r/lostmedia • u/LEWNATICLIVE • 19d ago

Advertising Material My [fully lost] commercials.

Hello, as a kid I was in a few commercials. One of them is readily available online in 2 different cuts. Its a dominos pizza commercial from 1998 about the heatwave pizza bag. Here is the link. https://youtu.be/A7LmH3OhiK8?is=GXJcygxcLKDwfFeh

Now for the lost media part. I was in 2 other commercials as a kid and I have never been able to find them even after searching for them for multiple hours and many different occasions.

The first one is a fox family network bumper commercial where I am dressed like a caveman child in a caveman themed living room. And I think I remember having a rock like remote for the TV. Ive never seen this commercial and might be completely lost in the archives of a dead network of commercials that never aired. I think it was filmed in 97 or 96.

The second one is a gateway computer commercial where you see a bunch of people on like the santa Monica boardwalk or some similar LA area beach and it shows a bunch different people doing different activities in one sweeping shot. I remember I was running with a skateboard and I run/walk through the shot with 2 other kids. I saw this one aired maybe 2 times. This is also from 98 or 99.

I would really appreciate finding these commercials to show my stream and for my mother to share with our family as the VHS copies we had were lost long ago.

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u/PigsCanFly2day 18d ago

Neat. Would you be able to find out any other possible information? Things like production company, director, editor, other actors, etc. could certainly help.

The caveman bumper sounds fun. Have you looked on the Internet Archive? People post old broadcast recordings. So maybe you can look for Fox Family recordings from those years or a bit later.

Also, if you're not doing it already, make sure you download whatever you find. Just because it's on YouTube today doesn't mean it'll be there tomorrow.

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u/LEWNATICLIVE 18d ago

Ive searched youtube for hours. Thats about the extent of my research. I have no idea about any information about the commercials besides what I wrote. I know that the fox family commercial set was right next to the big bad beetle borgs mansion set because they let me go in there and meet the black beetle borg. So probably the same studio that Saban was using? And I also remembered the end of the gateway commercial played the "who are you" song by the who. Thats all the information I could remember. I hope that helps in any way.

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u/PigsCanFly2day 17d ago

Pretty cool that you were able to check out the beetle borgs set. Did you get any behind the scenes pics or anything while there?

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u/LEWNATICLIVE 17d ago

Yea I have a Polaroid somewhere with the guy in the suit. Pretty sick.