Lost Media: Tragic Death of Colin Scott

On June 7th siblings 23-year-old Colin Scott and his sister Sable would travel to Yellowstone National Park. At the time Colin had recently graduated from Pacific University and was visiting his sister from Portland, Oregon. The two planned to have a day trip to Yellowstone.

They would park not far from the Norris Geyser Basin in the Wyoming part of the park. Sable would record their trip and when they found that there was no one there with them on the boardwalk route they decided to venture off it. 

The two planned to hot pot which is the prohibited exercise of swimming in hot springs. They would pass by warning signs and venture into a forbidden area. This area was prohibited due to the heat and acidity of the hot springs. These areas were dangerous and deadly and since 1890 there have been 22 known deaths from hotspring accidents. 

The siblings would venture and a terrible accident would happen. Collin would slip into one of these hot springs. Sage would try to save her brother, but it wasn't possible. She would then run to the museum and beg for help. The whole accident would be caught on her phone. 

By the time help arrived, it was obviously too late to save the young man. The only thing they could see was his head hands and upper torso and he was unmoving. It was too dangerous at the time to try to retrieve his body with the oncoming lightning storm and the volatile temperatures of the pools. The hotspring would completely dissolve his body overnight due to the heat and acidic nature of it. Only his wallet and flip-flops were found.

His death was tragic and left a warning to others about the dangers of going into prohibited areas. The recording is considered lost media and it would be best that it's left that way. 

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

The Guardian

The Mirror June 10, 2021

Lost Media: Lostprophets music video for Somdays

Lostprophets was a Welsh band active between 1997 to 2013. They are well known for their 2006 song "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)". However, this band does not exist anymore due to lead singer Ian Walkin's deplorable sex crimes. The other former members are now in the band No Devotion not wanting anything to do with the former band.

It is confirmed that there was a music video planned for their song Somedays. On December 3rd, 2012 Ian tweeted from his account that he was on the way to shoot a music video for it. He and guitarist Lee Gaze were the only band members present. The rest of the members were supposed to be shown in archive footage. This however will never be released.

On December 17, 2012, Ian would be arrested and sentenced for his crimes a year later. I won't go too into his crimes but he had victims that were teenagers, children, and even toddlers and infants. He had even used drugs on some of his victims and filmed the acts with them. He pleaded guilty to 13 charges and is serving 29 years in prison. He did not take this seriously as he was recorded in a prison call referring to his crimes as "Mega Lolz". Disgusting.

It is confirmed that there was a music video planned for their song Somedays. On December 3rd, 2012 Ian tweeted from his account that he was on the way to shoot a music video for it. He and guitarist Lee Gaze were the only band members present

SOURCES:
Lost Media Wiki
Wikipedia
YouTube Breakdown Media's brief breakdown of Ian Watkin's crimes

Lost Media: First music video for Alarm Call by Björk

Icelandic singer Björk released the song Alarm Call on her third album  Homogenic in 1997. It was the fourth single for the album and was ranked number 33 in the UK. This song will have two official music videos of which the first was never released.

The first music video for the song was directed by Paul White from Me Company. It was the same firm that produced the artwork for the Album and their respective singles. The music video is said to have featured Björk in a similar outfit to the one featured on the album cover. There was also said to be a dance scene in the Los Angeles subway system.

Björk was not satisfied with this music video. The second video was directed by fashion designer Alexander McQueen and was filmed in London in October 1998 in two days. Björk was satisfied with this version even stating on MTV News that the music video industry needed a "spank on the bum", and Alexander McQueen was the one to do the music video

No clips, scenes, storyboards, or such have been seen by the public from the first music. Björk also has not mentioned much from the music video. It can be assumed that the music video may not exist anymore.  

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

Wikipedia

Lost Media: The Hypnotic Experiment Screamer

Made using Bing Image Creator

On November 11, 2006, the YouTube channel VeneralbeDread uploaded the video The Hypnotic Experiment. This video was a screamer video and is now considered lost media. As the channel was deleted taking the screamer with it. 

The video begins with the simple instructions of asking to watch at full volume and for the viewers to focus on the center of a moving spiral on the screen. However, 35 seconds in a picture of an eye and a loud scream would happen. The view was tricked by a screamer and it was followed by a message from the creator, "Did I scare you? If so, you have been pranked, AGAIN! MWAHAHAHAHA".

SOURCES:

Screamer Wiki

Lost Film: Mexican Knife Duel

Mexican Knife Duel is a 60-second 1894 black-and-white short silent film. The film was from Edison Studios and produced by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise was the cinematographer. It was filmed in Edison's Black Maria Studio and featured the fighting skills of Mexican Vaqueros, Pedro Esquivel, and Dionecio Gonzales. The film was released on October 6, 1864.

CAST:

Pedro Esquivel

Dionecio Gonzales

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IMDB

Wikipedia

Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge "The Mud Shark Incident" sex tape

Red Snapper Photo by Geeklikepi (not the one used)

On July 28, 1969, what exactly happened at The Edgewater hotel room in Seattle, Washington has been disputed. Factors that remain in the tale were that of a fish, a red-headed groupie, member or members, and road managers of Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge were involved. It would be called the Mud Shark Incident or Shark Episode and there was possibly a sex tape recorded.  There's no denying that this event had happened, but some of the details seem to change or be wrong with each retelling. 

The hotel was on Puget Sound and guests were able to fish right out of the windows of their room. While Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge were staying some of the members had done the same. Led Zeppelin's drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham and road manager, Richard Cole, had done this. When catching them they would put hangers through the gills and hang them in the closet. 

According to Richard Cole, this is what exactly happened.

"It wasn't Bonzo, it was me. It wasn't shark parts anyway - it was the nose that got put in. We caught a lot of big sharks, at least two dozen, stuck coat hangers through the gills and left 'em in the closet... But the true shark story was that it wasn't even a shark. It was a red snapper and the chick happened to be a fucking redheaded broad with a ginger pussy. And that is the truth. Bonzo was in the room, but I did it. The keyboardist to Vanilla Fudge, Mark Stein, filmed the whole thing. And she loved it. It was like, "You'd like a bit of fucking, eh? Let's see how your red snapper likes this red snapper!" That was it. It was the nose of the fish, and that girl must have cum 20 times. But it was nothing malicious or harmful, no way! No one was ever hurt."

The supposed sex tape has never been revealed it's unknown if it still exists to this day. 

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

Snopes

Rollingstone

Lost Music Video: The first music video for Anytime You Need a Friend by Mariah Carey

On May 24, 1994, American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey released her third studio album Music Box. The song Anytime You Need a Friend was the fifth and final single from the album. The gospel-infused song would then release a music video featuring for the first time Mariah Carey with straight hair instead of her signature curly. This music video was however not what was originally supposed to be released. 

The first music video was never released and was scrapped. It's unknown publicly why this music was scrapped. It doesn't show any semblance to what was released and possibly not the look they wanted for it. ET released some behind the scenes from music videos. These are what looks like Mariah in a long gown with a castle theme. While the final music video was based in a city. 

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

Wikipedia

YouTube (Music Video that was released)

YouTube (ET)

Lost Media: Fake Doomsday PSA

 

Isn't an image from PSA and was created in Canva

"Fake Doomsday" or "Hoax Doomsday" are names given to a lost PSA ad shown only on IBC-13 during Top 10 Movie Trailers of the Week in the early 1990s in the Philipines. The PSA was about the biblical end-times prophecy, particularly that of the number of the beast. It was a strange and scary PSA and it was unknown who had created it or why they had. It's possible that it was a fundamentalist Christian group that had done it.

 

The ad would start with the word RAPTURE with a date on the bottom of the screen with the picture of Jesus Christ resurrecting in the background. Throughout the PSA ominous background music and a voice-over with "This is a paid advertisement" on the bottom of the screen. A series of slide show images would follow the title screen. The images were disturbing pictures from the Holocaust with witnesses describing the people in the pictures as being like those from concentration camps. The people were described as sickly, bald, pale, and skinny. Some images featured people being dragged by their necks. The number "666" is featured with a black font and an off-white background and what follows are photos of people with the number 666 on their forehead in the middle to end part of the PSA. The PSA said to end with a picture of Jesus Christ floating resurrecting in Galilee.

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

Lost Film: The Death of Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is a movie actor and martial artist much like his father Bruce Lee. He would start acting in 1986, but his break-out role would not happen until 1994 with the movie The Crow. This however would be his last movie as he would, unfortunately, die on set at the young age of 28-years-old. 

On March 31, 1993, Brandon Lee was filming a scene for the movie The Crow. In this scene, he was shot and killed by thugs. Brandon Lee's character Eric Draven walks into the apartment and finds his fiance had been beaten and raped. Micheal Massee's character, Funboy, shoots and kills Eric. This scene however would become a cruel reality.

The gun used in the scene was a prop (a real revolver) and was loaded with improperly made dummy rounds. The special effects crew made the dummy rounds were improvised from live cartridges that had the powder charges removed. This was so that in close-up shots the rounds would look realistic. However, they had made a mistake by not removing the primers from the cartridges. 

At one point the gun was shot and because the primers were left it left enough energy to separate the bullet from the casing and pushed it part-way into the gun barrel. This is where it was unknowingly stuck known as a squib load. Before the scene, the dummy cartridges were replaced with blank rounds. The blank rounds contained a powder charge and primer, but no solid bullet. This was to have sound and flash effects with no chance of projectile. However, the unknown squib load made this a deadly combination.

When it came to the scene Michael Massee would shoot the gun from  12 to 15 ft toward Brandon Lee. When the gun was shot the dummy bullet would propel forward and hit him in the abdomen. This would cause him to fall backward instead of forward like he was supposed to. The director would end the scene. 

Brandon Lee's stillness was thought to have been acting or him playing around. But when Jeff Imada checked him he was unconscious and breathing heavily. A medic would come forward and see if he hit his head, but no one realized he had been shot since there was no visible bleeding. His pulse would be regular, but within a few minutes, it slowed down dramatically and stopped. 

Brandon Lee would then be rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. There were attempts to save him, but after six hours he would be pronounced dead at 1:03 p.m. It was an unfortunate and sad accident. 

Michael Massee would be traumatized by the accident. He would take a year off from acting and never watched the movie. In 2005 he would state he had nightmares and "I don't think you ever get over something like that."

It is said that the film from the set this day was destroyed. There are some rumors that there were copies of the scene, but these are unfounded. To this day the film has not been released and that's for the best.

SOURCES:
Lost Media Wiki

Wikipedia (Brandon Lee)

Wikipedia (Michael Massee)

IMDB

Lost Film: Innocence (1923)

Innocence is a U.S. silent film released on December 1, 1923. It was directed by Edward J. Le Saint and produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is a 58-minute film and is now presumed to have been lost.

 
PLOT:

Actress Fay Leslie marries a wealthy socialite, Don Hampton, though his family is against it. They'll snobishly accept her for the time. Don is jealous of her fellow actor and friend Paul. Paul would then convicted of a robbery he did not commit. He escapes a work gang, and after fighting with a crew of a train he jumps from it while it's crossing a high trestle bridge. He would dive into the river below.

Fay would help Paul knowing he was innocent. This puts Don and Fays marriage on the rocks as his family is telling him that she is unfaithful. This will lead to Don filing for divorce as he believes it to be true. Fay will visit the attorney and theough her clever acting convices them that she is guiltless and the circumstacial shouldn't be credited. Afgter clearing her name Don and Fay recocil their marriage

CAST:
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Anna Q. Nilsson as Fay Leslie
Freeman Wood as Don Hampton
Earle Foxe as Paul Atkins
Wilfred Lucas as Collingwood
William Scott as Publicity Agent
Marion Harlan as Chorus Girl
Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Hampton
Vera Lewis as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

IMDB

All Movie

Lost Film: Chinese Opium Den (1894)

Chinese Opium Den or also known as Opium Joint is an 1894 short silent film released on October 17, 1894. It was an early motion picture produced by Thomas Edison. The film was made in a 35mm film format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.  It was only a minute long. The film was intended to be displayed through means of a Kinetoscope. The film is considered lost.

There is little information on the film itself. It's believed that it may have been the first motion picture to explore the issue of drug use.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

IMDB

Lost Film: The School for Sons-in Law (1897)

The School for Sons-in-Law is an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès and released by his company Star Film Company. The film was inspired by a vaudeville by French Playwright Eugène Bertol-Graivil (Aka Eugène Domicent). It's presumed to be lost.

It was filmed in the garden of the Méliès family property in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. It had painted scenery and many parts of the set were reused in other films. 

SOURCES:

IMDB

Wikipedia

Lost Film: Law of the Lawless (1923)

The Law of the Lawless is an American silent film released by Paramount Pictures on July 22, 1923. The film was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky and directed by Victor Fleming. The film was 70 minutes long and is believed to be lost.

PLOT:

Tartar girl Sahande is auctioned off so that her father can pay off some debts. Her fiance Sender wanted to buy her but is outbid by Costa, a gypsy chief. Sahande is furious at the outcome and after their wedding night, the newlywed couple makes a deal. She has 10 days to love him or have Sender fight him for her. Sender turns out to be less than honest. He enlists a crowd of men to capture Costa. They lock Costa in a tower and it catches on fire. Sahande comes to the rescue and admits to Costa that he was a better man than Sender. The couple finally falls in love.

CAST:

Dorothy Dalton as Sahande
Charles de Rochefort as Costa (credited as Charles De Roche)
Theodore Kosloff as Sender
Tully Marshall as Ali Mechmet
Fred Huntley as Osman
Margaret Loomis as Fanutza
Frank Coghlan, Jr.
The German Shepherd "Beneva", later "Thunder the Dog" (uncredited)


SOURCES:
Wikipedia
IMDB
All Movie

Lost Film: Les Mousquetaires de la reine (1903)

On June 13, 1903, the french silent film Les Mousquetaires de la reine, sold in the United States as The Queen's Musketeers and in Britain as The Musketeers of the Queen was released by Georges Méliès's company Star Film Company. It was numbered 460-461 in its catalogs. It's assumed that the film is now lost. It's believed to be based on Alexander Duma's novel The Three Musketeers. 

PLOT:

Before going to war with his neighbors the Kind reviews his men. The Queen's musketeers are young men considered the best. These young men maneuver in front of the King, Queen, and the Court performing the most difficult tactics.

 

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

IMDB

Lost Media: A Fake Diamond Swindler (1908)

Georges Méliès in 1938

A Fake Diamond Swindler is a French silent comedy released in May 1908. The film was directed by Georges Méliès. and produced by Star Film Company.

PLOT:

In a laboratory that is full of chemicals and electrical apparatuses, a man claims to have invented a way to create diamonds. He is sought after and is swindling people of their money for his alleged process. The President of diamond mines in South Africa comes to see. He watches a diamond manufactured and receives it as a scarf pin.

The gendarmes enter and drag the impostor to court. During the exciting and ludicrous legal proceedings, he escapes. He knocks officials over and leaves through a window and is followed in hot pursuit. There are many obstacles encountered and overturned, one example being a couple on a park bench. t ends with him caught and behind bars.

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
IMDB

Lost Film: The Purple Dawn

Bessie Love as Hulda in The Flying Torpedo (1916)

The Purple Dawn is a silent romantic film distributed by Aywon Film Corporation on May 10, 1923. 
The film was directed, produced, and written by Charles R. Seeling. The film was 5 reels long. At the time White actors were used to playing other races. This film is now considered lost.

PLOT:

In San Franciso's China Town Chinese American Mui Far falls in love with Bob, a young sailor. Bob gets involved with drug smuggling. When he is delivering a package of opium to Wong Chang, a tong leader, and Mui Far's Father. A rival gang would rob Bob of the goods which lead to his being beaten. Bob would flee to the country and falls in love with a white girl. He forgets all about Mui Far.

The original owners of the opium are furious. They believe that Bob was the one that stole the drugs. Wong Chang finds Bob and kidnaps both him and his new girl. He threatens Bob with death. Mui Far finds out that this had happened and goes to the police. She then reunites the couple and is heartbroken when she realized that their love was doomed from the beginning.

The ending of the movie is not clear as there are two separate claims to the endings. One with Mui Far giving up her love and committing suicide walking in the San Francisco Bay at Dawn. The other is that Mui Far almost does this, but instead doesn't and decides to Marry the man her father chose.

The original owners of the opium think that the sailor stole the opium, and kidnap him and his new sweetheart. Mui Far is heartbroken but rescues the sailor and his new sweetheart. She then commits suicide by walking into San Francisco Bay at dawn

CAST:

Bessie Love as Mui Far
Bert Sprotte as "Red" Carson, the sea captain and dope smuggler
Edward Peil, Sr. as Wong Chong, the Tong leader
William E. Aldrich as Bob, the hero
James B. Leong as Quan Foo
William Horne as Mr. Ketchell
Priscilla Bonner as Ruth Ketchell, Bob's sweetheart

SOURCES:
Wikipedia

IMDB

AFI Catalog

All Movie

Turner Classic Movies

Lost Film: Alice Adams (1923)

Alice Adams is a U.S. silent film drama directed by Rowland V. Lee and produced by King Vidor. It was released on April 8, 1923, and Distributed by Associated Exhibitors. It's based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. This film is considered lost.


PLOT:

Alice Adams is not satisfied with her family's financial situation. She makes up a personality and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. She tries to impress and make a wealthy young man, Arthur Russell, fall for her. Unsatisfied with whom she became in the end she goes to work and helps her father's failing business.


CAST:

• Florence Vidor as Alice Adams
• Claude Gillingwater as Virgil Adams
• Harold Goodwin as Walter Adorns
• Margaret McWade as Mrs. Adams
• Tom Ricketts as J. A. Lamb
• Margaret Landis as Henrietta Lamb
• Gertrude Astor as Mildred Palmer
• Vernon Steele as Arthur Russell

SOURCES:

Wikipedia (film)

Wikipedia (book)

IMDB

All Movie

Lost Film: The White Flower (1923)

 On March 4, 1923 the film The White Flower was released by Paramount Pictures. It was an American silent romantic drama. The film was 6 reels. The film was set in Hawaii and filmed in Honolulu at this time Hawaii was not a state. This was the last picture directed by Julia Crawford Ivers and the film was considered to end on a good note due to this film. She would though continue to write screenplays until her death in 1930.  This film is now considered lost. 

PLOT:

Konia Markham is the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother. She and her father, John, live on the islands. A sorceress would tell her that the person to present a perfect white flower would be her true love. At a banquet, Bob Rutherford, a man visiting the island, offers her a gardenia. She would soon fall in love with him and reject a native priest, David Panuahi. Konia soon finds out that Bob has a fiance, Ethel. Due to jealousy, David would convince Konia to put a death curse on her love rival. Konia soon regrets this and repents her wrongdoings and halts the proceedings. Filled with guilt she prepares to throw herself into the volcano. However, Bob stops her as he loves her and declares his love. Ethel admitting Bob loves Konia willingly gives him up.

CAST:

Betty Compson as Konia Markham
Edmund Lowe as Bob Rutherford
Edward Martindel as John Markham
Arline Pretty as Ethel Granville
Sylvia Ashton as Mrs. Gregory Bolton
Arthur Hoyt as Gregory Bolton
Leon Barry as David Panuahi
Lily Philips as Bernice Martin
Reginald Carter as Edward Graeme
Maui Kaito as Kahuna

SOURCES:
Wikipedia
Silent Era
All Movie
IMDB

Coming Attraction Lantern Slides

Lost Film: The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1909)

The Fountain of Bakhchisaray is a Russian short silent drama film released in 1909. The film was directed by Yakov Protazanov


CAST:

Vladimir Shaternikov as Khan
Mariya Korolyova as Zarema
Yelizaveta Uvarova
Aleksey Muravin



PLOT:

The Crimean Khan Giray brings Maria to the harem. Zarema is filled with jealousy as she loves Khan more than anything. Zarema tells this Maria this and Maria admits she did not want to be a part of the Harem. She was eager for freedom and understood that it was only possible with death. Khan learns of Maria's death and orders the execution of Zarema. This would build a fountain of tears.


SOURCES:
Wikipedia
IMDB

Lost Film: The Virgin of the Seminole (1922)

 The Virgin of the Seminole is a 1922 Race Film directed, produced, and written by Oscar Micheaux. This film came out on December 5, 1922, and is considered lost.

CAST:

• William Fountaine
• Shingzie Howard
• Louise Borden

PLOT:

A young black man joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and goes on an adventure to rescue a captive biracial woman. She's being held by a hostile American Indian tribe. He rescues the woman and acquires a great reward. He would then purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation of great wealth.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

IMDB

Silent Era

Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers pg 249