when i was a kid back in maybe 2010-13 i barely even remember to begin with but i searched up portal gun in the app store and found this stick man game where i was able to make portals and go through them like portal gun but just in 2d and as a stick man. i don’t remember the objective of the game or anything that’s all i remember. I deleted the game off my ipad and then went to go redownload it and never found it ever again.

I'm a massive Ruby Gloom fan and I love finding every little bit of content made for it that I can possibly find. The thing about Ruby Gloom is, well, a LOT of content for it is lost. There were games/other content on the old 2002-2006 website, some things barely work, some things are just entirely gone, with not even a trace of footage showing how it used to look. But this was completely different, I stumbled across footage of this by accident. There was apparently an official German Ruby Gloom flash game (video got blocked in the US so here's an actual viewable version) on an old website called Toggo.de which also hosted many more games based off of other cartoons. Toggo was a channel in Germany for kids, hence why it had other cartoon flash games (I'm not German, I just did my own research). I tried going on an archived version of the website, but nothing showed up. In the video, you can see that there are other Ruby Gloom flash games after the clip of the German one played, but these are seemingly fanmade dress-up games and not official, but still could be lost (I would not mind trying to find these as well). There was also another German Ruby Gloom flash game that is completely lost with only one screenshot, which I found through this post by flashstalgia on the Lost Media Wiki forum. The games were titled Rette Ruby's Tagebuch (which is the game we have footage of) and Ruby's Partyraum (which is completely lost). I tried going to an archived version of the Blinde-Kuh.de website that flashstalgia talked about in his post, and I ended up finding the Ruby's Partyraum thumbnail but when I tried clicking it, it didn't work. For some reason, I couldn't find the thumbnail of Rette Ruby's Tagebuch which was a bit weird. But I did end up finding a high quality screenshot of it on a japanese website. Finding out there was an actual video of a Ruby Gloom flash game that was actually playable and not just a little interactive thing (i.e. the 2004/2006 website era interactive flash things) was SO awesome because there's never been any footage of a playable Ruby Gloom game that isn't fanmade or only just interactive with no playable elements. I really hope these get found, and hopefully there are other official Ruby Gloom flash games or just games in general that get found as well.

I'm unsure if this qualifies as lost media but it is a song with no name and no identifiable source.

In the original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie there's a scene where the two leads are hiding from the aliens in an abandoned mine shaft when they hear beautiful music. They go out of the cave and investigate and discover it's just the aliens listening to the radio. The song is pretty simple, no lyrics just a woman vocalizing, acoustic guitar and a background harmony, but its one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and I've been trying to track down the source of it for years with no luck. I've located every version of the soundtrack including ones with bonus tracks and it's not on it. Shazam comes up with nothing but a song from a few years ago that samples directly from a movie. AI is no help so far.

I made a post about this on a different subreddit and seeing how it's been almost 4 years and all I've gotten is more people telling me they've been looking for it for 50+ years I think it now qualifies as lost media.

Song can be heard here: https://youtu.be/tyylUnr2qcQ?si=b8HuXm8Ov3xBBbzt&t=4288

I’m currently reading Bev Bevan’s (the drummer from ELO) book. On page 44, he describes how a man named John Elton made a film using their music as the soundtrack and starring members Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, and Bev. This was shortly after the release of their debut album in the early 70s (sometime between the album’s release in December 1971 and the departure of Roy Wood from the band in July 1972).

It took around two weeks to film in “the futuristic area of the Barbican in London.” This guy barely had a script together let alone a plot. The film was supposedly set in the year 2100. The costumes consisted of bus conductors’ uniforms and borrowed motorcycle helmets. Roy Wood didn’t even get a costume and had to supply his own.

One scene was described where Roy had to carry a blonde actress up a set of steps, and her dress fell open revealing her breasts accidentally, with Jeff and Bev walking behind as “police angels.”

“It was supposedly a film of political content with the music being used in a pseudo-intellectual way.”

Apparently when the band got to watch the final product they fell out of their seats laughing. As far as I know, the public has never seen this film. Searching for “John Elton film” and other similar things only brings up results of Elton John’s Rocketman. There was not a title given for the film in the book. I’d love to find out more about this film! I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know anything else about this?

Trying to hunt down Time Commanders (S1 + S2 primarily) in a better quality than is available, currently the episodes do exist but as very low quality VHS rips on Youtube (often with several minutes at the start/end clipped off). Have spoken with the original producer, production company and distributor company without success. Time Commanders was an early 2000s BBC Game Show based on the Rome: Total War game engine. Any help is appreciated, as far as I know there was never an official DVD/VHS release but it has been reshown over the years on TV so must exist somewhere. Core goal currently is to find a better quality/100% complete VHS copy to rip and upload this properly!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Commanders
https://youtu.be/vGGmA8KLsmM?si=Go94KCvilon3rmke

Season 1 YouTube Playlist

Season 2 YouTube Playlist

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMPi7OlnkOE

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mlr8yl40do

Lost Chopin waltz unearthed after almost 200 years George Wright BBC News

A new piece of music believed to be by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was written. The unknown waltz was unearthed in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The rare manuscript - dated between 1830 and 1835 - was discovered by curator Robinson McClellan while he was cataloguing new collections. He then worked with a leading Chopin expert to authenticate the score. It is not signed by Chopin, but the handwriting includes his distinctive bass clef.

The waltz has minor errors in rhythm and notation but Mr McClellan said he is sure that Chopin is behind it. "What we're most certain about is it is written in the hand of Chopin, paper that he wrote on himself in his own hand," he told BBC's Newshour. "What's not entirely sure is that it's music that he composed. "I feel about 98% sure, and many people who have heard it already feel in their gut this sounds like Chopin."

He continued: "There are atypical aspects of the music, the kind of stormy opening is a little surprising but not entirely out of character. "And then the melody really to me is where you feel that Chopin quality."

Superstar pianist Lang Lang has recorded the waltz for the New York Times, which broke the story. Chopin, who wrote mostly piano solos, died aged 39 in France in 1849. He was hounded by hallucinations during his relatively short life and probably had epilepsy, Spanish researchers believe.

Classical pianist Sir Stephen Hough, who performed at this year’s Last Night of the Proms and has recorded all of Chopin’s waltzes, describing him as his “favourite composer”. “He’s a composer that I feel very, very close to," he told the BBC. "He, to me, belongs with all the greats absolutely at the top of the pile. So, to find anything from someone you’ve revered in that way for so many years is thrilling.”

He believes this newly-revealed manuscript is likely to be Chopin’s work. “At first I felt a little doubtful about the authenticity because it seemed a little rough in places, it didn’t quite seem to be as fastidious as Chopin’s other compositions are," he said.

But he added it was "a little bit like coming across a sketch for a Keats poem that he hasn’t quite finished working out exactly the word order for, and there are a few spelling mistakes, but somehow you can still tell that it has that genius there".

But he does not think it is one of Chopin's "best waltzes", or that it is "one of his worst waltzes" either. "There’s quite a bit of juvenilia which Chopin kept in a drawer and never intended to publish, which was published after his death against his wishes, and this probably belongs in that drawer," he added.

Hello!

This has been about a 1 year effort on my part, I do know others are looking as well but there isn't really a "community" as such as its a bit niche.

The original video was privated, and there are many reasons why this happened, some of which would require a massive thread of the lore of poppy, but in a nutshell, it didn't fit her brand at the time. Anybody who is familiar with the 'poppy' brand knows she was known for her robotic appearance, and almost non human videos, this was realised right in the mist of all of that, and I think fans at the time didn't appreciate it.

Here is the original link to the video that is now privated; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEABfuBMYEQ

Here is what I have found so far.

The cover was uploaded sometime in 2015? (not really a confirmation on that) to Poppy's YouTube channel, first archive is 23rd April 2015, however there is something wrong with that capture, every time you try to access it, it redirects to a 2017 capture. Link is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170323202341/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEABfuBMYEQ

So none of the captures had archived the video, but there are other captures of other videos that has it in the watch next bar on the right.

Here is one of her videos called 'Thursdays are so boring', in the bar on the right the video can be seen; https://web.archive.org/web/20150422051005/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt8JxZH-FLE

A 15 second clip of the video was found, I'm not entirely sure who by, and I have been trying to find the person who found the clip but its a bit of a goose chase. Problem really is people were looking for this from 2015-2017, and a lot of poppy's fan base are kids, or were at the time, and lots said they had it because they wanted to look cool, and some were even scamming people out of money for it. See here on poppy's fandom, where someone links their PayPal (thankfully removed now) https://web.archive.org/web/20220405055214/https://poppy.fandom.com/wiki/Stolen_Dance

Here is the 15 second clip that was found; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkOfr4yji8 Its not original quality at all, which makes me believe it was ripped or screen recorded, as there's no way it was uploaded like that. Of course there is a chance its just a rip of a rip, but a little hope there I guess.

I've then found a forum of such, which is about Lana Del Ray, but the crossover between the two in the early 2010s was massive, and they were friends in real life from what I can find. Originally even the audio was lost but it was found by these people on the forum, and I'm guessing that's where the snippet came from as well. Lots of talk about where the video is and that they know people who have it but again, I think this is mostly just kids being kids, no real conclusive evidence anybody has the original video. Its a massive thread, I spent days going through this. http://lanaboards.com/topic/7746-poppy/#comments

Its probably useful to point out, 'poppy' used to go by the name 'that poppy' which could make a difference in search, but I'm not sure it would make the difference.

Before anybody says "this isnt lost media" it is, The song has been found but the video is still missing. It was once available and now its not. I want to find the video

I'm at a bit of a dead end now, I know its niche but I remember watching the video and loving the low quality effort of it all, takes me back to a happier time. If only I could go back and archive it myself!

Any help appreciated

I LOVE finding underground music. One day I stumbled across a band with 5 monthly listeners called "G The Band" (a very ungooglable name) and they had an album called "Young" released in 2010. One day, the album got removed from all streaming services and now there's very little evidence of the band EVER existing, which is quite sad. I find it crazy how their music was so widely accessible just a few months ago and now it's nowhere. They still have a spotify page and a live album from 2004, but not much else. My favourite song by them was called "Fueled By A Dream" and I'm DESPERATE to find it. Any help would be appreciated!

Spotify Profile: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UzmerNjofbOqykwl4i1qm?si=tTLKiOo7QF-jUgBumIMzJA

Link to the album in question (all tracks have been removed) https://open.spotify.com/album/04kziqoU8G1xPmVDTEF4v3?si=9VCOgFjGTWWPMeat4lmmzw

https://d.uguu.se/aTrpCpYM.mp3 Their song "Where The Northern Lights Are Born" (from the 2010 album - this is the only song I have saved)

In a flea market in New Jersey in the 1990s, my brother bought a bootleg video tape labelled JET LI KUNG FU CRAZY. It was the Union Market (now sadly gone: there's a Home Depot in its place), and every flea market in the 1990s had a sketchy dude with a box full of Hong Kong bootlegs.

This was a compilation of Jet Li fight scenes, set to industrial rock. The ladder fight from Once Upon a Time in China, set to Nine Inch Nails' March of the Pigs. Then a Bodyguard From Beijing fight, set to a Ministry song.

If anyone had another copy of this same bootleg, hit me up! The world needs to see how awesome this bootleg compilation was!

I remembered watching this video with David Attenborough talking about nepenthes and he was sitting next a dark pitcher of one, I have tried to find it on you tube but I can’t I did search it up on google but the full video doesn’t show up only a part of it( they were all on face book) I want to watch the whole thing again because it was one of the things that got me interested into those plants. The links for the face book things are here https://www.facebook.com/100078454478441/videos/david-attenborough-vs-a-deadly-plant-nature-bites/653612259399068/ and also what I searched to get it David Attenborough nepenthes YouTube vid. I just wanna watch the whole video, can yall please help me?

LOST + CUT Z-HOUSE YOUTUBE VIDEOS

I've been watching old Z House videos, which were a YouTuber house comprising of usually 5 "Call of duty: Zombies" centered channels, and noticed a lot of them are either significantly cut down or privated. They cut the videos in an extremely lazy way, making them practically unwatchable. The privated videos also don't need to be privated??

Example of a butchered video: Z house Nerf war 1

Example of a privated video: Z House Nerf war 2

I don't care about the controversy between them, I just want my Nostalgia back.

If anyone has these videos in full, PLEASE provide them, thank you.

About five years ago, I stumbled across a unique YouTube channel that focused on two completely different topics: Thomas the Tank Engine toys and black widow spiders. The creator, who I believe was Australian, had videos dedicated exclusively to each topic. Here’s what I remember:

• Toy hunting – Videos where he’d go to stores, checking out new Thomas the Tank Engine toys and related merchandise.
• Black widow content – Separate videos featuring a terrarium setup filled with black widow spiders, often displayed in a large glass container.

There was no overlap between the two subjects in individual videos; he kept each type of content separate but consistently focused only on those two topics. My memory is really fuzy since i didn't spoke too much english at the time but just enough to remember its existence.

Since discovering it, I haven’t been able to locate this channel despite extensive searches. I’ve tried using keywords related to both “Thomas the Tank Engine” and “black widow spiders” but haven’t found anything similar. I’m not sure if the channel has been deleted, if it’s hidden by YouTube’s algorithm, or if it changed direction entirely.

I've searched on YouTube using terms like “Australian Thomas the Tank Engine toys,” “black widow spider collection,” and combinations of these terms. I’ve tried searching more broadly to see if anyone else has mentioned this channel, or if there are similar creators. So far, I haven’t found anything that matches. I've also checked some forums and subreddits that discuss unusual YouTube channels, but still no luck.

Despite my searches, I haven't been able to locate this channel again, and I’m not sure if it's even still around. Does anyone remember this channel or have any details on where to find it? Any help or leads would be appreciated!

Virtual YouTuber Mint Castella read old game magazine articles on Twitch tonight and stumbled across some details on an arcade she used to visit called the Airtight Garage which used to be at a shopping center called the Metreon in San Francisco, California. (And yes, Airtight Garage got its name from the graphic novel by Jean Henri Gaston Giraud under his pseudonym Mœbius, and the arcade's architectural design was inspired by his work). She recalled the arcade had exclusive game titles including a capture the flag 3rd person shooter game called 'Quaternia: the Biolab.' It was composed of 31 arcade cabinets connected together for multiplayer gameplay and there appears to be little to no information on it, nor any public game files for emulation. The Airtight Garage was later closed then reopened with only one of the original exclusive arcade games (originally called Hyperbowl) under the name Portal One, Portal One closed in 2007 and relaunched once again as Tilt arcade which, has has been gone for some time. I'm not sure what else to say other than to provide what little primary/secondary sources discussing the game below:

The game had a whole website with detailed lore archived here- https://web.archive.org/web/20021005163733/http://www.quaternia.com/index.html

An old article from Gamespot describes the unveiling of the Airtight Garage in 2000 including details critiquing this game and others- https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-unveils-the-metreon/1100-2451086/

u/unoriginal_usernam3 left a comment about the game on this thread- https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/14w0pdx/who_remembers_the_glory_days_of_the_metreon_lets/

The game is also vaguely discussed here- https://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?p=570874

Tilt arcade selling off some arcade cabinet stock in 2009- https://www.destructoid.com/san-francisco-arcade-selling-their-arcade-cabinets/

I’ve been trying to find this short film, but I can’t seem to find it. It has Michael Pitt in it, and I want to watch it. It’s on Wikipedia and IMDB, and it has a little bit of a synopsis. The synopsis is “A young baseball player hangs out with a rebellious young girl after being humiliated during a game. The two knock back a few beers and smoke some joints while discussing how their lives could be different only if...” which is stated on IMDB. I’ve looked all over for somewhere to watch it, but with no luck. Hopefully some people who are better at this than me can find it.

recently i’ve been trying to find an anti-smoking advertisement that aired in Victoria, Australia around 2017-2019 (i’m quite sure i remember seeing it on TV in 2017, but i saw it a few times and can’t exactly put a finger on the year i saw it each time). it featured a woman in a bed hooked up to an oxygen machine struggling to breathe. at some point a man came in and checked on her and then walked out.

that’s about all i can remember for certain, there was a statistic about how smoking increases risk of stroke, but i can’t remember the exact statistic, i’m also not sure if there was any voiceover at the end or not. i remember seeing the Victorian cancer council logo on the ad, but i’ve searched through their website for their ad campaigns and can’t seem to find it.

i’ve searched high and low for it on youtube as well, but haven’t seen it anywhere. there’s a chance it’s on there but just overshadowed by the more well-known anti-smoking PSAs, because no matter what i search for or what words i use to describe the video, it keeps coming up with the same results.

I live in Melbourne, so the ad was definitely aired in Victoria but it could have been advertised elsewhere in Australia as well. A lot of smoking ads i’ve seen in Melbourne have been broadcast Australia-wide.

I’ve asked my family about it and my parents both definitely remember the ad, a few of my Mum’s friends remember it as well, so i’m definitely not imagining it or getting confused.

Do any Australian’s remember seeing this, or has anyone seen the ad somewhere on the internet? help appreciated

Back in the early 2000’s, my oldest brother, Chris, went on Dr.Phil with my mom because she wrote to the show about how he sagged his pants and was into rap music. I talked to my brother recently about it because we used to have it on VHS but my mom lost that VHS. I tried seeing I could email the show but can’t find exactly where. In the past I tried searching for it online but I suck at looking things up. Even my brother tried himself. The only clues I have are that he said they filmed it in January and he remembers the episode airing in April. He was about 14 (somewhere around freshman/sophomore year) which it’s likely in 2002-2003. He thinks 2001 but I don’t think the show was around 2001. Now the filming and airing date are from his memory and I love my brother but I know his memory can not always be the best. Though I know the years 2002-2003 are for sure the best to narrow it down. It’s a long shot asking online, but I’m desperate and want to find this for him to surprise him and also so we can all laugh at how he used to sag his pants (and still does sometimes lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUfc5bqgzlo&t=918s&ab_channel=VanishingAct

It's so odd to me that nobody is talking about this thing. I made a video about my search efforts, but practically nobody has seen that either, so I haven't found a single lead in the comments. I go into greater detail about the lost anime from about 0:00 to 7:05, but here's a brief summary:

The film is called "an interesting history of civilization: story of iron" (in Japanese: Tanoshii Bunmeishi: Tetsu Monogatari https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18259156/). It's from 1962, so it precedes the unofficial start of anime as a medium (that would be Astroboy from 1963). In other words, it's a very historically significant anime, worked on by one of the most respected directors of the artform. And yet, it's nowhere to be found. Note that Takahata was only assistant director, which is probably why it's been overlooked.

The company that produced it, along with Toei, was called Iwanami productions. They've made experimental documentaries and industrial commercials, which leads me to believe that the anime was funded by the steel industry as a pedagogical tool to teach children via animation. The director, Hajime Maeda, has very little written about him online as well. More info about the guy's past work is included past 7:05 in the video, but I doubt that it's relevant to this search.

A very blurry image can be seen on this website: https://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-films-of-isao-takahata-part-i-toei.html

That's the only visual element we've got. There are some leads: Iwanami productions might have some form of compilation CD or video that could include the anime, or it's been saved along with other documentaries in some form of archive. Though I can't find the source now, I've certainly read that there's a university in Japan that has archived old documentaries.

So what are your thoughts? I'm inexperienced in searching for lost media, so I can't really say what the best approach would be. And I'm not just posturing here: I do really think that this thing is historically important.

I just watched S03 EP01 of The Osbournes (MTV reality show), which is called "The Show Must Go Oz!!!", and found out about existence of lost spooky special from The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated talk show).
Sharon asks Ozzy (her husband) to co-host the show. Other guests included Shannen Doherty and Dennis Rodman.

Blabbermouth tellin me that episode is called "Halloween Howl", and it was aired on the WB network, October 31, 2003. There was some videos with tribute, behind-the-scenes and outtakes, but it completely lost. All that known about this special - these links with small headlines above, and backstage from "The Show Must Go Oz!!!" at 12:16 minute.