I have spent the last 30 years or so looking for something I saw as a kid. It was a short film on a more obscure TV channel here in the UK, BBC2 I think, and it was very “student film”. I think it came from somewhere in Eastern Europe, but I might be wrong. It really struck me at that young age and I would love to find it again, but am sadly losing hope.
It was a view of a simple room with a door and a window from a fixed angle. Everything happened via stop-motion animation, but was represented by real people and things, the room itself was also real.
The entire film could perhaps describe the “life” of the room; all of the things it “saw” and all of the people who lived there. There was a man who stood on a chair to change a light bulb, a woman that came in carrying an infant, a bird that flew in through a window, amongst other things.
All of those events meshed together with one new event being added at a time, they were separate but connected, and none of the actions ever crossed paths although they repeated endlessly.
The background music was a single instrument, cello as far as I remember, played in the style of a march with heavy sweeping strokes.
Anyway, thread about lost media, maybe we can help each other out.
Yeah me too. I’d especially like to see more from the 70’s and 80’s archived, because a lot of that is now being lost to time because it was never digitised. I assume you’ve heard of all the “Doctor Who” episodes that were lost, because the BBC recorded over them! But that was long before VCR’s so not much to be done there.
GOG has a good selection of old games, but there are so many of them that are a real pain to get running on modern systems that they’re just not available. One of them is an adventure game called “Black Dahlia”:
Black Dahlia is a 1998 interactive movie point-and-click adventure game developed by Take-Two Interactive and released on February 25, 1998, for Microsoft Windows. The game is loosely inspired by the real-life unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, known as the “Black Dahlia,” and ties her story to fictional Nazi occultism and the Cleveland Torso Murderer.
I used to have a friend that came over to visit, and we’d sit and solve adventure games, the more complicated the better. That one was brilliant, really tricky puzzles, it took us a while to beat. I tried to get it running on a modern PC, but it was a nightmare - all the usual tricks didn’t work. So eventually I had to use software called “PCem” to create a fake PC with a very custom setup, it took days to get running smoothly.
I still have the ISO’s downloaded and they are pretty easy to find online, but trying to package a solution that works out of the box is almost impossible. There are loads of old games like that, with custom code adapted to the system calls of the time that don’t like virtual machines much and would need parts rewritten to run on anything we have now.
I sometimes go on an old games trip, sometimes for a month at a time, and it’s always fun - I have a pretty big GOG library.
This was lost media for a while, loads of people remembered seeing it, but it was thought lost to time. However, ninja sleuths on the internet managed to uncover it again, and now it’s been restored.
