Midnight Horror School (found production video of CGI anime; 2000s)
The Midnight Horror School characters.
Status: Found
Date found: 16 Jan 2022
Found by: SnowPecola097
Midnight Horror School was a Japanese CGI kids TV series made by Naomi Iwata in collaboration with Milky Cartoon. It is about a group of strange creatures and their lives in school. The production video for the series is extremely hard to find on the internet.
Background
Sometime around 2016, now-deactivated Tumblr user nsponge200 located a production video of the series Midnight Horror School. The link was reblogged by user dockymhs, which preserved the post even after the original user’s deactivation. The post states,
“I found this production video of MHS episode 1a but with some deleted scenes, and no sound/background music but the voices.”
The post also contains a link to a website for the company ‘Purepics’[1]. These two Tumblr users are the only people noted to have seen this footage before its deletion. It was previously listed under the 2002 section of the Purepics works page, under the title “2002 ミッドナイトホラースクール ミッドナイトホラースクール” It was removed from the Purepics website sometime after Nov 22nd, 2015, found from the last capture on the Wayback page.
Availability
The Purepics website is publicly accessible, but the Midnight Horror School page has since been removed from their works portfolio.
The video was originally hosted at this address, but is no longer accessible. A backup of the website exists on the Wayback machine, but the page content is unable to be loaded.[2] Contact with Purepics has been unsuccessful, and any social media of theirs was last updated on April 19th, 2018.
On January 16, 2022, YouTube user SnowPecola097 uploaded the MHS Production Video and is now available to be viewed on YouTube. They stated that they had downloaded the video prior before it got deleted from Purepics' website. The filename for the production video entitled "MHS01A_anim_1223_1.mp4" had been sitting on their computer for years and had been uploaded one time but deleted due to possible copyright claims. They also have uploaded the production video on their Google Drive available to be seen for archival and backup purposes.[3]
External Links
- Purepics' website. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- Purepics' old website on the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- The Tumblr post on the discovery of the production video. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- Purepics' Facebook page. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- Purepics' Twitter account. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
References
- ↑ A page on Purepics' website. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- ↑ An archive of the Purepics website on the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 07 Jun '19
- ↑ Backup video link uploaded by SkyPecola097 on their Google Drive Retrieved 16 Jan '22