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Not everything that was recorded was meant to survive.

Entire films, television broadcasts, songs, and recordings once existed—then vanished. Not censored. Not destroyed on purpose. Simply lost.

From early television wiped for reuse, to forgotten reels locked in private collections, lost media represents the gaps in humanity’s recorded memory. What survives is often accidental. What disappears rarely leaves a trace.

In this episode of The Unanswered Archive, we explore the world of lost media: how it happens, why so much of our cultural history was never preserved, and how modern archivists and researchers attempt to recover fragments of what’s missing.

History isn’t just written by the victors.
It’s written by what survives.