Uncommon Ephemera
@uncommonephemera.org
Citizen archivist. The only person on earth preserving filmstrips. Lost Media hunter. Don't talk to me about politics.
EARLY ACCESS: Patreon supporters just got early access to a newly-restored filmstrip. Head over to Patreon to check it out, but first: What do you think is going on here? Wrong answers only.
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
EARLY ACCESS: Patreon supporters just got early access to a newly-restored filmstrip. Head over to Patreon to check it out, but first: What do you think is going on here? Wrong answers only.
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This weird #filmstrip on driving hazards sponsored by Shell Oil either has a soundtrack or a teacher's guide, but without them, it makes no sense.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This weird #filmstrip on driving hazards sponsored by Shell Oil either has a soundtrack or a teacher's guide, but without them, it makes no sense.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to the @archive.org: This home economics #filmstrip about lamb was produced by "The Lamb Education Center," because of course it was. Unfortunately, it's missing its soundtrack.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Scanned and uploaded to the @archive.org: This home economics #filmstrip about lamb was produced by "The Lamb Education Center," because of course it was. Unfortunately, it's missing its soundtrack.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
LIVE ALL DAY: Watch #lostmedia getting saved, right as it comes off the scanner. In the office all day preserving media, all destined for @archive.org when it's done.
Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
or watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqr...
Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
or watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqr...
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
LIVE ALL DAY: Watch #lostmedia getting saved, right as it comes off the scanner. In the office all day preserving media, all destined for @archive.org when it's done.
Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
or watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqr...
Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
or watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqr...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This #filmstrip discusses the origin of heraldry, which is the practice of using emblems like coats of arms. Unfortunately, it's missing its soundtrack.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This #filmstrip discusses the origin of heraldry, which is the practice of using emblems like coats of arms. Unfortunately, it's missing its soundtrack.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This is all that's left of the #filmstrip adaptation of the 1973 Roger Duvoisin book "The Crocodile in the Tree," due to it being printed on Eastmancolor stock. To add insult to injury, it's missing its soundtrack.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This is all that's left of the #filmstrip adaptation of the 1973 Roger Duvoisin book "The Crocodile in the Tree," due to it being printed on Eastmancolor stock. To add insult to injury, it's missing its soundtrack.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
IN THE OFFICE: Scanning rare #filmstrips all day. 100% #lostmedia, destined for @archive.org. Zero slop content, just the quiet work of saving things before they're gone forever. This is what media preservation looks like. Come keep me company. Links below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
IN THE OFFICE: Scanning rare #filmstrips all day. 100% #lostmedia, destined for @archive.org. Zero slop content, just the quiet work of saving things before they're gone forever. This is what media preservation looks like. Come keep me company. Links below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: Did you know at least one company sold blank #filmstrips and markers so you could make your own? That's how this filmstrip on bullfighting came to be made by two schoolchildren in Rochester, NY.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: Did you know at least one company sold blank #filmstrips and markers so you could make your own? That's how this filmstrip on bullfighting came to be made by two schoolchildren in Rochester, NY.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
IN THE OFFICE: Scanning rare #filmstrips all day. 100% #lostmedia, destined for @archive.org. No flashy edits, no slop content, just the quiet work of saving things before they're gone forever. Pull up a chair if you want to see what media preservation actually looks like. Links below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
IN THE OFFICE: Scanning rare #filmstrips all day. 100% #lostmedia, destined for @archive.org. No flashy edits, no slop content, just the quiet work of saving things before they're gone forever. Pull up a chair if you want to see what media preservation actually looks like. Links below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
LIVE NOW: Looking for endangered and #lostmedia on #VHS tapes that we can upload to @archive.org. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live now on Twitch!
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
LIVE NOW: Looking for endangered and #lostmedia on #VHS tapes that we can upload to @archive.org. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live now on Twitch!
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight at 7pm EST on Twitch.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
I don't like asking for money. But I'm the only person saving filmstrips, and I can't do it without help.
$69 of $30,000, ten days in. Please donate if you can. Please share if you can't.
uncommonephemera.org/donate
$69 of $30,000, ten days in. Please donate if you can. Please share if you can't.
uncommonephemera.org/donate
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I don't like asking for money. But I'm the only person saving filmstrips, and I can't do it without help.
$69 of $30,000, ten days in. Please donate if you can. Please share if you can't.
uncommonephemera.org/donate
$69 of $30,000, ten days in. Please donate if you can. Please share if you can't.
uncommonephemera.org/donate
NEWLY RESTORED AT @archive.org: This 1985 filmstrip for Gen X latchkey kids covers the basics of safety when home alone, with several dramatized examples.
WATCH NOW: archive.org/details/unco...
WATCH NOW: archive.org/details/unco...
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
NEWLY RESTORED AT @archive.org: This 1985 filmstrip for Gen X latchkey kids covers the basics of safety when home alone, with several dramatized examples.
WATCH NOW: archive.org/details/unco...
WATCH NOW: archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1953 geography #filmstrip shows how people live in three regions in four states - Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1953 geography #filmstrip shows how people live in three regions in four states - Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: Part of a series on life in medieval times, this #filmstrip shows what life was like in a castle. That pattern you see is not part of the film, it's the film binder beginning to fail; the final boss of Eastmancolor stock.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: Part of a series on life in medieval times, this #filmstrip shows what life was like in a castle. That pattern you see is not part of the film, it's the film binder beginning to fail; the final boss of Eastmancolor stock.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1968 #filmstrip is a systematic analysis of American writer Mark Twain, but it's missing its soundtrack. Fun Fact: producer Howard Decker once offered me his archive, then ghosted me. Or he might have died.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1968 #filmstrip is a systematic analysis of American writer Mark Twain, but it's missing its soundtrack. Fun Fact: producer Howard Decker once offered me his archive, then ghosted me. Or he might have died.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1949 #filmstrip is a biography of the American writer and diplomat Washington Irving.
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This 1949 #filmstrip is a biography of the American writer and diplomat Washington Irving.
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archive.org/details/unco...
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This intense 1951 religious #filmstrip tells the story of a steamer captain who takes an orphan into his care; the orphan dies which causes the captain to believe in God. Wait... what?
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archive.org/details/unco...
January 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Scanned and uploaded to @archive.org: This intense 1951 religious #filmstrip tells the story of a steamer captain who takes an orphan into his care; the orphan dies which causes the captain to believe in God. Wait... what?
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
IN THE OFFICE: Saving rare media including filmstrips, a format no one else is trying to save. Watch #lostmedia as it comes off the scanner before it's uploaded to @archive.org.
Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
YouTube: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
YouTube: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
IN THE OFFICE: Saving rare media including filmstrips, a format no one else is trying to save. Watch #lostmedia as it comes off the scanner before it's uploaded to @archive.org.
Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
YouTube: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
YouTube: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
Scanned and Uploaded to @archive.org: Part of a series on American geography, this 1954 #filmstrip focuses on the Willamette-Puget Sound Lowland in Washington and Oregon.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Scanned and Uploaded to @archive.org: Part of a series on American geography, this 1954 #filmstrip focuses on the Willamette-Puget Sound Lowland in Washington and Oregon.
archive.org/details/unco...
archive.org/details/unco...
LIVE ALL DAY: In the office saving #filmstrips and other media! Come keep me company while I save #lostmedia no one else is saving so I can upload it to @archive.org.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
OR TWITCH: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
OR TWITCH: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
LIVE ALL DAY: In the office saving #filmstrips and other media! Come keep me company while I save #lostmedia no one else is saving so I can upload it to @archive.org.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
OR TWITCH: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
WATCH ON YOUTUBE: youtube.com/live/2f02LNV...
OR TWITCH: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
LIVE NOW: Searching for endangered and #lostmedia on donated #VHS tapes we can upload to @archive.org. IS THIS ANYTHING? is back from holiday break!
WATCH NOW: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
WATCH NOW: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
LIVE NOW: Searching for endangered and #lostmedia on donated #VHS tapes we can upload to @archive.org. IS THIS ANYTHING? is back from holiday break!
WATCH NOW: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
WATCH NOW: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Weird stuff? Local commercials? Rare or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? returns tonight at 7pm EST.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Weird stuff? Local commercials? Rare or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? returns tonight at 7pm EST.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
BACK FROM BREAK TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on these newly-donated #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? returns tonight at 7pm EST.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
BACK FROM BREAK TONIGHT 7PM EST: What's on these newly-donated #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Endangered or #lostmedia we can upload to @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? returns tonight at 7pm EST.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...