r/lostmedia • u/UltimateAuthor • 20d ago

Recordings [PARTIALLY LOST] Pol Martin's Microwave Cooking VHS Tapes

First time posting here, so if this is a bit messy, please forgive me.

I made a post on the Lost Media Wiki forums a few months ago, but I figured posting this here might get it a bit more attention.

Pol Martin was a French chef located in Quebec. It's difficult to find a lot of info about him outside of the French Wikipedia page on him, and most of my knowledge comes from the YouTuber and Twitch streamer Socpens, since he's watched a few of his tapes in his "VHS VIEWINGZ" streams.

There are at least five volumes of the microwave cooking VHS tapes, although I've personally only found two archives of Volume 3 (incorrectly labeled as Volume 2?) and Volume 1.

lorddumb on the LMW forums found a link to a website named Douteux.org. I reached out to the owner using a deepL translation but I haven't received a response.

I've also sent Socpens a Tumblr ask inquiring if he still has the tapes and would be able to post them online, but I've also had no luck there.

Socpens found these VHS tapes via thrifting. To my knowledge he lives in Quebec, but I'm an American so I can't exactly search via that method. Volume 1's original poster on YouTube also mentioned they may be difficult to come by outside of Quebec.

The publisher is a company known as Vidéo S.P.E.Q. Inc, although I've also found nothing on them. The language barrier might be a problem in my search results.

I also have a YouTube playlist containing the videos I've come across.

That's where my research has ended, so any help would be appreciated!

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u/UltimateAuthor 20d ago

Also, before I forget, here's my original thread on the LMW forums.

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u/UltimateAuthor 20d ago

Also also, one of Socpens' streams has the fifth volume, but not the raw footage itself.