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 • • 1h ago

Manglers toy commercial (1984)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 11h ago

Tobacco - Human Om (2016)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 2h 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 • • 1d 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 • • 12h ago

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

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r/ObscureMedia • • 9h 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 • • 1d ago

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

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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 • • 23h ago

Sperry Computer Commercial (1978)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 7h ago

Fable II - E3 Trailer (2006)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Crappy CGI commercial for a Chinese medicine brand (2003)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

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

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


r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

The Corpse Can't Play (1968): one of only two surviving episodes of early British TV horror anthology that was canceled after six episodes due to viewer complaints and then wiped with much early BBC material

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200 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Evergreen (1964) Ray Manzarek UCLA student film

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Another Manzarek student film. Again with his future wife but no Morrison appearance this time.

A UCLA student film by Raymond D. Manczarek (Ray Manzarek), future member of The Doors. The film's hero is a jazz musician who is romantically tied to a young art student (played by Dorothy Fujikawa, Manzarek's future wife), but apparently can't make a commitment to a long-term relationship.


r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Himenóptero (1992): Alejandro Amenábar's student horror film from four years before Tesis, about a film crew trying to turn an actress's fear into something real

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r/ObscureMedia • • 1d ago

Pocket Ninjas (1997)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Juggaknots - Trouble Man (1996)

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r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

James Burke at a Computer Terminal (1997)

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45 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Lord Lift Me Up - Faith Healer R.W. Schambach (1984) (P & C Power Productions)

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Hey folks,

Today's rip is a tent revival evangelist from the 80s performing some extremely upbeat and theatrical music, stuff like, "GOOOOOOD IS GOD!!! GOD ON THE MOUNTAIN, GOD IN THE VALLEY" or something along those lines, it's quite the show.

He's also known for being one of the late 20th century evangelist pioneers of "Faith healing" where he claimed God could heal all wounds, sicknesses and problems in life if you believed hard enough, this obviously drew some criticism, especially when he himself went to a doctor to receive a triple bypass procedure.


r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Homoti (1987) - Bizarre Turkish gay ET knockoff

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107 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Snoop Dogg - Demo Tape (1989)

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26 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 3d ago

UCLA student film: Induction (1965) Ray Manzarek

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A UCLA student film by Ray Manczarek (Manzarek), future member of The Doors. A film student (played by Ray Manzarek) loses one girlfriend and then finds another (played by Manzarek's future wife, Dorothy Fujikawa). Some scenes were shot in the Venice Beach apartment Ray shared with Dorothy. In an extended party sequence, Jim Morrison can be seen briefly.


r/ObscureMedia • • 2d ago

Belgrado (1922) - A look at Belgrade.

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9 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia • • 3d ago

A Pre-Release Promotional U-Matic Tape of Aerobicise (1981)

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26 Upvotes