This article is about lost audiovisual media. For other types of lost works, see Lost literary work and Lost artworks.
Theatrical release poster for the lost film London after Midnight, the last known copy of which was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire[1]
Lost media is any media that is believed to have been forgotten or no longer exists in any format. The term primarily encompasses visual, audio, or audiovisual media such as films, television and radio broadcasts, music,[2] and video games.[3][4]
Many television and radio broadcast masters, recorded onto magnetic tape, may be lost due to the industry practice of wiping. Motion picture studios also often destroyed their original nitrate film elements, as film and broadcast material was often considered ephemeral and of little historical worth after they had made their revenue. Some media considered lost may exist in studio or public archives, but may not be available due to copyright or donor restriction rules.[5] Due to unstable nature of any format, film, tape, phonograph record, optical discs like CDs and DVDs, and digital data stored on hard drives, all naturally degrade over time, especially if not kept in correct storage conditions.
Preservation efforts attempt to avoid the loss of works; this is usually done by storing them in archives, one example being the Arctic World Archive, which has been the chosen location for the preservation of the code on public repositories on GitHub[6] along with a wide range of data of interest to multiple companies, institutions and governments; including the Constitutions of Brazil and Norway.[7]
^Soister, John; Nicolella, Henry; Joyce, Steve; Long, Harry (2012). American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913–1929. McFarland. p. 333. ISBN 978-0786435814.
^Blanchet, Brenton (April 21, 2020). "The internet community unearthing lost episodes from your childhood faves". i-D. Vice Media. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021.
^Forrest, Eleanor (March 8, 2022). "Meet Raven Simone, the YouTuber who discovered the lost Mean Girls video game". NME. NME Networks. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022.
^Bell, Brendan (September 16, 2021). "Meet the YouTubers determined to find lost media". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on September 16, 2021.
^Hughes, William (June 18, 2022). "A 'lost,' 'too-scary' episode of Sesame Street has been uploaded to the internet". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on June 18, 2022.
^"GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault". Engadget. 15 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
^"Look inside the doomsday vault that may hold the world's most important data". NBC News. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
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