Jun 21, 2007, I started pioneering at YouTube, creating Channel012.
The first YouTube video ‘Fire Breather’ was shot at a 4:3 aspect ratio (640×480 pixels) and produced at a 16:9 aspect ratio with black bars for my first YouTube upload on Dec 30, 2007.

Unlisted ‘Fire Breather • 2nd Edition’

Next a 2nd edition of ‘Fire Breather’ was produced at the original 4:3 aspect ratio, and uploaded the next month, Jan 18, 2008.
YouTube displayed that 2nd edition at a higher quality. Sometime later though I decided to change visibility of that 2nd edition to ‘unlisted’ in order to preserve and favor the 1st edition views count.

Lost Forgotten Film

More recently that forgotten unlisted 2nd edition video appeared to be lost somehow…until I learned today that YouTube had changed visibility in 2021 of all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to ‘private’ automatically for security reasons with a worldwide system change.

Today I changed visibility at YouTube of that 2nd edition (video shown above) to public.

Notes

Still ‘Fire Breather • 2nd Edition’ • @1MEMO 20250509 • TakeNode bc90fb98-6a51-4c98-9ad6-1502d11fb7d2

Channel012 :

• The name of this channel was changed later to Michel van der Burg , and the handle to @michelvanderburg , with link : youtube.com/@michelvanderburg

• The original name ‘Channel012’ is operational too in the link youtube.com/channel012

YouTube – Channel012 – First upload , Dec 30, 2007 : Fire Breather • @1MEMO 20071230 • youtube.com/channel012 • URL https://youtu.be/cJDIJg0qhl8

Fire Breather | 2nd Edition • @1MEMO 20080118 • TakeNode 541d345c-ff23-495f-b0c2-8564ce90af17

YouTube team. Update to YouTube Unlisted Links. Jun 23, 2021. URL https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-youtube-unlisted-links/

Inspiration :

Rosas-Salazar Vladimir (2025), “Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes.” [in]Transition 12(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.16950

Tags :

#lost #film #edition #unlisted #YouTube #memory #fragment #digital #intransition #fire #firebreather #performance #Holland #art #pioneer #channel012

Citation info : Lost in Transition • Michel van der Burg • Miracles.Media • @1MEMO 20250509 • URL 1-memo.com/2025/05/09 •