Hi! So I was just watching this video by strange aeons and she mentions in it a lost documentary called Lesbians Go Mad on Lesbos. It seems to be a trashy early 2000s reality show kind of thing, and I'm really interested in knowing what it contained, as there seems to be some backlash to it at the time.
So does anyone know how I can try and go about finding it? I haven't tried looking for lost media before
Posted Mar 23, 2022, 3:37 PM UTC
I was literally just watching StrangeEons.
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Ok guys, I have just been on the phone with Channel 5. They said due to them moving systems, they have basically no info on the show. All they know is that it did air 2000/2001 and to contact wow for a copy.
Furthermore, they have lost the rights to the show, so they cannot air it again, and they don't even have a physical copy anymore. I guess it was purged when the system changed.
I'd put out a request to libraries and archivists.
Edit: WOW (world of wonder) has a contract with the BBC here in the UK, I'm contacting the archive department to see if the copy was passed on to them potentially. Also the BBC like to just archive all of the UK so they might have a VHS recording anyway
Okay, progress report: the British Film Institute has a copy in their archives. http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmItems/156419105
downside is as best I can tell it's only viewable on their premises in London. I've contacted them to confirm whether this is the case.
Aside from that we now know for sure that it aired 11/1/01, which greatly narrows the search for chance recordings of it. I've made a couple inquiries in this direction, but no hits.
Any progress?
Oh! Someone on the discord server beat me to it. Might be on archive.org by now.
Hi! I was looking for something about this after getting round to watching StrangeAeons' video on it (the 26th May one) and I was wondering if anyone got round to checking out the BFI version of it. Cause according to Teya the one uploaded to archive.org is the San Francisco Public Library version that was a damaged tape and it led to that black and white, grainy, cutting up video we have.
Since I live in Scotland and am going to London in like a week, I was thinking if no one has done so yet / is going to soon I could try to track it down??
Oh it's viewable by appointment, but as best I can tell there's no means of making a copy of it.
It is! Thank you.
I recorded this documentary off channel 5 at the time and still have it on vhs.
Would it be possible for you to upload it online?
A group of staff and Customers from the Candy Bar and their friends create a holiday package on the island of lesbos with a firm in Lesbos. The mayor thinks it's going to be a sex party and the local news agencies get involved. The girls do get to go and have a lesbian holiday package. Its actually both entertaining and funny. Mental it's over 20 years old. Wonder what all the girls are doing now. Channel 5 should get on it and have a reunion. Lol.
I cannot find anything in Greek news about this, I am just interested in seeing what it's about.
i'm also interested in traking down this film! however, i'm not from the uk, so i don't think i'll serve much help...
if anyone is still interested it can be found at Lesbos go mad in Lesbos!
You're into some wierd shit
I'm just interested in queer history tbh
Different strokes I guess
Since when is gay history "weird shit" ??
I wasn't aware there was much "history".
Why are you so triggered by gay history? As for "wasn't aware there was much history", I guess you've never heard of the classical world, in which case you seem manifestly ill-equipped to make any judgments on what you awareness might indicate about history.
Mind explaining the scare quotes?
Came here to search for the exact same thing-- production company said there's never been a DVD or streaming release when I emailed them, so we're on to other formats. going by this Guardian article, it aired January 2001 prior to the 12th, but likely only by a couple days, on Channel 5.
I've a couple friends who do lost media preservation, so my next plan is to see what advice they can offer.
(for context, I'm the guy that tracked down the copy of Gimme Sugar that briefly appeared in the video you linked-- if you're on her patreon discord, my current handle is 'Lucus, Knower of Bonkle'. Feel free to say hi!)