I know there are the preservation societies for films, but I was wondering if there was any type of website (beyond Wikipedia) which lists a lot of the lost movies or TV shows, and those that have been recovered, what some of the recovered films or TV shows have been. I guess I'm most interested to know whether or not they are still finding lost stuff. I know there is only so much to find but I hate to think that they aren't finding anymore. There are still so many old silent and early sound films, the Our Gang shorts, and so many old episodes of lost TV shows, like Doctor Who, Z Cars, the live anthology shows, et al.

https://www.thanhouser.org/press/The_Net_2022_PR.pdf

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2022-05-10/lost-footage-of-bob-dylans-legendary-1969-isle-of-wight-performance-unearthed-by-san-diegos-reelin-in-the-year

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Natasha-Lyonne-movie-shot-in-SF-All-About-Evil-17235472.php

 

Oh wow. I had no idea that existed. I could not have handled that as a kid; I was terrified of Hamilton in the movie as a child (the music was a big part of it).

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/lost-films/quirino-cristiani-lost-film-entre-pitos-y-flautas-219422.html

My holy grail (besides the soaps) is the May 24, 1959 episode of Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Chita Rivera performed America from West Side Story. The only known footage of her ever doing that number, or anything from WSS. This was while she was in the West End production. I know they have found a few episodes of the show, but not that one. All I have ever seen of her in the show is a split second from Dance at the Gym in London. 

https://blabbermouth.net/news/motorhead-long-lost-film-restored-featuring-previously-unheard-instrumental-demo-ripsaw-teardown

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-62810007

Most of a Morecambe and Wise interview from 1973 was recovered.

Edited September 24, 20223 yr by DRW50

 

1916 Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels  film found.

https://silentmovieday.org/news/lukesdouble

 

  

 

Restoration funding provided by ASIFA-Hollywood. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc., FotoKem. Special thanks to Gosfilmofond, Stanislav Dedinsky, Natalie Ryabchikova, Paramount Pictures Archives.

About the film: Eight years after Betty Boop first appeared on-screen to become an era-defining animated icon, the Fleischer Brothers extended her on-screen family with the intention of freshening up the brand. Introduced in 1938 as Betty’s country cousin, Buzzy Boop was Betty’s comic opposite in every way. Where Betty was frequently the fetching victim of unwanted mischievousness, the gum-smacking, marble-shooting, pig-tailed dynamo Buzzy initiated chaos wherever she went. Unseen for 85 years, Buzzy Boop at the Concert is one of only two shorts she appeared in and was thought lost until a print was discovered in Russia in 2019.

Production: Fleischer Studios. Distribution: Paramount Pictures. Producer: Max Fleischer. Director: Dave Fleischer. With: Mae Questel, Jack Mercer.

Learn more about its rediscovery on our blog, written by animation historian Jerry Beck: ucla.in/3zatbaT

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2022/07/lost-richard-williams-short-sailor-and-the-devil-rediscovered/

Not an actual lost film (or real at all), but a hilarious social media phenomenon that even its alleged director, Martin Scorsese, has gotten in on the joke for: Goncharov

And yes, this part is real: