User blog:Baranosdragon/The most well known lost media of Neon District/Neonia and NRTN in its whole

Nicknames : "The Logo That Just... Dissapeared, I Guess.", "Canal 3 Rosario's Older Brother" "So Scary, It's Not Funny"

From somewhere in early - mid - late 1963 to March 16th, 1964(?), NRTN (as the time known as NDRB) decided that they needed to warn children at 7:59pm that the following programs on NDRB TV (now NRTN 1) were not made for them. So, they decided to make a logo for it. The broadcasting company's artist team made something that would look like it came from a childrens program. In reality, though, it would become one of the most terrifying things that children would've saw on television, and one of the most infamous "scary logos" in the country's history.

Logo : On a purple sky, we see a semi-transparent narrow box, with on it we see a dark orange-bright yellow circle with a white smiley face on it, with barely readable transparent text in serif text saying "CHILDREN'S PROTECTION HOUR" on it.

FX/SFX : None. As it was just a camera pointing at the logo, making it effectively a still image, also called a telop or a slide.

Music/Sounds : Some weird-sounding, strange and unsettling early synthesizer droning combined with some night time ambience and most infamous of all, a creepy laugh, which ends in a cough. Then, after (presumably) 9 seconds, it cuts short and the sound of an English/Japanese/Chinese/Spanish/Portuguese/Korean announcer announcing that it is the end of the Children's Protection Hour and that the following programs may or may not be suitable for children.

Availability : Read the title. Otherwise, extinct.

Children, who had tuned in between 1 hour - just a few moments before, saw this, and were unsettled, creeped out, and most occasionally, terrified. For some reason, not a single parent even bothered to file a complaint to the state-owned broadcasting network, and it stayed on television up until the rebrand of NDRB (yet again, now known as NRTN.) on March 16th, 1964, when it was automatically pulled from television. Eventually, in about around 2008 - late 2009, some television fanatics who had grown up in the late 1950s - early 1960s and saw this, discussed about it on the forums. Some people said that they had strange memories of a bumper, trying to warn children watching at the time to turn off their TV or face the consequences, with creepy visuals and that freaking laugh. Eventually, some people tried to contact NRTN about it. They said that they looked through their entire archives for that year of 1963 and the first 3 months of 1964, but couldn't even find anything closely related to it. Eventually, it started to dawn on them on what had happened. Something was missing.

One Station in Rosario (1963 - 1993)
This Children's Protection Hour bumper proceeded to broadcast every single day from somewhere in 1963 at the exact same time, right when the clock hit 7:59pm. But on March 16th, 1964, when NDRB rebranded into something more friendlier, the Director of Art for NDRB on the open studio day that day said that "he didn't want to ever see that f*cking face ever again [sic]" and requested all of the copies of airings of it to be destroyed, except two, a reel of tape and a 16mm film reel, in which he both kept. The physical slide itself, however, was stored deep down into a basement in the television broadcaster's basement. It only resurfaced in 1992, during an anniversary tape that showcased it. Except, it was a camera recording of a black and white airing (color television in Neon District (also more commonly known as Neonia) only arrived in 1965), and it only showed the part where the announcer was talking, and not the infamous part with the creepy audio. Eventually, though, they wanted to get rid of it. It was sold to a television worker in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina in late 1992 and he used it for something that recieved similar reception. And then, we enter the only case of where a modified version of lost media that was lost media for years was showcased.

Canal 3 (1993 - 1994)
"This THING is hell itself. After coming back to it, I felt alone, like I was in the dark, hearing nothing but the strangest sounds ever. It gives every horror movie a run for its money."

- A viewer from Argentina that saw this bumper during his childhood

The slide, with the exact same audio (the audio tape of the bumper/telop/slide (i have absolutely no idea on what word to use here) was also sold over to Rosario. The worker, named [REDACTED], worked at the station of Canal 3 Rosario, now El Tres TV. Viewers watching the television station growing up during this period were obvilously very freaked out by it. But how it even managed to get the same audio as NDRB TV's, yet alone how NDRB even made it, is a mystery.

Sanlorencino1981 (2010)
On Janurary 17th, 2008, an Argentine YouTuber named Sanlorencino1981 (the end number presumably being his birth year) joined YouTube. His most popular videos are clips from the Falklands War, but he has also uploaded a lot of archives of Argentinan television from 1981 - 1999. On February 25th, 2010, he uploaded a video titled "LT 83 TV Canal 3 Rosario- 1993 - Horario de Protección al menor". The videos contents was that of the "Temporada 1993" bumper at the beginning, and then the Horario de Protección Al Menor slide that had aired on NDRB TV barely just 30 years before. But, the full logo had not been found yet.

The hunt (2010 - 2022)
Upon people from Neon District/Neonia finding this logo for the first time, they immediately remembered something. Was this it? Was this that one slide from NDRB that scared so many children back in 1963 - 1964? Well, apparently, it was not. It had been digitally remastered, and some elements were slightly different. Immediately after, a hunt for the original bumper, which was now lost media, was started. People looked everywhere, and every single time NRTN updated their archives, you just know that the inevitable question would be asked at one point. "Have you found the slide yet?". No matter how many times they were asked, they just didn't have it. And it got worse in 2016, when the former art director that had ordered all copies to be destroyed, died. But, when he died, he left his 43 year old son a lot of things in his will, including the tape and the 16mm film reel. His son later worked at NRTN, and he put both the tape and the film reel in the archive. Except, they didn't know which archival room, but eventually, they found evidence.

Footage has been found? (December 18th, 2022)
On December 18th, 2022, on the group that was searching for the bumper, aswell as many other Neonian and Aritonesian lost media, including Flower Film Production's many older films, somebody joined. It turns out he was about 18 in 1964, and was filming stuff on TV with a 16mm camera with sound. He posted one video, and the quality may have been poor, but they had found the full thing. It may have been very partially spliced, and very scratched and damaged (and also very grainy), but it was here. With the exact same footage and audio. Finally.

The official recovery (Janurary 18th, 2023)
Immediately after that, celebrations began. But not just that, NRTN had updated their archives again. When the single question wasn't asked, though, they revealed that they had had it. Everybody thought that they had been hiding it, just because that the questions were asked, but they said that it hadn't been in any of their main archives for years before, up until now. They then digitally processed the Quad Tape recording, which was in full high quality, and albeit damaged, and in black and white, and with a time recording and an on-screen bug, and then they digitized the 16mm recording, which was raw, had no time recording and/or an on-screen bug, was high quality and in color. An earlier variant, with a grey background and (possibly?) more vibrant colors appeared on a television that somebody was watching on a film made by El Kadsreian Films, that was filmed between early 1963 - early 1964, and a (slightly) modified version of the audio. There is also an even earlier version that aired for a few days, a more disturbing and animated one a la NBC 1970, and people are now trying to find that. So now, almost everything related to this lost media is complete. Just almost.