Lost media discovery, the art of media archeology where intrepid researchers dig for as much as they can on films, television shows, and animation long abandoned and considered dead, has been given a lot of attention over the past few months over recent discoveries.
A pilot for an American Sailor Moon that was known to exist was finally captured and posted to YouTube in full, a lost episode of Sesame Street starring The Wizard of Oz‘s Margaret Hamilton unfortunately considered too frightening for children, and even a full animatic of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Popeye.
While there are more ghoulish examples of lost media which we can only hope never see the light of day, it can be a way of breaking down a wall that seems impenetrable between executives and audiences.
When a work is discarded, it’s completely shielded from the eyes of the public, a work that is
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