Every Lost Footage Legend Is Fake (Except 2001: A Space Odyssey)

It seems to have been deliberately buried. Another day in the yard!!!! In April 1968, 250 people walked out of the New York premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Within a week Stanley Kubrick had cut it down, and the scenes he took out have never been shown since. Thirty years later he had his own negatives driven to an industrial waste lot and burned. Then, in 2010, somebody in a Toronto cinema asked Douglas Trumbull one question. So every lost footage legend goes through the same three questions. Was it filmed? Did anyone see it? Does it still exist? King Kong's spider pit. London After Midnight. The Wizard of Oz "hanging munchkin". The ghost in Three Men and a Baby. The Independence Day deleted scene 343 of you remember. And the one where Kubrick faked the Moon landing. Only one passes all three. Also in this one: why nitrate film keeps burning underwater, the front-projection trick that made a leopard's eyes glow (same physics as the mirrors Apollo left on the Moon), why a 275-million-year-old salt bed is the safest place on Earth for a negative, and the vinegar clock that's still ticking on it. Verdict: LOCKED. Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:41 Why old film disappears 3:16 King Kong's spider pit 4:55 London After Midnight 6:18 The ghost, the bird and our own comment 8:02 Did Kubrick fake the Moon? 10:43 The 19 minutes Kubrick cut 13:05 The salt mine 17:01 Verdict 18:31 Outro Which lost footage legend did we miss? Bring receipts. Narrated by: Me :) Sources - 2001 premiere (2 April 1968), the post-premiere cuts (5-9 April, Kubrick and Ray Lovejoy), Keir Dullea on the walkouts, Jan Harlan and Leon Vitali on the burned trims, front projection, the destroyed props: Wikipedia "2001: A Space Odyssey (film)" and its sources - Douglas Trumbull, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 9 Dec 2010 (TIFF Rewind); reported by TheWrap and /Film (16 Dec 2010), The A.V. Club and ScreenAnarchy (17 Dec 2010) - Warner Bros. statement: /Film, 20 Dec 2010 - David Pierce, "The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929", CLIR / Library of Congress (2013) - Image Permanence Institute, "Storage Guide for Acetate Film" (J. Reilly) - Underground Vaults & Storage / Strataca, Hutchinson KS; Michael N. Ross, "Salt of the Earth" (2021); EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Rolling Stone, NPR, 2026) - 1937 Fox vault fire (Little Ferry NJ); London After Midnight and the 1965 MGM vault fire (Jon Mirsalis); Three Men and a Baby ghost; Snopes on the Oz munchkin; Ray Morton, "King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon" - NASA: Apollo 15 hammer-feather drop, Apollo 16 rover; Apache Point Observatory lunar laser ranging Film clips are used under fair use for commentary and criticism: 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM / Warner Bros.), King Kong (RKO), London After Midnight (MGM, reconstruction), The Wizard of Oz (MGM / Warner Bros.), Three Men and a Baby (Touchstone), Independence Day (20th Century Fox). Real-world footage: TIFF, NASA, CBS Sunday Morning, FOX 11 Los Angeles, Farm Journal, Wichita Eagle, JohntheMouse, Kino Lorber (Filmworker), Festival de Cannes, CinemaTyler, Adam Savage's Tested, Rayle Archive, Cube-Tec, Vinegar Syndrome, NEON (EPiC), SciShow, Rhett Allain, NEWS CENTER Maine, WayneWestPhotography, Denis Shiryaev, HistoryPod, animateangus (Weta's spider pit), Antonia Carlotta, The Tonight Show, 1800gotghost.