16:25 I’m tryna be a titular engine  bricked up in a tunnel if you feel me

When lost media becomes lost permanently always breaks my heart unless if it’s a death scene, or something else.

You know what's a deep mine of lost media? Radio. It's almost always live and the pre-casette days (aside from some pre-produced shows) are just freakin' gone. Today I suppose a lt is recorded, but you rarely hear of repeats or re-releases. Once when going on holiday we caught this hilarious local station outside London. They were talking about a crazy charity event in the USA (something something people slapped with dead fish to raise money for a talking fire engine), and commented "they wouldn't even use that as a plot in South Park!", then the rest of the show went in and out of being a South Park parody, including the credits all being delivered in Cartman's voice.

Regarding the erasure of old episodes of TV shows: it wasn't just that it was expensive to keep the tapes around, it also had to with the fact that cultural ideas about performance were really different back then. Even in the 60s, film and television were still quite new and virtually everybody working in the industry would have had their roots in live theatre, where archiving one particular performance of a script just wasn't all that important. The idea is pretty alien to us today, but there was even some resistance to recording early TV shows at all because people were thinking that the network, cast, and crew might want to perform it again differently, as if it were a play, and they didn't want to have to compete with another version floating around

Ironically, the thumbnail for this video reminds me of a lost media of my own: PLAYING CHICKEN WITH THE TRAIN.  Apparently it was a filmstrip on train safety, and ends with a group of teens being decapitated (!) when playing too close to a passing train.

Why Spider-Man?  Because that's the one detail I can remember from the film too...a kid was reading a Spidey comic book.

I love lost media. It is my favorite topic to talk about.

The Spider-Man vs Kraven The Hunter short film is something I would like to see, The Sad Story Of Henry is likely lost forever, but thank god we’ve got evidence that it did exist.

Of all of those, I think only Spider-Man Vs Kraven The Hunter has a good chance of still existing. We know the only digital copy was lost with Cardozo's computer but there was at least one film copy that was made plus the original film itself. Also there was a clip film that was given to Marvel. It's possible that other members of the production crew had production footage that may be still with them or their families. Of course all of that could have been destroyed or is no longer viewable.

The Spider Man movie is like the London After Midnight of the comic book world.

After you have a decent library of videos built up, I'd love to see an update on some of the topics you've covered if there's been any new info. Well done so far, very informative.

Wow 4:18  photo of Kraven The Hunter looks way better then the new Kraven the Hunter movie coming out ironically lol

insane that i went to sixth form with you and now i have your content unironically recommended to me
-matty

1:14 He looks like Donald Pleasance.

The E in RTE is pronounced "Airen" just letting you know

imagine actually wanting to make a "thomas the tank engine" show LIVE lol

As a Thomas fan, I'd love to be able to see that broadcast. At the very least to see more photos of the trains. As a odd side note, I have often wondered if as they were using Julia Lang, if she was to begin the story in her customary manner from Listen With Mother.

Old VHS tapes may be the last hope of finding lost media. I can’t count how many tapes I’ve seen at flea markets that people had recorded television shows on.📼

I'd really like to see more stuff like this from the lost media community. I'm quite tired of lost media for popular well-documented shows that are less than 20 years old getting all the focus.

That kraven would have been badass. Great job 👍👌👍👏👍👏

Fun fact, author of R.U.R. (with help from his brother) invented the word Robot. We use that word today because of that play.