Four survivals with very different margins. The first film anyone made of Frankenstein, released with an apology and now free to watch; a country superstar and Jim Henson’s frog singing Sly and the Family Stone on a variety show that lasted one season; ninety-seven sealed cartridges intercepted on their way to a gold-recovery furnace; and every black robin alive, descended from one female called Old Blue.
The first Frankenstein film, with an apology attached
→ openculture.com
1987, the fifth episode of Dolly, one frog
→ youtube.com
Saved from a gold-recovery furnace, graded thirty years later
→ kottke.org
Every black robin alive is descended from one bird
→ themarginalian.org