Finding Lost Media

lordwafflecat
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Finding Lost Media Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT dogpolygonrt66 likes this

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Post by lordwafflecat on Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT

Hi! I'm new here ,so if this doesn't belong here, feel free to patronize me and remove it. I have been intrigued by things like this, namely Film and Tv recovery. Recently I created a subreddit to try and track down a book that an author had pulled from print and any copies he could find. Eventually, someone found an e-book copy of it and posted it on said subreddit. Now, here I was, thinking that we would have to get pictures of the pages, and type them by hand. Fairly anti-climactic, but still really cool. So this got me thinking, how are movies and books usually recovered? Is it crazy long hours of editing and putting pieces together, or someone just happening to stumble upon it? Or maybe a mix? Either way, does anyone who has had a hand in any sort of media recovery share their stories? Thanks!

dogpolygonrt66
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Finding Lost Media Dec 5, 2017 2:10:09 GMT

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Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Dec 5, 2017 2:10:09 GMT

Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT lordwafflecat said:

Hi! I'm new here ,so if this doesn't belong here, feel free to patronize me and remove it. I have been intrigued by things like this, namely Film and Tv recovery. Recently I created a subreddit to try and track down a book that an author had pulled from print and any copies he could find. Eventually, someone found an e-book copy of it and posted it on said subreddit. Now, here I was, thinking that we would have to get pictures of the pages, and type them by hand. Fairly anti-climactic, but still really cool. So this got me thinking, how are movies and books usually recovered? Is it crazy long hours of editing and putting pieces together, or someone just happening to stumble upon it? Or maybe a mix? Either way, does anyone who has had a hand in any sort of media recovery share their stories? Thanks!

A lot of harder to find pieces of media are found by contacting people in the business that made them, or by way of obscure archives.

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dogpolygonrt66
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Finding Lost Media Dec 5, 2017 2:11:03 GMT

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Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Dec 5, 2017 2:11:03 GMT

Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT lordwafflecat said:

Hi! I'm new here ,so if this doesn't belong here, feel free to patronize me and remove it. I have been intrigued by things like this, namely Film and Tv recovery. Recently I created a subreddit to try and track down a book that an author had pulled from print and any copies he could find. Eventually, someone found an e-book copy of it and posted it on said subreddit. Now, here I was, thinking that we would have to get pictures of the pages, and type them by hand. Fairly anti-climactic, but still really cool. So this got me thinking, how are movies and books usually recovered? Is it crazy long hours of editing and putting pieces together, or someone just happening to stumble upon it? Or maybe a mix? Either way, does anyone who has had a hand in any sort of media recovery share their stories? Thanks!

For internet media, some things that I have found were found via archive.org pages. Usually you just happen to stumble upon what you're looking for after you look back over what you've looked over in the past.

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senshisun
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Finding Lost Media Dec 6, 2017 23:44:04 GMT dogpolygonrt66 likes this

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Post by senshisun on Dec 6, 2017 23:44:04 GMT

Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT lordwafflecat said:

Hi! I'm new here ,so if this doesn't belong here, feel free to patronize me and remove it. I have been intrigued by things like this, namely Film and Tv recovery. Recently I created a subreddit to try and track down a book that an author had pulled from print and any copies he could find. Eventually, someone found an e-book copy of it and posted it on said subreddit. Now, here I was, thinking that we would have to get pictures of the pages, and type them by hand. Fairly anti-climactic, but still really cool. So this got me thinking, how are movies and books usually recovered? Is it crazy long hours of editing and putting pieces together, or someone just happening to stumble upon it? Or maybe a mix? Either way, does anyone who has had a hand in any sort of media recovery share their stories? Thanks!

Recovery is a process that usually consists of contacting people involved with a show or a book and asking them if they still have a copy. If not, or if you know where the copy should be and can't get access to it, you ask if they have more information about it. It's not the same as putting the pieces together.

Occasionally you have to put pieces together from various sources, but in most situations like that, it's because you have an English version of a clip with low quality and a higher quality version of a clip in another language. Other times you can't get access to a book, so you use bits that have been quoted by someone you do have access to.

Now, here I was, thinking that we would have to get pictures of the pages, and type them by hand.

Unrelated question: Why would you need to type up the pages? Just scanning the book into pictures would be enough to read it.

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virtuaboi
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Finding Lost Media Dec 7, 2017 23:50:58 GMT dogpolygonrt66 and senshisun like this

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Post by virtuaboi on Dec 7, 2017 23:50:58 GMT

It's too hard to pinpoint one specific way, and oftentimes lost media becomes found in really unconventional ways; you really just have to find leads (people to contact) and exhaust them.

I would suggest looking at specific "found" articles to see how they were uncovered, because oftentimes that lore is way more fascinating than the piece of media itself, heck, if you want to see it in action, Clock Man is our biggest search atm: forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/115/pinwheel-clock-animated-search-effort?page=31

Edit: Here's the story of Cracks (some obscure Sesame Street cartoon from the '70s): dycaite (site leader) relentlessly searches for it, some guy gets a copy from an heir of the animator under the condition he is not allowed to put it online; dycaite randomly receives short anonymously in his e-mail on Xmas Eve a few years ago.

Years later, we discover the short had a commercial release in Latin America (VHS tape).

Last Edit: Dec 7, 2017 23:58:36 GMT by virtuaboi

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Post by lordwafflecat on Dec 4, 2017 19:02:49 GMT

Post by dogpolygonrt66 on Dec 5, 2017 2:10:09 GMT

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Post by virtuaboi on Dec 7, 2017 23:50:58 GMT

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