There are films we will never forget. For example, “The Zapruder Film” proved that a President of the United States was assassinated in Dallas from many dozens of coordinated sniper nest positions. And then there is “Debbie Does Dallas” which is a longer version of the Zapruder Film.
The Zapruder Film: a popular title you can purchase at Amazon
I can't handle all that visceral horror. Instead, I prefer dead literary and popular culture icons who collaborated with large television companies. For one reason or another, the projects failed and were never televised. I love these forgotten pieces of history. Here are some of my recommendations:
The Hallmark Channel, known for its cartoon-like optimism in the face of life crushing obstacles, filmed but ultimately chose to never televise “Latch-Key Daddy,” the one hour episode written and narrated by Sylvia Plath.
A&E removed Pablo Picasso’s painting workshop “Spare Wife in Cube Form,” from their seasonal rotation after the company learned that the art produced for the show was done by a six year old boy named Jocko.
MTV never released fourteen half-hour episodes of Jack Kerouac getting drunk. “Haiku Blues,” filmed entirely in a thicket of pines, follows Jack into the void.
The Gameshow Network cancelled “Tea with Ted” half way through the first taping. Ted Nugent hosts this winner takes all event where men in loincloths hurl spears into lace doilies at increasing distances.
The Documentary Channel gave up waiting for editors to finish Earnest Hemingway’s “Save One Bullet for Me;” a true story about a weary man who acts stoically and heroically in the face of Nature’s grinding indifference.
The Weather Channel used Amelia Earhart’s flight path to gauge hurricane patterns in “I’m With Her,” but cancelled the episode when meteorologists, the film crew, the pilot, and all of their belongings disappeared mysteriously over the Pacific Ocean.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: also from Amazon
Also, I'd like you to know about my local access television station's feature on an adult man chasing down the twelve-year-old who’d been knocking over the trash cans. It is dark and grainy footage, but trust me. It happened.
Thank you.
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