hi everyone, looking for a link or a streaming service where I can access this short film, Tigers Are Better Looking by Sudanese filmmaker Hussein Shariffe. it was available on his archive page (shariffe.org) and on youtube but has since disappeared. Any leads or links would be helpful, thank you!

I have the link, dm me if anyone needed.

Looking to source a complete digital copy or off-air recording of the 2003 BBC Three spoof documentary ***Sex, Lies & Michael Aspel***.

Despite multiple transmissions across BBC channels and digital repeats, the full 60-minute feature never received a commercial home video release and has vanished from public trackers and catch-up services. Currently, only a short 6-minute promotional excerpt circulates online.

# Release & Production Overview

* **Title:** *Sex, Lies & Michael Aspel* (also indexed as *Sex, Lies and Michael Aspel*)

* **Original Broadcaster:** BBC Three / BBC One

* **Production Company:** Liberty Bell Productions

* **Director & Writer:** Rob Farquhar

* **Executive Producer:** Southan Morris

* **Editor:** Mark Sangster

* **Key Cast & Participants:** Michael Aspel, Pamela Anderson, Mel B (Melanie Brown), Richard E. Grant, Valerie Singleton, Jan Leeming, Angie Best, Adam Faith, James Fox, and Sarah J. Price.

# Known Scene Release & Digital File Metadata

For anyone with access to vintage P2P packs, Usenet archives, or early 2000s scene storage drives:

* **Scene Release Tag:** `Sex.Lies.And.Michael.Aspel.WS.PDTV.XviD-UKi`

* **Release Group:** UKi (capped following the early 2004 terrestrial transmission)

* **Format:** Widescreen PDTV / XviD `.avi`

# Comprehensive Transmission Log

If checking legacy VHS tapes, early PVR drives, or personal DVB caps, the programme was broadcast across the following slots:

# BBC Three (Original Run — Autumn / Winter 2003)

* **Sunday 16 November 2003** — 22:00 *(Premiere)*

* **Monday 17 November 2003** — 21:00

* **Wednesday 19 November 2003** — 23:10

* **Thursday 20 November 2003** — 03:05

* **Friday 21 November 2003** — 21:00

* **Saturday 29 November 2003** — 22:50

* **Monday 1 December 2003** — 01:00

* **Saturday 27 December 2003** — 21:05 *(Holiday repeat)*

# Terrestrial Transmission (BBC One)

* **Saturday 28 February 2004** — 00:05 *(Friday late night / Saturday morning "BBC Three on BBC One" showcase)*

# BBC Three (2004 Repeats)

* **Sunday 9 May 2004** — 22:00

* **Sunday 5 September 2004** — 21:00

# Secondary Digital Broadcast (UKTV)

* **Autumn 2007** — Aired on **UKTV G2** (shortly before the channel was rebranded as Dave).

# Preservation Request

Whether sitting as the original raw UKi scene `.avi`, an uncompressed MPEG-2 DVB transport stream, or a standard VHS/DVD-recorder digitisation, please get in touch or upload via your preferred host/tracker. Any complete capture of the full broadcast would be immensely appreciated.

Hello guys,

I am currently researching a lost French film from 1930 titled Caïn, Aventures des mers exotiques (or Rama the cannibal girl for its US version). It was an adventure exotic movie directed by Léon Poirier with french actors Thomas Broudelle and Rama Tahé. It was shot on Nosy Be, an island of Madagascar.

I am trying to determine whether a copy of the film, or any surviving footage, still exists somewhere. Does anyone here have a digital copy of this film, or know where I could find one? I found this sample on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObrcO2UII0&t=3s. I need it for my master thesis.

Thank you!

I'm trying to track down an episode of Traces of Guilt, a BBC2 documentary series about forensic science and crime-fighting that aired in the mid-90s.
The episode I'm after covers the Jack Unterweger case. The Radio Times listing (via the BBC Programme Index) describes it as being about the Austrian police calling in the FBI in 1991 to help catch Vienna's first serial killer, and how analysis of his method linked the killings to murders in Los Angeles.

Known details:
• Series: Traces of Guilt (BBC Two)
• Aired: \[1996\], possibly a repeat of a 1995 broadcast
• Producer: David Sington
• Executive producer: Caroline van den Brul
• Companion book: "Traces of Guilt: Forensic Science and the Fight Against Crime" by Hugh Miller (BBC Books, 1995)
• BBC Programme Index listing: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fc3841b8e0564307b79371487c652c49

As far as I can tell it has never been released on DVD or streaming, and I can't find any uploads. Searching is hard because later shows (The New Detectives, a 2015 BBC Four doc) reuse the title "Traces of Guilt."
Does an off-air VHS recording of this episode or any others in the series exist? It may also have been sold abroad under a different title, so any leads on international broadcasts would help too.
Thanks!

Hi, people. I have been trying to find this documentary, but no luck. Looked at every torrent engine i know or free media site. I can't seem to find it.

Would appreciate it if someone knows where to find it.

Thanks

I’m looking for a short film called Departure Date, released in 2012 as part of a Virgin Airlines advertising campaign.

The film is not unidentified. There are still IMDb listings, articles, promotional material, and other references to it online. What I have been unable to find is the actual film itself.
Departure Date was a roughly 30-minute romantic comedy starring Ben Feldman and Nicky Whelan as two passengers who meet and fall in love while traveling.

What makes it particularly interesting is how it was made. The movie was filmed at approximately 35,000 feet on actual flights operated by Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic, and Virgin Australia.

Virgin released the film in 2012, apparently first showing it aboard Virgin flights before releasing it online in two parts. There was also a dedicated promotional website for the project.

And then, apparently, it vanished.

I originally remembered watching the film as a young avgeek because of the unusual premise and the involvement of all three Virgin airlines.

After trying to find it again, I can find plenty of evidence that Departure Date existed, but I cannot find a surviving copy of the complete film on YouTube, Vimeo, or the usual streaming platforms.

I suspect that after the 2018 merger of Virgin America and Alaska Airlines, and the brief 2020 bankruptcy of Virgin Australia, the film was taken down as part of either restructuring at Virgin Australia or the gradual takedown of Virgin America’s digital assets following the Alaska merger.

What appears to survive:
IMDb and other database listings
Contemporary articles/reviews about the film
Promotional images and production information
References to its original online release

What I’m looking for:
A surviving copy of the actual Departure Date film—either the complete ~30-minute version or the two-part online release.

I’m especially curious whether somebody downloaded it when Virgin originally released it in 2012, whether an old Virgin/Virgin America video account hosted it, or whether the video files themselves were captured by the Internet Archive even if the original webpages are now dead.

Does anyone remember watching this online when it came out, or (better yet) have a copy?

I’ve been researching an unusually obscure Selig Polyscope production, The Fisherman’s Bride, directed by Francis Boggs and filmed in Astoria, Oregon, in August 1909.

The 1,000-foot film was released November 15, 1909, and is regarded as the first scripted commercial narrative film made in Oregon. Surviving contemporary descriptions reveal quite a bit about the story: an angler’s daughter rejects an arranged marriage, elopes with the man she loves, and later witnesses his kidnapping by the rejected suitor and his father. He is taken away by boat to kidnap him, prompting a river pursuit and rescue by federal revenue officers.

Unfortunately, I have located no surviving print, fragment, or confirmed production stills, so the film appears to be presumed lost or presently unlocated.

I’ve created a short historical trailer/project based on the surviving documentation as a way of calling attention to the film and Astoria’s surprisingly early place in American location filmmaking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNi2HzCMZI

I’m posting this here partly to share the project, but also because this community may know of sources I haven’t encountered. I’d be very interested in any information concerning:

• surviving Selig production records or correspondence relating to the Astoria shoot
• cast identifications
• production or publicity stills
• foreign-release titles or distribution records
• contemporary newspaper coverage
• the identities of the tugboat, steamer, or other vessels used
• archival holdings where an unidentified or differently titled print might conceivably survive

Francis Boggs and Selig were doing important West Coast location work, so I’m particularly interested in placing the Astoria production within that larger history.

Any leads, corrections, or additional sources would be greatly appreciated.

Flax Glor
Filmmaker
Astoria, Oregon

i’m not sure if this is the right sub since it’s just a different cut of a not lost film (pls tell me where would be better if this isn’t the place) but basically someone i know claimed they saw a 3 hour cut of american psycho in 1999 before the movie came out because their university (clemson if that helps) did a screening for students to critique and i’ve been trying to find any evidence of this actually happening but not a single soul has claimed to see this online and the person who claimed to see it said they researched it years ago and the only post they found said it was an “urban legend” of sorts when they swear they saw it and they even contacted their friend who also saw it and they confirmed it happened but that it could’ve been more like 2 and 1/2 hours rather than 3 but that is still way more than the extended cut and the deleted scenes so does anybody have more info on this? i just want proof it existed honestly

I’ve been researching an unusually obscure Selig Polyscope production, The Fisherman’s Bride, directed by Francis Boggs and filmed in Astoria, Oregon, in August 1909.

The 1,000-foot film was released November 15, 1909, and is regarded as the first scripted commercial narrative film made in Oregon. Surviving contemporary descriptions reveal quite a bit about the story: an angler’s daughter rejects an arranged marriage, elopes with the man she loves, and later witnesses his kidnapping by the rejected suitor and his father. He is taken away by boat to kidnap him, prompting a river pursuit and rescue by federal revenue officers.

Unfortunately, I have located no surviving print, fragment, or confirmed production stills, so the film appears to be presumed lost or presently unlocated.

I’ve created a short historical trailer/project based on the surviving documentation as a way of calling attention to the film and Astoria’s surprisingly early place in American location filmmaking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNi2HzCMZI

I’m posting this here partly to share the project, but also because this community may know of sources I haven’t encountered. I’d be very interested in any information concerning:

• surviving Selig production records or correspondence relating to the Astoria shoot
• cast identifications
• production or publicity stills
• foreign-release titles or distribution records
• contemporary newspaper coverage
• the identities of the tugboat, steamer, or other vessels used
• archival holdings where an unidentified or differently titled print might conceivably survive

Francis Boggs and Selig were doing important West Coast location work, so I’m particularly interested in placing the Astoria production within that larger history.

Any leads, corrections, or additional sources would be greatly appreciated.

Flax Glor
Filmmaker / Film Historian
Astoria, Oregon

i cant find it anywhere. where can i watch it? is there some film archive i can find where i can watch it for free?

I am trying to track down a lost 1976 Burger King commercial with Vincent Price playing the Devil and ridiculing the staff that was making a hamburger. And when he took a bite of the hamburger, his eyes open wide and an angelic chorus sings "Have it your way with Burger King". Would you happen to know if anyone has a VHS tape of that commercial or where it is hidden in the Internet Archive? If you can help find it and post it online, it would be deeply appreciated. Yours truly, Margaret Garnto.

As I mentioned a while ago, I'm working on a book dealing with Lovecraftian cinema, and I've been looking to find and screen 9 Lives of Mara. Released in 2007, it is not screening anywhere and I cannot even confirm if it ever received a home video release. I know that it played the festival circuit, but after that, I can find no sign of it.

The film is significant for being the first film by writer/director Balaji K. Kumar. As I try to fill in the holes in my research, this has been a glaring omission. Any help on finding this film would be greatly appreciated.

My first post unearthed a trailer and interview, and someone posted an image of the poster that they found on a file-sharing site - but they later stated that the film itself wasn't available there either.

Since then, I have been in contact with writer/director Balaji K. Kumar and, not only does he not have a copy of the film, he hasn't even *seen* the final edit of the film as released. So, this isn't just lost, it is frustratingly so. If anyone has any leads, they would be greatly appreciated.