In 1975 Margaret Hamilton appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The theme of the episode was the difference between real and make believe. It was explained to the children watching that Margaret Hamilton wasn't really a which, she just pretended to be one in a movie. The episode was Episode 1452.
Christine's story is heartbreaking with the added audio. I understand not wanting to broadcast it and respecting the family's wishes but... I can't help but think it may have had a profound impact on journalism if it had been more known and continued to be remembered. Her voice and protest was silenced and it makes me quite sad. I've certainly never heard of her and I feel every high schooler probably should when learning about journalistic and writing integrity, along side the history of propaganda and media similar to yellow journalism taught in american history classes.
It's never a good idea to broadcast a suicide. This individual took the easy way, instead of addressing and accepting certain realities. This is not what we should be encouraging...and certainly not broadcasting to random audiences. Doing it publically was a selfish act. Accept and get help...be humble.
@@derrickcox7761 how is it the easy way out? If you're a Christian it's definitely the worst and even if you are an atheist,could you honestly even imagine how it would be to pull a trigger on yourself? Nah, "easy way out", is the easiest way for others to not bother thinking about it any further in depth., Also what does it say about life in general if that is the "easy way"?
@@allenslayman4272 People generally commit suicide to escape physical, emotional pain. people who set their hearts on riches, for example, then lose everything...find it easier to jump out a window than to address their own character flaws. They based their life on false perceptions that they refuse to address. Also, this woman didn't think about the impact on people who would witness her so-called solution. (remember she was cheerful before her decision) sounds like she gave up rather than do the hard work of counseling. What it says about life is don't expect it to be easy all the time. No one escapes their own flaws, weaknesses, and poor decisions. But if you change, which requires faith, life can become better. Some suicide is necessary or acceptable, in war or terminal illness, depending on person and circumstance. However, that is a private, not a public matter.
Back in the 1960's, my mom was part of an acting troupe in Buffalo, N.Y. named "Weekend Playhouse". Every weekend, the troupe would perform a different play, live, on what was the equivalent of "cable access" television. The troupe would get together in the local public television station's studio, do one read- through of that week's selected play, and then perform it on live television. I'm fairly certain that the television station filmed the plays, and kept copies of the episodes. These would probably have been on celluloid film, although I never researched the fate of the tapes. The other actors in the troupe were all impressed with mom's talent and her star- quality good looks (mom was a petite, dark- haired Italian beauty) and got her invited to attend the Lee Strasberg acting clinic in Manhattan. So mom packed up my siblings and I, (we were not even kindergarten age) rented a flat in Brooklyn, and took the IRT to Manhattan every weekday to the acting school. Mom never landed any roles on the big screen, but did a small bit of "dinner theater" type acting, and passed in 2009. I would almost give a kidney to see the old films of mom acting when I was four years old. (if they still exist).
I have a friend who accidentally recorded a basketball game over his wedding tape. I think recording over the moon landing might be bad enough to trump his mistake. Though it was the game where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in the last 9 seconds, so even his wife had to admit it was a good game. lol
A large number of episodes of the original Doctor Who TV show are missing, and might make a good segment for a followup episode. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
Oh there are tons of examples, either of intentional destruction or being left to decay. According to estimates by the Library of Congress, 70% of silent-era films have been lost and less than 20% of those are the whole film. That isn’t including talkies, television archives, personal home videos, etc…
There's also the famous lost Rescue 911 segment: Oregon Baby Fire Rescue that was only aired once back in 1989 and was never broadcast again, no one knows exactly why this happened but the most realistic explanation is that the fire was re-investigated after the episode aired and the father featured in the story actually set the fire by either cutting the power cord for the space heater or by rigging the electrical outlet too short out and start the fire.
When the fourth season of the Avengers went into production, Diana Rigg wasn't Mrs. Peel. An actress called Elizabeth Shepherd originally had the part. Her version of the character had a fighting suit that involved wearing a single black glove. But after one and a half episode were filmed - the murder market and the town of no return- the producers decided to recast. And the rest is history. Brian Clemens of the show once said the footage of this version must still exist. In a vault somewhere. Then there's the greatest ever episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The Final Sacrifice. Featuring the immortal action hero Zap Rowsdower. Director of the movie Titus Grenadius had made it as a student film. But is now an award winning cinematographer. So didn't want anyone reminded of his earlier efforts. So he withdrew the rights to it. Thus the episode is stuck in limbo. It isn't on streaming and an early noughties region one dvd has been long since deleted. Shame really because although it was on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 it's actually quite a good film for what it is. People do upload copies to you tube occasionally which hang around for a short while before being taken down. I have been lucky enough to see one of those twice in as many years. If anyone has a copy, would you mind doing it again? Thanks. Also: in 1969 the bbc aired a science fiction show called Counterstrike. Only lasted ten episodes, and one of the last things they made in black and white. Aliens are inflitrating Earth. One humanoid alien is sent to stop them. One episode, involving a woman in a remote village being accused of being a witch was pulled before transmission and never got aired. I would imagine it's probably since been wiped, but who knows? Talking of Mystery Science Theatre 3000: one of it's earliest episodes from the days when it was a cable show On the channel Ktma and filmed for two hundred and fifty dollars an episode, Fugitive Alien Two, no longer exists. All that season only survived in the form on VHS people recorded at home. Two other early episodes only turned up a few years back. All those that do exist can be found on you tube. But that one seems to be gone. Unless someone has a copy...
The "live" broadcast method used for the moon landing was used for a long time to provide live sports on tv. They simply didn't have the technology to convert the received broadcast signal, convert it to a television signal and broadcast that to homes. Instead, they aimed a studio camera at a high definition screen and broadcast that feed. This is why live tv back in the day looked so fuzzy and how the commentators seemed to have the best eyes in the world, as they relied on the original feed from the camera on location, instead of the studio version.
Christine Chubbuck's story deserves a video on one of Simon's many channels. It's so damn tragic and the fact that this is the first time hearing about it is a shame- her story really needs to be told, more so for how to look out for signs of severe depression in our friends and families. It reminds me of the PA legislator that killed himself live on air but that was more recent, comparatively speaking.
@@orbtastic Grim indeed. I watched it after watching a video that said not to watch it. Having never been exposed to someone getting shot where and how he got shot, I was pretty disturbed.
Budd wasn't exactly a similar situation, he was effectively the victim of political/character assassination. Accused of a bunch of stuff that probably wasn't necessarily true and backed into a corner about to lose everything he shot himself while still in office and on live tv so that his benefits couldn't be legally taken from his family or something to that effect. At least that's the story I've heard whenever he's mentioned, he basically sacrificed himself on live TV so that his family could survive without him instead of taking the fall and them losing everything and as far as I know he died an innocent man.
Accused of a bunch of crimes that he absolutely committed and was given multiple chances to handle things in a way that would reduce the media/public microscope on his loved ones and chose not to do so in favor of an on air suicide so his family could collect his penaion* you mean.
I've heard the story of Christine Chubbock before (probably via the Whistlerverse), but just hearing her voice, and knowing what happened next, it has tears rolling down my face, for her to feel so bad about her life and the way the media was going (and of course, did go), to take it on live TV like that, it's so heartbreaking... :(
I watched that Sesame Street episode as a 3yo and had witch dreams for a month. Never told my parents. Wasn’t one of the families who complained. I was in Canada and the Canadian version made it to air at least once more. I love Margaret Hamilton now.
It was thought that copies of "At Last, It's the 1948 Show" that a pre- Monty Python John Cleese and Graham Chapman wrote and performed on were lost, but copies were found in Sweden some years ago, and all are now available on RUclips. Good viewing, and interesting from the perspective of the evolution of their sketch comedy. Also, the first airing of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch-- with Marty Feldman as one of the performers.
The sadder thing is theres probably long lost recordings that had been or still are sitting in private collections from someone having work at a network or known someone who did and these items sit there to degrade until the person passes away then whoever inherits this collection would likely view it as old garbage media to be disposed of without even giving it a second though
I'm pretty ADHD and a bit ASD so my nightly routine at this point is to start my bedtime playlist with at least one video by the coffee'd up Simon and chums, then ease off into my other interests, which is mostly academic stuff boring to others but interesting to me, or to get my imagination fired up, some SCP universe stuff. For those I love the Dr Bob and SCP Explained channels the most.
These days it's very rare for me to hear a story online that I haven't heard some inkling of before, but I've never heard about this live broadcasted un-aliving.
Perhaps you can answer this lost media question - The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston had a scene that my sister and I remember seeing when the movie aired on TV 45 years or so ago but has not appeared in any VHS or DVD version of the movie, including the anniversary edition. To ensure we weren't dreaming it up, my sister actually bought a copy of an original script to verify that, yes indeed, the scene was there when the movie was shot. The 'lost scene' is a long declaration of love between Moses and Nefretiri after he was arrested when Ramses brings Nefretiri to the dungeon to say goodbye. There is a very abbreviated version of this meeting in current media, but not the full scene. Any idea of what happened to it and why it was chopped out?
In Australia there was a legendary music show called Count Down, which featured music videos and live performances. The first series from 1974 was taped over by the ABC to save costs.
Odd thing, as a American, I have oddly heard about that show. Adam Hills was on "8 out of 10 cats does countdown and he mentioned that the Aus. version of Countdown was not called Countdown because of the very show your talking about. Useless information, but where else am I going to make use of that fact and get the youtube clip out of my head :D
The irony of them not showing an episode about divorce when they did an episode about 9:11 is... beyond amusing. Also you could have done some stories on the lost episodes of doctor who that were later found again in the basement of a random TV station in South Africa... And talked about the other episodes that were deleted because the BBC was stupid back when they 1st aired them and didn't think they were commercially relevant to be saved for archiving.
If they don't show the episode of Snuffy's parents getting a divorce then it didn't happen, but 9/11 happened in the real life even if they don't talk about it.
@@Tenma2411 There was also they would write the tapes over because at that time they legitimately thought that archiving this wouldn't matter at all. They only archived commercially successful shows
During the 1970's a public information film was shown on UK TV it concerned railway safety and was titled "The Finishing Line", it's something that I'll never forget as it traumatised me as a kid. It's not exactly a piece of lost media although it's almost impossible to find these days, it was briefly up on youtube but has since disappeared again. The plot of the film is based around the idea of a school sports day where children partake in various dangerous events on a railway line such as throwing bricks through the windows of passing trains. It culminates in a final event that depicts teams of kids walking into a railway tunnel into the path of an oncoming train and ends with adults walking into the tunnel and carrying out the bodies of the dead children and laying them out on the line. Absolutely horrific stuff, especially if you saw this when you were young and this was shown at teatime. The 1970's were an absolutely crazy time where it seemed like almost anything was acceptable, I still think about this film to this very day, it really left it's mark on me.
@@reachandler3655 Yeah I thought the same until I started doing a little research, I always thought it was some kind of childhood nightmare or something.
I think Guru Larry covered that video a while back. I recall watching it and thinking that Britains were hard core for making kids watch stuff like that back then.
@@Froggievilleus Yeah you're right I just checked out his video on it, it's almost laughable to watch it now but I think this was shown when I was about 7 years old, it was far more disturbing back then.
My Father and his parents woke me and my sister up and had us come watch the Apollo 11 landing. Yeah I’m older but it’s something I’ll always remember and I’m glad my family wanted me to see it.
I have a strong suspicion the scientists at NASA definitely suggested keeping a high rez copy would be a good idea, but the account in charge went "but we'd rather reuse the tape $$"
Re the moon pics... Neil took a few still shots with his own camera of Buzz climbing down the ladder. He kept the negatives and eventually gave them to... ...my Dad, who made a nice display (dad was a graphic artist who knew ppl) and hung on our wall, with Neil's inscription to my father under it. I grew up with this thing on our wall, never really knowing how important it was... Times got tight and the photos and negatives got sold for about 8k a few years back, but I'll remember those shots forever.
Another curious case of Lost Media can be found in the 1976 BBC mini-series "I, Claudius". At the end of one episode, the Emperor Caligula cuts open the womb of his incestuous sister Drusilla with a knife and devours their unborn child, imitating the classic tale in which the god Saturn devours his children to prevent them from turning against him. Unfortunately, the most violent parts of the scene were cut in subsequent broadcasts for being too violent for the time. These edited shots were lost forever, which is a real shame
I thought for sure you would mention Super Bowl 1. Supposedly there is only one known copy of it by some guy with a fancy pre-VCR recording device, as the NFL didn't think it was important to record it at the time.
I saw the Margaret Hamilton episode, and I agree it should not have been aired. Though the episode was about respect and the virtue of self-control, and even standing up to a bully, it was intense. And in _The Wizard of Oz,_ the witch was already destroyed. I think that in itself would make her reprise scary. I had seen her on _Mister Rogers Neighborhood_ as herself, and on the show she talked with Fred Rogers about how scary the witch might have been to children. In the show, she pulled out the costume and put it on with Mr. Rogers' help, and she even said a few lines at his request. They talked about how people seem to change when they put on a costume, but they are people like everyone else. They took the costume off before she left to show she was the same Margaret Hamilton as before. I can see how the story for Sesame Street can scare kids. (It startled me!) There are a lot of kids watching that might not have developed to understand about adult pretend. Even all the characters on Sesame Street are pretend, even the real people. They even framed one or more episodes around Mr Hooper the original shop owner when he died in real life. That was done sensitively and well.
I don't know how people can laugh and be happy. People I know are so clueless about what it's like in the real world, where I've tried all my life to succeed. Most of them have barely worked a straight week in their lives, and they laugh and joke about this, and that, while seeing me as the pariah. Someone who destroys their illusionary view of some future where everything's gonna be okay. I've tried my hardest, all my life to build something I could genuinely be happy about. And this has all taught me that their is no way for people like me to succeed. No matter how hard I struggle, no matter what I achieve, no matter who I help along the way, I will never receive any type of advancement, or recognition for anything. I can't laugh and pretend everything is alright, because I know from experience that everything is not alright. There is no hope. I'm gonna die isolated, penniless, and alone. And so are they. They just haven't tried yet, and most probably never will, or will never need to.
Christine may have not gotten the video shown the way she wanted, but Budd Dwyer did, and even the band Filter made a song about it called 'Hey Man Nice Shot'. Most people who liked that song when it came out had no idea what it was actually about. Budd Dwyer's video is still available on YT and other places.
There was a British comedy series called Hardwick House, anarchic and very dark humour. A full series of, I think, 6 episodes was made, but it was pulled after 2, never to be seen again. Said to have been ordered destroyed, but that copies do still exist.
Their were a lot of episodes missing as lost media from the short lived CN show Out of Jimmy’s Head which itself was based on the very unpopular Reanimated hybrid movie. The reason for the lost media episodes is because the short lived Cartoon Network series was cancelled as a consequence of the infamous writers guild strike of 2008.
I really felt like Sesame Street should have tackled the concept of divorce differently, and in two parts. They should have introduced the conversation with a new character, one that was already a child of divorce who had adjusted well to it, and who had a balanced, healthy relationship with both parents. They could then have had an existing character go through the situation of having their parents divorce, while having the other character there as support and a reminder that there's a next step for families going through divorce. Start with an example of how the positive outcome is possible, then show what had to be worked through in order to reach it.
I remember watching original episodes of Sesame Street. Every episode seemed to have an importance that you could feel. It felt like the lesson you were learning was important and absolute. I remember how the "funny parts" of the show seemed to be just breaks in the lesson we were learning. I can see how these un-aired episodes would have affected kids. Divorce for one's parents was a new thing back then, and was terrifying. Pulling that episode, especially if the wrong lesson was learned, probably was a good idea. It probably would have traumatized me.
As a wee lad I saw the infamous Wicked Witch Sesame Street episode and I didn't think it was scary at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure I thought it was cool that she was there.
Harry Greb MW/LHW champion was filmed only once over 200 fights. Greb vs Tunney I, May 23rd 1922 for the American LHW Championship. There are only two frames of this fight remaining, attached to a copyright application (thus confirming its existence). There is no proof that the film was ever viewed by the public but may have been. But because there is no other footage of the Great Harry Greb in a prize fight, this lost film has become the Holy Grail of fight films.
Then there was the famous unaired broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show" in June 1971, when organic food promoter Jerome Rodale bragged that he would live to be 100, but suffered a fatal heart attack after the interview, while sitting on the couch during Cavett's interview with Pete Hamill. The show, taped a few hours before its scheduled broadcast, was never shown. Cavett reportedly still has the tape in his private collection.
@@sydhenderson6753 yes, but that has been lost as well. And technically it was audio on video. I guess it's not so mysterious as to what happened to it, unless people think that woman didn't follow Verner hertzog advice
Every football fan from 1989 recalls the Hillsborough disaster. Strange that the South Yorkshire police video tapes taken from the police control centre, right next to the Liverpool fans! Strange that this real time view of what the police were seeing in real time went missing???? Shame it took three decades for the full truth to emerge? Strange that the police tapes did not surface
Yeah, early photographic film (wasn't completely replaced by a safer alternative until the 1950s) was basically the same stuff as artillery propellant, and after awhile it starts decaying and releasing nitric acid and heat, which speeds up the decay of the rest, if the heat produced by decay doesn't start a fire first (yes, it can spontaneously combust).
@@DeliveryMcGee Yes! Over the years MILES & MILES of old film have spontainously burst into flames. Unstable, old nitrate film is basically an explosive!
Snuffy's parents getting a divorce probably had the fuzzy guy saying the same things the kids did and getting reassured and treated well. Kids are really monkey see, monkey do at that age - even toddlers will flop down from standing still, cry like they are hurt, and then suddenly stop and start running around until they see an adult they can flop down and cry in front of. We teach em to be little people, they start out as something way closer to an angry drunken Tomodachi.
Snuffy’s parents get a divorce is the most interesting lost episode media for me because there’s never been any divorces in my family for multiple generations so I never had to live in that situation. Funny cause for example, my parents met in the Navy during the 90’s and after 2 months they got married. My mom got pregnant with my sister and also as well, to stay on the same ship they had to get/be married to each other. They got married on Christmas Eve. It’s been a happy marriage ever since. Having divorced parents is so common nowadays. I always feel like my family is the odd one out.
You could probably do another video just on WWE "lost" media. There's the fall that killed Owen Hart in '99 on a PPV. The fall didn't air on the show itself but there is raw footage from the broadcast that is locked in their headquarters labeled "Never to be copied or aired". There is the Smackdown episode where Darren Drozdov was paralyzed from the neck down by a move gone wrong. The show was taped at the time so they edited that part out. Finally, most recent (as far as I know) is the Chris Benoit tribute episode of Monday Night Raw. Allegedly, WWE didn't know all the details before they went ahead with it and only found out after it aired.
1:38 I was not quite two years old when the moon landing took pace and I have no memory of where I was. I expect I was in my crib sleeping but I don't explicitly remember it.
I've seen the video of the news lady's suicide.... A friend of mine had it and I have no idea how he got it, but yeah... I saw it and I wish I hadn't...
I hope the random series of events that lost the original moon landing footage is on here. To some people, random happenstance equals proof of insane conspiracy. Also hope Dr Who early episodes is on here.
I remember watching the news story at the time and they cut away before the shot. A few years ago I found the unedited segment online. Wow. Don’t want to see it again.
this missed one things people didn't think about preserving myspace is the perfect example there are a good chunk of games that do not get a single mention zero documented evidence other the maybe something in a company's files or computers that it existed and even the most popular games have few pictures and outside of old pictures of top myspace games very few mentions of it there are also many songs that been completely lost and im sure a good number of things that were just never preserved it is just shocking for something that were so big at one point and so recent really has very little of things on it preserved
@@ThatWriterKevin sorry i meant more when listing the types of lost media that it did not list things people didn't think to preserve i get how everything cant be put in a video and i do feel with more things movie to being only data while it does allow so much to be preserve it also might also lead things to be completely lost from sites that people always though would be there
The Black Cauldron, Disney, 1985. I watched this a few years ago with no knowledge or preconceptions regarding the film. So weird and rushed seemed the climax, I researched online to fine out why it seemed so disjointed. The reason, after a test screening which resulted in a lot of upset children, the studio chairman ordered approximately 12-minutes of footage be removed from the film, and this 12 minutes have not been made available to the general public ever since! I think hacking the film down like that ruined it. At best, the pacing was obviously well off - I could certainly see something was amiss! A Far better option might have been to raise the certificate rating to, say, a 12? Anyhow, I think it's about time we had a director's cut - the perfect thing for a remastered Blu ray edition?
Since the moon landing footage was seen worldwide, I wonder if any broadcast in PAL or SECAM was produced filming the original material as well, or by filming the (already inferior) NTSC broadcast...
Not sure how true this is, but I saw somewhere that NASA has actually "thrown out" all the original design schematics for the Shuttle. So, even if they wanted to make a new one, they'd have to start from scratch. Obviously there are various design elements very well documented, but wiring, fuses, circuits etc have all been lost. I'm reasonable sure that today they would follow the Russian and Chinese models and have un-manned "drone" shuttles anyway, but it's both scary and disappointing to know that they actually can't build one any more. The designs were supposedly thrown out during a huge clear-out at NASA, and everyone simply thought everyone else had the original documents... so they ALL threw them out. As I say, thats unconfirmed, but certainly sounds viable...
If I remember correctly, the most widely used footage of the first moon landing was filmed by Buzz Aldrin with his own personal camera from inside the lunar module, through the porthole. It turned out to be the highest quality footage of the whole event, so it is the footage that most people are familiar with. But, since it was recorded with just a simple handheld camera (Super 8, if I'm not mistaken) it wasn't able to be shown until they were able to get back to Earth and Buzz was able to get it developed.
The movie cameras used were hardly personal cameras, nor were the super 8. You think NASA would send a bargain-basement movie camera on a moon mission??
NTSC is 525 total lines, with 480 lines visible. PAL is 625 total lines with 576 lines visible. The "extra" lines are called "overscan" lines. Often they carried non-picture data such as Closed Captioning.
I recall a strange TV experience in 2003 watching a rerun of Whose Line is it Anyway (UK) on The Comedy Channel (in Canada) at 1 or 2pm. There was a segment where they had to improv a voice-over for a random clip, but the video was a whole bunch of nudists running all around around. You could see absolutely everything. There was no censoring at all. Searching for it online, I could never find any evidence of such an episode existing. And the idea of a show like Whose Line showing full frontal male and female nudity is just bizarre. Especially on the Canadian equivalent of Comedy Central... in the middle of the day. Nothing about it adds up. It makes about as much sense as a dream. But I know it wasn't a dream. It wasn't like somebody snuck this onto the broadcast like the Flintstones porno rumour, either. The nude clip was playing on a screen in the show and Ryan, and I think Colin were commenting on it. Though I can't remember what they said, I was more surprised at what I was seeing and trying to make sense of it.
just as the original star wars films are not available anymore, only the remastered- reedited versions, i was never a fan, but i still acknowledge the originals were superior to the reedited crap now.
@@AtheistOrphan That wasn't by design. I went with the ones that I thought would have the broadest appeal for the hopefully first installment. Doctor Who has a fanatical fanbase for sure, but I don't think it's as far reaching as something like Sesame Street or the Moon Landing
Interesting that Sesame Street tried to make an episode about divorce. The lesson there is that you just simply can not make divorce OK with the children. That is a narcissistic fantasy.
The lost media I wish I could see is the dread Pirate Roberts episode of casual criminalist that was pulled because the new writer was plagiarising. Also the business blaze episode that could get a hit put out on simon 😂
The politician R. Budd Dwyer also killed himself on TV...walked into a press conference with a paper bag in his hand. Turned out it had a gun in it, and he pulled it out and blew a hole in his head. I remember it like it was yesterday.
In 1975 Margaret Hamilton appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The theme of the episode was the difference between real and make believe. It was explained to the children watching that Margaret Hamilton wasn't really a which, she just pretended to be one in a movie.
The episode was Episode 1452.
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Honestly lady lane was scarier than any wicked witch scene lol
Mr. Rogers was the true OG.
I saw a clip of that on RUclips! Margaret Hamilton was a class act!
Christine's story is heartbreaking with the added audio. I understand not wanting to broadcast it and respecting the family's wishes but... I can't help but think it may have had a profound impact on journalism if it had been more known and continued to be remembered. Her voice and protest was silenced and it makes me quite sad. I've certainly never heard of her and I feel every high schooler probably should when learning about journalistic and writing integrity, along side the history of propaganda and media similar to yellow journalism taught in american history classes.
I haven't even started the video, but I know to whom you refer. Utter tragedy.
It's never a good idea to broadcast a suicide. This individual took the easy way, instead of addressing and accepting certain realities. This is not what we should be encouraging...and certainly not broadcasting to random audiences. Doing it publically was a selfish act. Accept and get help...be humble.
@@derrickcox7761 this is ignorant, insensitive, and frankly wrong.
@@derrickcox7761 how is it the easy way out? If you're a Christian it's definitely the worst and even if you are an atheist,could you honestly even imagine how it would be to pull a trigger on yourself? Nah, "easy way out", is the easiest way for others to not bother thinking about it any further in depth., Also what does it say about life in general if that is the "easy way"?
@@allenslayman4272 People generally commit suicide to escape physical, emotional pain. people who set their hearts on riches, for example, then lose everything...find it easier to jump out a window than to address their own character flaws. They based their life on false perceptions that they refuse to address. Also, this woman didn't think about the impact on people who would witness her so-called solution. (remember she was cheerful before her decision) sounds like she gave up rather than do the hard work of counseling. What it says about life is don't expect it to be easy all the time. No one escapes their own flaws, weaknesses, and poor decisions. But if you change, which requires faith, life can become better. Some suicide is necessary or acceptable, in war or terminal illness, depending on person and circumstance. However, that is a private, not a public matter.
Back in the 1960's, my mom was part of an acting troupe in Buffalo, N.Y. named "Weekend Playhouse". Every weekend, the troupe would perform a different play, live, on what was the equivalent of "cable access" television. The troupe would get together in the local public television station's studio, do one read- through of that week's selected play, and then perform it on live television. I'm fairly certain that the television station filmed the plays, and kept copies of the episodes. These would probably have been on celluloid film, although I never researched the fate of the tapes. The other actors in the troupe were all impressed with mom's talent and her star- quality good looks (mom was a petite, dark- haired Italian beauty) and got her invited to attend the Lee Strasberg acting clinic in Manhattan. So mom packed up my siblings and I, (we were not even kindergarten age) rented a flat in Brooklyn, and took the IRT to Manhattan every weekday to the acting school. Mom never landed any roles on the big screen, but did a small bit of "dinner theater" type acting, and passed in 2009. I would almost give a kidney to see the old films of mom acting when I was four years old. (if they still exist).
Wow that lie got you so much attention 🙄
@@Jason-tz7ir What lie?
I have a friend who accidentally recorded a basketball game over his wedding tape. I think recording over the moon landing might be bad enough to trump his mistake. Though it was the game where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in the last 9 seconds, so even his wife had to admit it was a good game. lol
@Godsabitch uhhhhhh may 7, 1995
Its even on yt. Youre not very 💡
@Godsabitch Stranger things have, cynical one
@Godsabitch hey, Reggie Miller really did score 8 points in the last 9 seconds.
I remember that game! Fucking amazing!
If it's an important tape, you pull the tab so you don't accidentally record nothing over it
Hey Side Projects, if you find any more examples like these, be sure to make a "Part 2". This was very interesting.
A large number of episodes of the original Doctor Who TV show are missing, and might make a good segment for a followup episode.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
Oh there are tons of examples, either of intentional destruction or being left to decay. According to estimates by the Library of Congress, 70% of silent-era films have been lost and less than 20% of those are the whole film. That isn’t including talkies, television archives, personal home videos, etc…
There's also the famous lost Rescue 911 segment: Oregon Baby Fire Rescue that was only aired once back in 1989 and was never broadcast again, no one knows exactly why this happened but the most realistic explanation is that the fire was re-investigated after the episode aired and the father featured in the story actually set the fire by either cutting the power cord for the space heater or by rigging the electrical outlet too short out and start the fire.
When the fourth season of the Avengers went into production, Diana Rigg wasn't Mrs. Peel. An actress called Elizabeth Shepherd originally had the part. Her version of the character had a fighting suit that involved wearing a single black glove. But after one and a half episode were filmed - the murder market and the town of no return- the producers decided to recast. And the rest is history. Brian Clemens of the show once said the footage of this version must still exist. In a vault somewhere.
Then there's the greatest ever episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The Final Sacrifice. Featuring the immortal action hero Zap Rowsdower. Director of the movie Titus Grenadius had made it as a student film. But is now an award winning cinematographer. So didn't want anyone reminded of his earlier efforts. So he withdrew the rights to it. Thus the episode is stuck in limbo. It isn't on streaming and an early noughties region one dvd has been long since deleted. Shame really because although it was on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 it's actually quite a good film for what it is. People do upload copies to you tube occasionally which hang around for a short while before being taken down. I have been lucky enough to see one of those twice in as many years. If anyone has a copy, would you mind doing it again? Thanks.
Also: in 1969 the bbc aired a science fiction show called Counterstrike. Only lasted ten episodes, and one of the last things they made in black and white. Aliens are inflitrating Earth. One humanoid alien is sent to stop them. One episode, involving a woman in a remote village being accused of being a witch was pulled before transmission and never got aired. I would imagine it's probably since been wiped, but who knows?
Talking of Mystery Science Theatre 3000: one of it's earliest episodes from the days when it was a cable show On the channel Ktma and filmed for two hundred and fifty dollars an episode, Fugitive Alien Two, no longer exists. All that season only survived in the form on VHS people recorded at home. Two other early episodes only turned up a few years back. All those that do exist can be found on you tube. But that one seems to be gone. Unless someone has a copy...
The "live" broadcast method used for the moon landing was used for a long time to provide live sports on tv. They simply didn't have the technology to convert the received broadcast signal, convert it to a television signal and broadcast that to homes. Instead, they aimed a studio camera at a high definition screen and broadcast that feed.
This is why live tv back in the day looked so fuzzy and how the commentators seemed to have the best eyes in the world, as they relied on the original feed from the camera on location, instead of the studio version.
I have never heard of Christine Chubbuck. and Damn that is.....heart wrenching
Christine Chubbuck's story deserves a video on one of Simon's many channels. It's so damn tragic and the fact that this is the first time hearing about it is a shame- her story really needs to be told, more so for how to look out for signs of severe depression in our friends and families. It reminds me of the PA legislator that killed himself live on air but that was more recent, comparatively speaking.
Budd Dwyer, grim viewing.
@@orbtastic Grim indeed. I watched it after watching a video that said not to watch it. Having never been exposed to someone getting shot where and how he got shot, I was pretty disturbed.
Fucking selfish to scar the viewers by imposing your gory death on them.
Budd wasn't exactly a similar situation, he was effectively the victim of political/character assassination. Accused of a bunch of stuff that probably wasn't necessarily true and backed into a corner about to lose everything he shot himself while still in office and on live tv so that his benefits couldn't be legally taken from his family or something to that effect.
At least that's the story I've heard whenever he's mentioned, he basically sacrificed himself on live TV so that his family could survive without him instead of taking the fall and them losing everything and as far as I know he died an innocent man.
Accused of a bunch of crimes that he absolutely committed and was given multiple chances to handle things in a way that would reduce the media/public microscope on his loved ones and chose not to do so in favor of an on air suicide so his family could collect his penaion* you mean.
I've heard the story of Christine Chubbock before (probably via the Whistlerverse), but just hearing her voice, and knowing what happened next, it has tears rolling down my face, for her to feel so bad about her life and the way the media was going (and of course, did go), to take it on live TV like that, it's so heartbreaking... :(
Yeah, definitely did not expect the editor to actually put the audio in. At least it faded out before the gunshot
@@ThatWriterKevin Even just the implication that it happened is enough, it really is so very sad...
The MSM has gone far beyond what Christine presaged. These days the MSM seems only capable of peddling untruths and gaslighting.
Imagine lying about crying...
You guys keep me so busy watching videos. Thanks Simon and crew
And reading the comments.
I watched that Sesame Street episode as a 3yo and had witch dreams for a month. Never told my parents. Wasn’t one of the families who complained. I was in Canada and the Canadian version made it to air at least once more. I love Margaret Hamilton now.
By all accounts she was a wonderful person who loved children, and not for dinner.
It was thought that copies of "At Last, It's the 1948 Show" that a pre- Monty Python John Cleese and Graham Chapman wrote and performed on were lost, but copies were found in Sweden some years ago, and all are now available on RUclips. Good viewing, and interesting from the perspective of the evolution of their sketch comedy. Also, the first airing of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch-- with Marty Feldman as one of the performers.
Lol I loved those 4. Talking about how many in a room, what jobs they had, what they ate.
And Tim Brooke-Taylor.
The sadder thing is theres probably long lost recordings that had been or still are sitting in private collections from someone having work at a network or known someone who did and these items sit there to degrade until the person passes away then whoever inherits this collection would likely view it as old garbage media to be disposed of without even giving it a second though
I'm pretty ADHD and a bit ASD so my nightly routine at this point is to start my bedtime playlist with at least one video by the coffee'd up Simon and chums, then ease off into my other interests, which is mostly academic stuff boring to others but interesting to me, or to get my imagination fired up, some SCP universe stuff. For those I love the Dr Bob and SCP Explained channels the most.
These days it's very rare for me to hear a story online that I haven't heard some inkling of before, but I've never heard about this live broadcasted un-aliving.
Can you do one about the most sought after Lost Movies (London After Midnight, Cleopatra (1917), etc.?
Perhaps you can answer this lost media question - The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston had a scene that my sister and I remember seeing when the movie aired on TV 45 years or so ago but has not appeared in any VHS or DVD version of the movie, including the anniversary edition. To ensure we weren't dreaming it up, my sister actually bought a copy of an original script to verify that, yes indeed, the scene was there when the movie was shot. The 'lost scene' is a long declaration of love between Moses and Nefretiri after he was arrested when Ramses brings Nefretiri to the dungeon to say goodbye. There is a very abbreviated version of this meeting in current media, but not the full scene. Any idea of what happened to it and why it was chopped out?
In Australia there was a legendary music show called Count Down, which featured music videos and live performances. The first series from 1974 was taped over by the ABC to save costs.
Odd thing, as a American, I have oddly heard about that show. Adam Hills was on "8 out of 10 cats does countdown and he mentioned that the Aus. version of Countdown was not called Countdown because of the very show your talking about. Useless information, but where else am I going to make use of that fact and get the youtube clip out of my head :D
The irony of them not showing an episode about divorce when they did an episode about 9:11 is... beyond amusing.
Also you could have done some stories on the lost episodes of doctor who that were later found again in the basement of a random TV station in South Africa... And talked about the other episodes that were deleted because the BBC was stupid back when they 1st aired them and didn't think they were commercially relevant to be saved for archiving.
If they don't show the episode of Snuffy's parents getting a divorce then it didn't happen, but 9/11 happened in the real life even if they don't talk about it.
Didn't some of the first episodes or seasons of dr who get lost due to a fire in a bbc building?
They could also talk about how the radio show of Dr Who is just gone. No one recorded or saved the scripts from that time.
@@Tenma2411 There was also they would write the tapes over because at that time they legitimately thought that archiving this wouldn't matter at all.
They only archived commercially successful shows
I don't get the joke... Maybe you're just not funny?
For anyone interested in Australia's contribution to the moon landing footage, I would recommend the film The Dish, an Australian comedy with Sam Niel
Shut up, no one cares.
During the 1970's a public information film was shown on UK TV it concerned railway safety and was titled "The Finishing Line", it's something that I'll never forget as it traumatised me as a kid. It's not exactly a piece of lost media although it's almost impossible to find these days, it was briefly up on youtube but has since disappeared again.
The plot of the film is based around the idea of a school sports day where children partake in various dangerous events on a railway line such as throwing bricks through the windows of passing trains. It culminates in a final event that depicts teams of kids walking into a railway tunnel into the path of an oncoming train and ends with adults walking into the tunnel and carrying out the bodies of the dead children and laying them out on the line.
Absolutely horrific stuff, especially if you saw this when you were young and this was shown at teatime.
The 1970's were an absolutely crazy time where it seemed like almost anything was acceptable, I still think about this film to this very day, it really left it's mark on me.
OMG! I remember this! I'd assumed I amalgamated different stories together...
@@reachandler3655 Yeah I thought the same until I started doing a little research, I always thought it was some kind of childhood nightmare or something.
I think Guru Larry covered that video a while back. I recall watching it and thinking that Britains were hard core for making kids watch stuff like that back then.
@@Froggievilleus Yeah you're right I just checked out his video on it, it's almost laughable to watch it now but I think this was shown when I was about 7 years old, it was far more disturbing back then.
We should sue for the trauma!
My Father and his parents woke me and my sister up and had us come watch the Apollo 11 landing. Yeah I’m older but it’s something I’ll always remember and I’m glad my family wanted me to see it.
I have a strong suspicion the scientists at NASA definitely suggested keeping a high rez copy would be a good idea, but the account in charge went "but we'd rather reuse the tape $$"
Re the moon pics...
Neil took a few still shots with his own camera of Buzz climbing down the ladder. He kept the negatives and eventually gave them to...
...my Dad, who made a nice display (dad was a graphic artist who knew ppl) and hung on our wall, with Neil's inscription to my father under it.
I grew up with this thing on our wall, never really knowing how important it was...
Times got tight and the photos and negatives got sold for about 8k a few years back, but I'll remember those shots forever.
Another curious case of Lost Media can be found in the 1976 BBC mini-series "I, Claudius". At the end of one episode, the Emperor Caligula cuts open the womb of his incestuous sister Drusilla with a knife and devours their unborn child, imitating the classic tale in which the god Saturn devours his children to prevent them from turning against him. Unfortunately, the most violent parts of the scene were cut in subsequent broadcasts for being too violent for the time. These edited shots were lost forever, which is a real shame
I thought for sure you would mention Super Bowl 1. Supposedly there is only one known copy of it by some guy with a fancy pre-VCR recording device, as the NFL didn't think it was important to record it at the time.
1:33 the moon landing
4:32 Christine Chubbuck's final broadcast
8:44 Sesame Street episodes 847 & 2985
How about the never aired business blaze episode on north korea? I really want to see that one!
I saw the Margaret Hamilton episode, and I agree it should not have been aired. Though the episode was about respect and the virtue of self-control, and even standing up to a bully, it was intense. And in _The Wizard of Oz,_ the witch was already destroyed. I think that in itself would make her reprise scary.
I had seen her on _Mister Rogers Neighborhood_ as herself, and on the show she talked with Fred Rogers about how scary the witch might have been to children.
In the show, she pulled out the costume and put it on with Mr. Rogers' help, and she even said a few lines at his request. They talked about how people seem to change when they put on a costume, but they are people like everyone else. They took the costume off before she left to show she was the same Margaret Hamilton as before.
I can see how the story for Sesame Street can scare kids. (It startled me!) There are a lot of kids watching that might not have developed to understand about adult pretend. Even all the characters on Sesame Street are pretend, even the real people. They even framed one or more episodes around Mr Hooper the original shop owner when he died in real life. That was done sensitively and well.
I don't know how people can laugh and be happy.
People I know are so clueless about what it's like in the real world, where I've tried all my life to succeed. Most of them have barely worked a straight week in their lives, and they laugh and joke about this, and that, while seeing me as the pariah. Someone who destroys their illusionary view of some future where everything's gonna be okay. I've tried my hardest, all my life to build something I could genuinely be happy about. And this has all taught me that their is no way for people like me to succeed. No matter how hard I struggle, no matter what I achieve, no matter who I help along the way, I will never receive any type of advancement, or recognition for anything. I can't laugh and pretend everything is alright, because I know from experience that everything is not alright. There is no hope. I'm gonna die isolated, penniless, and alone. And so are they. They just haven't tried yet, and most probably never will, or will never need to.
Christine may have not gotten the video shown the way she wanted, but Budd Dwyer did, and even the band Filter made a song about it called 'Hey Man Nice Shot'. Most people who liked that song when it came out had no idea what it was actually about. Budd Dwyer's video is still available on YT and other places.
The answer to "what's the best way to commit suicide" is "sit here and let me get someone from the prevention hotline in here."
There was a British comedy series called Hardwick House, anarchic and very dark humour. A full series of, I think, 6 episodes was made, but it was pulled after 2, never to be seen again. Said to have been ordered destroyed, but that copies do still exist.
Tom & Jerry
Episode: 103 - Blue Cat Blues
Date: November 16, 1956
A lesson that many of us should have had from we were kid, but it was banned.
Their were a lot of episodes missing as lost media from the short lived CN show Out of Jimmy’s Head which itself was based on the very unpopular Reanimated hybrid movie. The reason for the lost media episodes is because the short lived Cartoon Network series was cancelled as a consequence of the infamous writers guild strike of 2008.
I really felt like Sesame Street should have tackled the concept of divorce differently, and in two parts. They should have introduced the conversation with a new character, one that was already a child of divorce who had adjusted well to it, and who had a balanced, healthy relationship with both parents. They could then have had an existing character go through the situation of having their parents divorce, while having the other character there as support and a reminder that there's a next step for families going through divorce. Start with an example of how the positive outcome is possible, then show what had to be worked through in order to reach it.
I remember the witch episode. I never knew it was shelved for so long
I remember watching original episodes of Sesame Street. Every episode seemed to have an importance that you could feel. It felt like the lesson you were learning was important and absolute. I remember how the "funny parts" of the show seemed to be just breaks in the lesson we were learning. I can see how these un-aired episodes would have affected kids. Divorce for one's parents was a new thing back then, and was terrifying. Pulling that episode, especially if the wrong lesson was learned, probably was a good idea. It probably would have traumatized me.
As a wee lad I saw the infamous Wicked Witch Sesame Street episode and I didn't think it was scary at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure I thought it was cool that she was there.
Harry Greb MW/LHW champion was filmed only once over 200 fights. Greb vs Tunney I, May 23rd 1922 for the American LHW Championship. There are only two frames of this fight remaining, attached to a copyright application (thus confirming its existence). There is no proof that the film was ever viewed by the public but may have been. But because there is no other footage of the Great Harry Greb in a prize fight, this lost film has become the Holy Grail of fight films.
Holy crap, that was depressing. Informative. But depressing.
Then there was the famous unaired broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show" in June 1971, when organic food promoter Jerome Rodale bragged that he would live to be 100, but suffered a fatal heart attack after the interview, while sitting on the couch during Cavett's interview with Pete Hamill. The show, taped a few hours before its scheduled broadcast, was never shown. Cavett reportedly still has the tape in his private collection.
Not quite the examples I was expecting. Thought there'd be some mention of Song of the South or the pilot episode of Game of Thrones.
Holy shit man, the Christine suicide details are fucked. Fuck, that’s sad.
Sesame Street will have no problem running any show now. There's no one left to stop them.
I'm kind of surprised that Timothy Treadwell video wasn't mentioned
I don't think that was video, just audio.
@@sydhenderson6753 yes, but that has been lost as well. And technically it was audio on video. I guess it's not so mysterious as to what happened to it, unless people think that woman didn't follow Verner hertzog advice
If you do a part two of this, please include Dad's Army!
The Chubbock film is out there. The Grizzly Man audio seems to be actually lost for real.
Every football fan from 1989 recalls the Hillsborough disaster.
Strange that the South Yorkshire police video tapes taken from the police control centre, right next to the Liverpool fans!
Strange that this real time view of what the police were seeing in real time went missing????
Shame it took three decades for the full truth to emerge? Strange that the police tapes did not surface
An estimated 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever.
Yeah, early photographic film (wasn't completely replaced by a safer alternative until the 1950s) was basically the same stuff as artillery propellant, and after awhile it starts decaying and releasing nitric acid and heat, which speeds up the decay of the rest, if the heat produced by decay doesn't start a fire first (yes, it can spontaneously combust).
@@DeliveryMcGee Yes! Over the years MILES & MILES of old film have spontainously burst into flames. Unstable, old nitrate film is basically an explosive!
Great topic, lost media is fascinating.
@sideprojects What are the silver square things on the wall behind you?
You might as well do a biographic on Christine
I remember that episode of Sesame Street. I remember enjoying it.
Snuffy's parents getting a divorce probably had the fuzzy guy saying the same things the kids did and getting reassured and treated well.
Kids are really monkey see, monkey do at that age - even toddlers will flop down from standing still, cry like they are hurt, and then suddenly stop and start running around until they see an adult they can flop down and cry in front of. We teach em to be little people, they start out as something way closer to an angry drunken Tomodachi.
Snuffy’s parents get a divorce is the most interesting lost episode media for me because there’s never been any divorces in my family for multiple generations so I never had to live in that situation.
Funny cause for example, my parents met in the Navy during the 90’s and after 2 months they got married. My mom got pregnant with my sister and also as well, to stay on the same ship they had to get/be married to each other. They got married on Christmas Eve. It’s been a happy marriage ever since. Having divorced parents is so common nowadays. I always feel like my family is the odd one out.
You could probably do another video just on WWE "lost" media.
There's the fall that killed Owen Hart in '99 on a PPV. The fall didn't air on the show itself but there is raw footage from the broadcast that is locked in their headquarters labeled "Never to be copied or aired".
There is the Smackdown episode where Darren Drozdov was paralyzed from the neck down by a move gone wrong. The show was taped at the time so they edited that part out.
Finally, most recent (as far as I know) is the Chris Benoit tribute episode of Monday Night Raw. Allegedly, WWE didn't know all the details before they went ahead with it and only found out after it aired.
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The moon landing
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Christine chubbuck's final broadcast
8:50 - Chapter 3 - Sesame street episodes 847 & 2985
1:38 I was not quite two years old when the moon landing took pace and I have no memory of where I was. I expect I was in my crib sleeping but I don't explicitly remember it.
I've seen the video of the news lady's suicide.... A friend of mine had it and I have no idea how he got it, but yeah... I saw it and I wish I hadn't...
Seriously?
Alright then Budd Dwyer’s was 1000 times more gruesome.
Was it because of how stoic she remained just prior?
*La Noire doubt meme* And I suppose you have a girlfriend too, but we haven't seen her because she goes to school in Canada?
Although I knew Simon had a body, it's still freaky to see it so...out there
TOS Star Trek show Plato's Stepchildren was not shown by some TV stations when it came out.
I hope the random series of events that lost the original moon landing footage is on here. To some people, random happenstance equals proof of insane conspiracy.
Also hope Dr Who early episodes is on here.
Ooh sweet it's the first one!
Yeah, like your vid on cults last week. I went looking for it but it's gorn!
@SIDEPROJECTS_1 Sorry, I don't know how to do that.
I can't remember was R. Budd Dwyer's news conference where he shot himself recorded? Or did the gun come out and they cut to black?
I’ve seen it and it’s VERY gruesome.
Yeah this is pretty easy to find on the internet.
@@gemfyre855 not that I want to see it, but yeah, then the footage is not 'lost"
I remember watching the news story at the time and they cut away before the shot. A few years ago I found the unedited segment online. Wow. Don’t want to see it again.
For a part 2, you could include the footage of Owen Hart falling to his death at a WWE (then WWF) pay-per-view event in 1999.
this missed one things people didn't think about preserving myspace is the perfect example there are a good chunk of games that do not get a single mention zero documented evidence other the maybe something in a company's files or computers that it existed and even the most popular games have few pictures and outside of old pictures of top myspace games very few mentions of it there are also many songs that been completely lost and im sure a good number of things that were just never preserved it is just shocking for something that were so big at one point and so recent really has very little of things on it preserved
These videos are roughly 12-15 minutes long. We can't include every single piece of lost media in something so short
@@ThatWriterKevin sorry i meant more when listing the types of lost media that it did not list things people didn't think to preserve i get how everything cant be put in a video and i do feel with more things movie to being only data while it does allow so much to be preserve it also might also lead things to be completely lost from sites that people always though would be there
Dad's Army and Dr Who have some true lost media.
Maybe Sideprojects could try to find the lost episodes of Dad's Army? :P
The Black Cauldron, Disney, 1985. I watched this a few years ago with no knowledge or preconceptions regarding the film. So weird and rushed seemed the climax, I researched online to fine out why it seemed so disjointed. The reason, after a test screening which resulted in a lot of upset children, the studio chairman ordered approximately 12-minutes of footage be removed from the film, and this 12 minutes have not been made available to the general public ever since!
I think hacking the film down like that ruined it. At best, the pacing was obviously well off - I could certainly see something was amiss! A Far better option might have been to raise the certificate rating to, say, a 12?
Anyhow, I think it's about time we had a director's cut - the perfect thing for a remastered Blu ray edition?
Since the moon landing footage was seen worldwide, I wonder if any broadcast in PAL or SECAM was produced filming the original material as well, or by filming the (already inferior) NTSC broadcast...
Forgot the long-lost audio recording of Timothy Treadwell being eaten by a bear!
There was a movie I saw at college called 'Meat', about the cruelty in the packing industry. It is GONE!
Not sure how true this is, but I saw somewhere that NASA has actually "thrown out" all the original design schematics for the Shuttle. So, even if they wanted to make a new one, they'd have to start from scratch. Obviously there are various design elements very well documented, but wiring, fuses, circuits etc have all been lost. I'm reasonable sure that today they would follow the Russian and Chinese models and have un-manned "drone" shuttles anyway, but it's both scary and disappointing to know that they actually can't build one any more. The designs were supposedly thrown out during a huge clear-out at NASA, and everyone simply thought everyone else had the original documents... so they ALL threw them out. As I say, thats unconfirmed, but certainly sounds viable...
The Witch Sesame St. episode was shown on C4 in the Uk in the early 80s.
If I remember correctly, the most widely used footage of the first moon landing was filmed by Buzz Aldrin with his own personal camera from inside the lunar module, through the porthole. It turned out to be the highest quality footage of the whole event, so it is the footage that most people are familiar with. But, since it was recorded with just a simple handheld camera (Super 8, if I'm not mistaken) it wasn't able to be shown until they were able to get back to Earth and Buzz was able to get it developed.
The movie cameras used were hardly personal cameras, nor were the super 8. You think NASA would send a bargain-basement movie camera on a moon mission??
@@samsignorelli They did send a camera that footage had to be converted to be seen and the converted footage was poor quality. 😃😃
@@blackrazer22 They had color cameras aboard but they couldn't send a single back to Earth. You can see the pictures in the documentary "Apollo 11."
PAL is 525, NTSC is 480. I understand the error, as Simon grew up in PAL-land.
NTSC is 525 total lines, with 480 lines visible. PAL is 625 total lines with 576 lines visible. The "extra" lines are called "overscan" lines. Often they carried non-picture data such as Closed Captioning.
How about Disney disappearing some of their old movies like "Song of the South".
That's not really lost media though. Literally millions of people have seen those.
You said three lost episodes of Sesame Street, where's the third? Lol, come on Simon!
I found my Geocities page on the back up :)))
I recall a strange TV experience in 2003 watching a rerun of Whose Line is it Anyway (UK) on The Comedy Channel (in Canada) at 1 or 2pm. There was a segment where they had to improv a voice-over for a random clip, but the video was a whole bunch of nudists running all around around. You could see absolutely everything. There was no censoring at all. Searching for it online, I could never find any evidence of such an episode existing. And the idea of a show like Whose Line showing full frontal male and female nudity is just bizarre. Especially on the Canadian equivalent of Comedy Central... in the middle of the day. Nothing about it adds up. It makes about as much sense as a dream. But I know it wasn't a dream.
It wasn't like somebody snuck this onto the broadcast like the Flintstones porno rumour, either. The nude clip was playing on a screen in the show and Ryan, and I think Colin were commenting on it. Though I can't remember what they said, I was more surprised at what I was seeing and trying to make sense of it.
Looking suave there simon
Your parents are getting a divorce Snuffleupagus and it’s all your fault.
just as the original star wars films are not available anymore, only the remastered- reedited versions, i was never a fan, but i still acknowledge the originals were superior to the reedited crap now.
Han shot first!
I have the VHS box set from before all the remaster mess.
They did release
Hold on... lost episodes and you miss out Doctor Who entirely? Come on, man that's a whole video in and of itself.
Shockingly there is more than one 13 minute video's worth of lost media in the world
@@ThatWriterKevin The lost Doctor Who episodes are among the most famous ones though...
The video seems to feature only American TV programmes.
@@AtheistOrphan That wasn't by design. I went with the ones that I thought would have the broadest appeal for the hopefully first installment. Doctor Who has a fanatical fanbase for sure, but I don't think it's as far reaching as something like Sesame Street or the Moon Landing
@@ThatWriterKevin, we need a Brain Blaze on this so we can hear Simons tangent on how his Gran knew one of the Doctors.
Get Kenny Lauderdale on finding these!
Hmmm....i think we need a ruling by The Why Files "hecklefish" on this one ;)
Please tell me that it wasn't Verner Vonbraun who suggested SS TV🤦♂️
When i saw the mention of Margaret Hamilton i thought it was about her face being burned during the rehearsals for The Wizard Of Oz
Interesting that Sesame Street tried to make an episode about divorce. The lesson there is that you just simply can not make divorce OK with the children. That is a narcissistic fantasy.
My dnd book, the 'Complete Book of BotchCraft' has disappeared.
The lost media I wish I could see is the dread Pirate Roberts episode of casual criminalist that was pulled because the new writer was plagiarising. Also the business blaze episode that could get a hit put out on simon 😂
The holy grail of books:
Buttercup's Baby
I WANT THE first Muppets one!
The politician R. Budd Dwyer also killed himself on TV...walked into a press conference with a paper bag in his hand. Turned out it had a gun in it, and he pulled it out and blew a hole in his head. I remember it like it was yesterday.
He did that before charges were brought, so that his wife would get his pension.
@@raynardhymen2139 Did I say 'WHY' he did it? No, I didnt. But he still blew a hole thru his head on TV, which was the point of mentioning it....
Simon should watch ‘a funny thing happened on the way to the moon’.
Surprised Budd Dwyer wasn’t on here
I'm from Florida and I remember that