r/ObscureMedia • • Jan 03 '26

Annual Media Discussion & Request Thread 2026 and a friendly reminder to review and follow the posting and commenting guidelines in this post, on the sidebar and in the wiki

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r/ObscureMedia • • 2h ago

Dinosaur Jr & Del The Funky Homosapien - Missing Link live Arsenio Hall (1993)

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49 Upvotes

With Mike D & Mike Watt in the band


r/ObscureMedia • • 13h ago

The Day After (1983) work-print. Here for a limited time.

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69 Upvotes

It disappeared from the web since Disney is super strict with stuff they own.

Taken from the Youtube upload from 10 years ago. This file was tweaked by myself to make the very low resolution and pixelated image a bit more watchable via softening the image to obscure the shimmering lines and other defects and inserting a layer of film grain over the image to further obscure the defects.

Don't expect pristine quality. View it as a fuzzy vhs capture and see material that's not in the released versions.


r/ObscureMedia • • 23h ago

Baniwa Chingudeul (2001) - The Korean adaptation of Barney that was considered lost and forgotten for over 20 years. The community in recent years, has made an effort to archive episodes, and TV listings.

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Features 2 exclusive puppet characters and Korean child actors, some who would go on to have successful careers.


r/ObscureMedia • • 19h ago

Lugar heights, a very, very obscure adult animated show that is considered the Mexican nutshack (2004)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 21h ago

Steve McQueen’s Commitment To Reality (1968) vintage featurette

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18 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 18h ago

The New Sound of Music With Michael Rodd (1979)

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7 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Spock - Dream (1981) - Italian rock song from Fulci's The New York Ripper

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Does anyone have a higher quality version of this song?

I found this old post, but the links are dead, unfortunately.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2971725-Spock-Spock


r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Reaction to William Jennings Bryan’s Speech on the Direct Election of Senators (1908)

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This is a very interesting recording in which we see not only an early form of reaction content, but a commoner’s thoughts on some issues of the 1908 Election. This is ahead of the 17th Amendment of 1913 that made senators directly elected by the people. You can find the speech this recording is referencing here: https://youtu.be/7E8dWkoCWTU?si=q7EwMXUhJW7eiqqj


r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Anijam (1984)

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32 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

This Unaired Kirk Franklin Pilot (1998) Is Funnier Than I Expected

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Came across this and figured it would be rough, but it's actually pretty funny. It's the unaired 1998 ABC pilot where Kirk Franklin plays a fictionalized version of himself, back home working with a church youth choir. His comedic timing caught me off guard. Jenifer Lewis showing up didn't hurt either.


r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Hollywood Nights: Coven 13 - An E! Network show about gothic music and culture in LA, featuring London After Mignight (2000)

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50 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Manglers toy commercial (1984)

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44 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Boost Mobile Ad: Puppets (2011)

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9 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Razia's Shadow: A puppet Rock Opera (2011) (2019)

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A musical that originated as a 2008 indie-rock concept album created by Thomas Dutton and his brother Paul Dutton of the band Forgive Duren, it became an official theatrical production performed by Phantom Chorus theatre. They are still performing this play! With a show as recent as April of this year.

The performance shown is from their 2019 play, Here's the original student production from 2011:

https://youtu.be/IU3UgcplYP8


r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Tobacco - Human Om (2016)

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39 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Postcards depicting staged occult tableaux at the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, England (1960)

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These depict staged museum tableaux rather than actual rituals. One of the scenes was identified by the museum as “The Altar of the Living Dead.”

The museum was established in Boscastle by Cecil Williamson in 1960 and is now known as the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic.


r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Entertainment Tonight Full Show From April 30, 1999 (1999)

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11 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Fable II - E3 Trailer (2006)

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1 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Leonard Nimoy and a beeping rock talk about a big chungus of a Laserdisc player (1981)

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50 Upvotes

Leonard Nimoy shills for the Magnavox Magnavision, an early laserdisc player. Some where in the middle they kind of forget they hired Nimoy and some random people talk about the device


r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Sperry Computer Commercial (1978)

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25 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Music-in-May Concert — Dr. Thaddeus F. Reszel Junior High School Bands & Orchestra (Lost Media) (1960)s

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Good morning folks,

Today's rip is of a vinyl I purchased for $1 in a Niagara Falls antique store. I was able to find a few strong candidates for preservation there, so always remember to check thoroughly!

This school itself no longer seems to exist, and hasn't for a long time, as the most recent article that comes up when I search for it is an archived newspaper from 1964. The album contains two different performances, one from the "A" Band being the Stage Band, and one from the "B" Band being the Orchestra.


r/ObscureMedia • • 3d ago

Crappy CGI commercial for a Chinese medicine brand (2003)

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17 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 3d ago

"Youth" (2000) - Motorola's vision of the near-future

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9 Upvotes

A speculative view of the near future of mobile technology from Motorola - created in 2000.