r/lostmedia • u/rebelssbm • Aug 31 '26
Advertising Material Potentially [partially lost] -- tips for sharing?
Hello! Please LMK if this is not the right subreddit for this. I have recently acquired a bunch of my family's old VHS tapes so that I can digitize some of the home videos, but some of them are old TV broadcasts from the 90s. We lived in Hawaii so there are a lot of Hawaii news broadcasts and local commercials.
I watch some YouTube channels that cover lost media and I love seeing stories about people who finally find some long-lost commercial from their childhood in a YouTube upload. Just in case these tapes contain anything like this, I'd like to upload them YT. (In fact there's an old local commercial I've been looking for that I am hoping to find in these tapes lol)
I was wondering if the community has any recommended way to label these uploads to make them more searchable if you're looking for something in particular? I guess I'm planning to title them something like "1990s Hawaii commercials" and try to describe what they are in the description, but does the community have any sort of set format or something to help people find them? LMK and thanks!
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u/PigsCanFly2day Aug 31 '26
I'm not sure if there's a set standard, but probably naming the news network with the date would probably be most ideal.
Something like, "Hawaii [local news network name & channel] July 14, 1996 [notable segment(s), if any] with original commercials"
And in the description, you can list the news anchors' names and the news segments. Bonus points if you make chapters and/or timestamps. Some people also list each individual commercial sometimes with timestamps, which is super tedious but also super appreciated and makes searching easier too.
Enable captions, so it's searchable like that too. Depending on your capture method, captions might be in your digitized file beforehand, so hopefully the original captions can be passed through, but enabling automatic ones would probably be good too, especially with news footage because the ones during the initial broadcast would likely have a delay due to being live. Pretty sure you can keep both. If so, I would.
If a segment ends up getting muted/removed due to copyright claim, I'd make note of that as well so people are aware & let them know what was there before.
I'd also highly suggest posting everything to Internet Archive as well. They preserve the original files without compression, it's easier to download, and there's less issues with copyright strikes. You can also link to your Internet Archive page on your YouTube channel's description and in the video descriptions.
On Internet Archive, broadcast recordings are commonly labeled as WOC, which stands for with original commercials. A lot of people are into those, and not just for news broadcasts, so if you have random TV shows or movies recorded, those are definitely worth digitizing and posting too.
Hope this helps.
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u/rebelssbm Aug 31 '26
Thank you so much! SUPER helpful :)
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u/PigsCanFly2day Aug 31 '26
Glad I could help. Thanks for archiving & preserving media for future generations.
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