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The Hobbit (lost high-frame rate versions of high fantasy adventure film trilogy based on novel; 2012-2014)

« Cover of The Hobbit: The Motion Picture Trilogy.

The Hobbit is a trilogy of high fantasy adventure films based on the J. R. R. Tolkien novel of the same name., In an effort to improve the film viewing experience, Jackson filmed the entire trilogy in 48 frames per second (FPS), double the industry standard of 24 FPS. Despite his efforts the high-frame-rate (HFR) versions never received a home media release and remain lost.

R.U.R. (lost BBC television adaptations of science-fiction play; 1938; 1948)

« Photo from the 1938 television adaptation.

R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti) is a science-fiction drama play written by Karel Čapek. A Czech Republic work established in 1920, the play is historic for inventing the English word "robot". In 1938, the BBC adapted the play to television, which is considered by some sources as the earliest science-fiction television program. The BBC also broadcast another adaptation of the play in 1948.

Versailles no Bara "Moetsukita Bara no Shouzou" (lost alternate final episode of anime series; 1980)

« Series poster.

Versailles no Bara, or more commonly called by its English title, The Rose of Versailles, is an anime series, An original episode entitled "Moetsukita Bara no Shouzou" (transl. "Portrait of a Burning Rose") was made and aired once, and was never broadcasted again nor included in any home media release of the series, In multiple regions of Japan, the series was canceled after its 23rd episode

The Chamber (partially lost Fox game show; 2002)

« Title card of the series.

The Chamber was an American game show, designed to be a more extreme, "visceral" game show in the vein of programs like Fear Factor, and featured contestants being asked questions while strapped into a torture chamber which subjected them to extremely high or extremely low temperatures alongside other environmental conditions such as simulated earthquakes and high winds.

Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka (lost build of unreleased Nintendo 64 simulation game; late 1990s)

« Title screen.

but it became generally known on April 12, 2007, when Game Tanteidan, a used retro game store in Nihonbashi, Osaka, introduced a prototype ROM of the game on its blog, As of 2023, the game has not surfaced online., Ōkōchi Gengorō Ikka (大河内源五郎一家, lit. "Ōkōchi Gengorō Family" or "Gengoichi Shimoda") is an unreleased Nintendo 64 simulation game. During the N64 era, there was no information about this game

The Beatles live at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire (found recording of British rock band concert; 1963)

« The Beatles performing live at Stowe School. 4th April 1963.

The British rock band The Beatles played a rare engagement at the Stowe School in Buckinghamshire on 4th April 1963. The show was held at in the prestigious boy school's auditorium, Roxburgh Hall in front of the student audience., On 4th April 2023, 60 years after the performance, BBC News reported that a tape of the concert had been unearthed.

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UPDATE 3.17: HAPPY NEW DECADE! (Added 13 Jan 2020)

New Adventures of Beany and Cecil: Radio with a Bite & Cecil Meets Clambo

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1989 (mirror)

Sunday Pants, episode 1 (official upload)

Howdy, howdy, howdy, how’s everybody doing tonight? Lucy here, I hope everybody had a good time over the holidays and is enjoying the new year so far – not only a new year, but a new decade! To celebrate, let’s get things started early and wrap up the last finds of the 2010s:

• The Wizbit episode “The Christmas That Nearly Never Was, Part 2” has been uploaded by YouTube user Steve Franklin. Thank you!

• Two more episodes of The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil have been found: “Radio with a Bite”, and “Cecil Meets Clambo” (embedded above), both uploaded by Adam Fair Land. This leaves only one episode lost, so thank you very much for sharing these!

• The entirety of the 1989 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade has been uploaded by LMW user Zane362. Thanks for preserving a piece of history!

• The whole series of Baby Bob (minus the pilot and unaired episodes) has been uploaded by our own SpooferJahk, after recovering them from private site MySpleen, which has long since shut its doors to new users. Thanks for bringing these to a larger audience!

• LMW user TropesAreDangerous has uploaded 6 more Tiger 2-XL Robot games to Archive.org: Jurassic Facts; Monsters, Myths, and Dinosaurs; Say Hello to Famous Folks; Treasure Chest of Facts and Fun; Trivia Time; and World of Science. Thank you for all of your hard work!

• At long last we finally have a full episode of the early Nickelodeon series Hocus Focus, uploaded by Jon QUBE. Jon has also uploaded over 50 minutes of “Plus and Minus” footage from Pinwheel (parts one and two), so thank you very much for sharing these!

• The Genesis prototype of the cancelled Akira video game has been found by Hidden Palace, along with many other prototypes as part of their Holiday 2019 event. Be sure to check them out, and many thanks for their tireless efforts in game preservation!

• On a more somber note, the footage of Tiny Tim’s heart attack has been found. I won’t link it here, but if you want to see it, you know where to look.

And now before finishing up, let’s look at the first few finds of the decade so far:

• All three aired episodes of Megan Wants a Millionaire have been uploaded to Google Drive by LMW commenter Delbert lanier. Thank you for taking the time to share these!

• All 11 aired episodes of Sunday Pants have been uploaded to Vimeo by the series co-creator, Stuart Hill. Thank you!

• SpooferJahk has also found the full series of Star-ving, recovered from a once-dead torrent that suddenly came online. Thank you once again!

• And lastly, something from October that flew under the radar until now - all 26 episodes of Little Lulu and Her Little Friends have been uploaded to YouTube in one video, albeit dubbed in Arabic. Regardless, thanks to the uploader!

That does it for this time – thanks one last time to all those mentioned above, thanks to volunteer Ryanskip for keeping track of these finds as usual, and thanks to everybody who has contributed to the wiki over the years. Here’s to hoping the 2020s are even better!

-Lucy

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Article additions

• ‎‎‎‎Jeopardy (partially found unaired pilot of NBC game show; 1964) 26 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Chunhyangjeon (lost Korean sound film; 1935) 24 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Kyubi no Kitsune to Tobimaru (lost Japanese anime film; 1968) 23 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Toonix (Lost online virtual world game, 2011-2017) 23 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Wallykazam! "Monty's Magic Words" (partially found pilot for children's education TV show; 2010s) 22 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (partially lost original version of British mystery film; 1935) 20 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Chicken Little 2: Mission to Mars (cancelled sequel to Disney animated comedy film; 2006) 20 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Station Zero (partially found animated series; 1999) 17 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Anti Gravity Room (partially found American/Canadian TV series; 1995-1997) 17 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Medusa (lost Leonardo da Vinci painting; 15th century) 16 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Batman: The Animated Series (lost Tim Curry Joker audio recordings from television series; 1992) 16 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Wazooo! What a Zoo (partially found CG animated series; 2003) 15 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎ICarly "How To" (lost bonus content DVD; 2016) 14 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Wiggles Big Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 1997/1998) 12 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Less Than Zero (lost TV pilot based on novel; 2019) 11 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Wii Obstacle Course (lost Wii tech demo; 2006) 10 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎BBC Jam (partially lost children’s educational website; 2006-2007) 07 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La Dee Da Documentary (partially found unreleased Stone Temple Pilots documentary film; early 2000s) 07 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎An Inspector Calls (lost television adaptation of play; 1948) 06 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Consolatio (partially found philosophical work by ancient Roman philosopher; 45 B.C.) 04 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Mondo TV's The Trash Pack (partially found cancelled English dub of Italian animated series; 2012) 03 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Sprouting Orchids (partially found Austin McConnell film; 2013-2014) 03 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Kõige Suurem Sõber (partially found Estonian children's television series; 1982-1990) 01 Mar 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Stickdeath.com (lost flash games from animation website; 1996-late 2000s; 2013-2016) 27 Feb 2020 [New] [NSFW]
• ‎‎‎‎Small Soldiers (lost deleted scenes from action comedy film; 1998) 27 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Hour Glass (lost early NBC variety television series; 1946-1947) 26 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Nickelodeon HALO Awards (partially found annual awards show; 2009-2017) 24 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Ralph Nader Crashes the Two Parties (partially found mock debate film; 2004) 24 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Incel Project (partially found documentary series; 2008-2012) 24 Feb 2020 [New] [NSFW]
• ‎‎‎‎BBC News Guy Kewney interview (lost unaired interview footage; 2006) 23 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Top Gear (partially found episodes of BBC Two television series; 1977-2002) 19 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Friday the 13th (cancelled reboot film; 2017) 18 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Happyish (found unaired pilot of dark comedy TV series; 2013) 18 Feb 2020 [New] [NSFW]
• ‎‎‎‎The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found childern's television series; 2005-2006) 18 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Gnomes of Dulwich (partially found British sitcom TV series; 1969) 17 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎HaHa Nick (lost Chinese block of Nickelodeon shows; 2005-2007) 17 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Super Feed Me (unreleased iOS sequel of Flash game; 2009-2012) 15 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The First Snow of Winter (partially found American dub of British animated film; 1999) 14 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Oishi: Demon Hunter (partially found web series sequel; 2018) 12 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Bravoman: Binja Bash! (lost mobile game; 2013) 11 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎House of 1000 Corpses (lost deleted scenes of Rob Zombie horror film; 2003) 10 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Wonder Momo: Typhoon Booster (partially found mobile game; 2014) 08 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Fudêncio e Seus Amigos (partially lost Brazilian animated series; 2005-2011) 08 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Sleeping Beauty (partially found live action reference material for Disney film; 1959) 08 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎-ED "Calm Here" (partially found album; 2001) 05 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess (partially found educational video; 2001) 04 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Tony48219 (partially found videos by religious YouTuber; 2007-2009) 04 Feb 2020 [New] [NSFL]
• ‎‎‎‎The Fearless Vampire Killers (partially found U.S. cut of horror-comedy film; 1967) 03 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Greed (partially found Fox game show; 1999-2000) 03 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Meme Run (lost unreleased PC port of Wii U endless runner game; 2015) 02 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Heart of the City (partially found cancelled TV series; 1986-1987) 02 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets - "The World's Biggest Treasure Hunt" (lost promotional web game; 2007) 01 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Cloud Nine (partially found live-action segments from PAX TV children's block; 1998–2000) 01 Feb 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Anne of Green Gables (lost American silent film adaptation of Canadian novel; 1919) 28 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Sunshine Princess (partially found Italian animated film; 1999) 28 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Robonic Stooges "Curly of the Apes" (partially found episode of Hanna-Barbara animated series; 1977) 27 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Rogue One Helmet Creator (lost online game; 2016) 27 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎CBS Storybreak "What Happened in Hamelin" (lost episode from animated series; 1987) 27 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎A Journey by Train (lost Arthur Lubin educational film; 1935) 26 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Toby Makes a Million (lost MTV2 comedy series pilot; 2016-2017) 24 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Looney Tunes ClickN Read Phonics (partially found Flash animated internet shorts; 2011) 23 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Life's Shop Window (lost silent drama film based on book; 1914) 21 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show (partially found animated series; 1970-1971) 20 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (partially found Harmony Gold English dub and cut of "Captain Harlock" and "Queen Millennia" anime series; 1985-1986) 20 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎TWISTEX tornado footage (unreleased El Neno tornado footage; 2013) 18 Jan 2020 [New] [NSFL]
• ‎‎‎‎One Touch of Venus (lost BBC radio production; 1995) 14 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎Nine Inch Nails (partially lost songs from American industrial rock band; 1990s-2010s) 13 Jan 2020 [New]
• ‎‎‎‎The Andy Milonakis Show (lost audio from original closing sequence; 2005) 11 Jan 2020
• ‎Rhett & Link "Just Mail Us The Grammy" (partially lost album from American comedy duo; 2001) 11 Jan 2020

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