History Main / BuryYourArt

** The original theatrical cuts of ''Film/ANewHope'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' are the most notorious cases of this. While all three films are easily available, most modern versions since 1997 are of the "[[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion special editions]]" of the films. The theatrical cuts have not seen an official release at all since 2006 (and even so, it was only a dump of the [=LaserDisc=] versions) and are not acknowledged by Lucasfilm. This was deliberate, as Creator/GeorgeLucas [[CreatorBacklash hated the original versions]] due to how "unfinished" they are in his eyes and wants the special editions to effectively replace and bury the original unaltered versions for good, to the point of [[https://filmschoolrejects.com/return-of-the-jedi-national-film-registry/ submitting the special editions to the]] UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry instead of the original versions (despite requests from the Registry to do so) and having it in his [[https://savestarwars.com/lucas-nfr.html contract with Fox that any surviving copies of the original films be "hunted down and destroyed"]]. This remains the case even after Disney bought Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} in 2012 and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2019.

** [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]]'s performance of "Music/{{Innuendo}}" was one of several segments from the Music/FreddieMercury Tribute Concert that were omitted from the VHS and UsefulNotes/LaserDisc releases due to time constraints. When the band sought to restore these songs for the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} release, Plant himself asked them to leave "Innuendo" out thanks to his dissatisfaction with his performance.

* Despite being a fan-favorite and an influence on numerous AlternativeRock musicians, Music/NeilYoung was heavily dissatisfied by the 1973 LiveAlbum ''Time Fades Away'', calling it his worst album in a 1987 interview, and withdrew it from circulation after its initial run (with international copies eventually going out of print in 1982). Young would later clarify that most of his hatred stemmed from his bad memories of the tour it was taken from, but nonetheless, his dislike of the album was so strong that the GreatestHitsAlbum ''Decade'' (which includes no material from ''Time Fades Away'') was originally planned to feature a blurb in the liner notes elaborating on how much he hated it, and [[RarelyPerformedSong songs from it were rarely, if ever, played live]]. It wouldn't be officially reissued until 2014, and wouldn't make its debut on UsefulNotes/CompactDisc until three years later.

* The estate of Creator/GeorgeOrwell has pointedly refused to re-release the 1956 film adaptation of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' since its theatrical run ended. Orwell's Widow, Sonia, had previously sold the adaptation rights to both ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' and ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' to the CIA, who funded the 1950s film adaptations of both works and edited the stories to fit the American government's interests. While [[WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954 the film version]] of ''Animal Farm'' didn't faze her, Sonia so heavily disliked the alterations made to ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that she threw the book into NoAdaptationsAllowed status until her death in 1980 and forbade further releases of the 1956 film, with the estate continuing to uphold the latter.

** In North America, the racially controversial ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' has suffered from this fate. Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo has never officially released the full movie, although some VHS tapes, [=DVDs=] and Blu-ray Discs include clips. The ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'' video ''Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah''[[note]]released on VHS to promote ''Song of the South'''s 1986 theatrical re-release[[/note]] has also never come to DVD; even though it kicked off the ''Sing-Along'' series, Disney hasn't sold it in any form since 2001 (though another volume with a song from the film did see a DVD release in 2006). Disney CEO Bob Iger even vowed to investors that this film will ''never'' see a Creator/DisneyPlus release either, as long as he remains in charge. However, ''Song of the South'' still occasionally airs on TV in the UK, just not on any channels owned by Disney.

* Disney is infamously known to do this to their less successful movies starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', with ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' rarely ever discussed (while these two movies were far more successful than we thought, you can blame their obcsurity on ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', whose success blew these two movies [[{{Pun}} out of the water]]), along with retroactively, ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' (at least outside of Japan), ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' as well (in other words, basically most of their "Dark Age" movies aside from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''). When considering Disney Renaissance movies, this applies to ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'' (basically every movie in the renaissance that is neither a Disney Princess movie [[note]] consisting of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyandtheBeast'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'' (Jasmine), ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'', Esmeralda, along with Tinkerbell were originally both official members at the time the franchise was first launched, but were quickly removed for this very reason [[/note]] nor ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', although ''Tarzan'''s case is simply due to copyright reasons, and thus cannot allow references to this movie without getting into legal trouble). And for the early 2000s, every movie that isn't ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'',[[note]]''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'', ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Bolt}}''[[/note]] and basically all of the wartime package movies.[[note]]''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' (which for that matter, remains the ''only'' Disney Animated Canon movie to not be available on Creator/DisneyPlus), ''WesternAnimation/FunandFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad''[[/note]] ''WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld'' is notably the latest victim in the canon to suffer this fate because of this trope.This may also explain why their Villains franchise has more characters included than their Princess franchise, which only has 13, as of ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'' ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa and Anna]] are not counted as official Princesses). Special mention goes to ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', whose title character is a summon in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Both came out in 2005, the only year in which a Disney product would acknowledge ''Chicken Little'' in such a significant capacity, given its generally awful reception. However, this trope is mostly averted with Creator/{{Pixar}}... ''[[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife Mostly]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur that is]].

** Due to its negative critical reception and perceived poor audience reception[[note]]sources vary as to whether audience responses were genuinely poor or simply misinterpreted by Khara[[/note]], Creator/StudioKhara had Creator/{{Funimation}} re-dub the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' film, ''You Can (Not) Redo'' for its home media release in 2016; the theatrical dub has never been officially re-released. Khara would also re-dub it and the previous two films again, this time with Dubbing Brothers USA, when they were picked up by Creator/PrimeVideo in 2021.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' was excluded from ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'', a CompilationRerelease of 3D ''Mario'' games for the Switch, as well as the ending montage of the Nintendo Direct meant to celebrate the series' 35th anniversary, all despite it being one of the series' most beloved entries, leading to jokes about how Nintendo is bent on denying the game's existence and systematically removing all mentions of it.

* {{Creator/Illumination}} is famous for the movie franchises ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeofPets'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Sing}}'', as well as making animated films off of [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 Dr. Seuss]] [[WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018 books]] as well as [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie video games]], but there is one movie they usually don't talk about anymore these days, and that movie in question is ''{{Film/Hop}}''.

This can be done in multiple ways. They can refuse to re-release it on any physical or digital format. They can remove all traces that they worked on it on their websites and social media pages. If it's on a video platform, they can make the videos private or even delete them so no one would have a chance to see them and some would even delete them on their hard disks and other backups to ensure they'll never see the light of the day.

This can be done in multiple ways. They can refuse to re-release it on any physical or digital format. They can remove all traces that they worked on it on their websites and social media pages. If it's on a video platform, they can make the videos private so no one would have a chance to see them.

* Disney is infamously known to do this to their less successful movies starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', with ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' rarely ever discussed (while these two movies were far more successful than we thought, you can blame their obcsurity on ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', whose success blew these two movies [[{{Pun}} out of the water]]), along with retroactively, ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' (at least outside of Japan), ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' as well (in other words, basically most of their "Dark Age" movies aside from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''). When considering Disney Renaissance movies, this applies to ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'' (basically every movie in the renaissance that is neither a Disney Princess movie [[note]] consisting of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyandtheBeast'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'' (Jasmine), ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'', Esmeralda, along with Tinkerbell were originally both official members at the time the franchise was first launched, but were quickly removed for this very reason [[/note]] nor ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', although ''Tarzan'''s case is simply due to copyright reasons, and thus cannot allow references to this movie without getting into legal trouble). And for the early 2000s, every movie that isn't ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'',[[note]]''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'', ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Bolt}}''[[/note]] and basically all of the wartime package movies.[[note]]''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' (which for that matter, remains the ''only'' Disney Animated Canon movie to not be available on Creator/DisneyPlus), ''WesternAnimation/FunandFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad''[[/note]] This may also explain why their Villains franchise has more characters included than their Princess franchise, which only has 13, as of ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'' ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa and Anna]] are not counted as official Princesses). Special mention goes to ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', whose title character is a summon in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Both came out in 2005, the only year in which a Disney product would acknowledge ''Chicken Little'' in such a significant capacity, given its generally awful reception. However, this trope is mostly averted with Creator/{{Pixar}}... ''[[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife Mostly]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur that is]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'', a short-lived Creator/{{Fox}} animated series lambasted by critics and audiences for its abhorrent and oftentimes straight-up disgusting sense of humor and unlikable and/or wildly offensive characters, was so reviled by Fox itself that they quickly scrubbed any trace of it from any of their website and pulled it from any websites offering episodes as digital downloads.
* Since the late sixties, Creator/WarnerBros has made sure to bury the existence of the ''WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven'' (a series of eleven ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons that became notorious for their [[ValuesDissonance offensive and racist content]]) as much as possible, with the cartoons not having aired on television since 1968 and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes never receiving any official home video release]]. As of now, WB have only rereleased the cartoons once, which was during the first annual TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were plans to release them on DVD roughly around that same time]], but WB ultimately decided to scrap those plans, preferring to keep them buried for the time being.

* Disney is infamously known to do this to their less successful movies starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', with ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' rarely ever discussed (while these two movies were far more successful than we thought, you can blame their obcsurity on ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', whose success blew these two movies [[{{Pun}} out of the water]]), along with retroactively, ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' (at least outside of Japan), ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' as well (in other words, basically most of their "Dark Age" movies aside from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''). When considering Disney Renaissance movies, this applies to ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Tarzan}}'' (basically every movie in the renaissance that is neither a Disney Princess movie [[note]] consisting of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyandtheBeast'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'' (Jasmine), ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'', Esmeralda, along with Tinkerbell were originally both official members at the time the franchise was first launched, but were quickly removed for this very reason [[/note]] nor ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', although ''Tarzan'''s case is simply due to copyright reasons, and thus cannot allow references to this movie without getting into legal trouble). And for the early 2000s, every movie that isn't ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'',[[note]]''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'', ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', ''WesternAnimation/MeettheRobinsons'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Bolt}}''[[/note]] and basically all of the wartime package movies.[[note]]''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' (which for that matter, remains the ''only'' Disney Animated Canon movie to not be available on Creator/DisneyPlus), ''WesternAnimation/FunandFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofIchabodandMrToad''[[/note]] This may also explain why their Villains franchise has more characters included than their Princess franchise, which only has 13, as of ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/RayaandtheLastDragon'' ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa and Anna]] are not counted as official Princesses). Special mention goes to ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', whose title character is a summon in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Both came out in 2005, the only year in which a Disney product would acknowledge ''Chicken Little'' in such a significant capacity, given its generally awful reception. However, this trope is mostly averted with Creator/{{Pixar}}... ''[[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife Mostly]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur that is]].

* The second season of the 1990 anime adaptation of ''Literature/TheMoomins'', ''Delightful Moomin Family: Adventure Diary'', was maligned by the show's own producers, with Dennis Livson stating that [[PostScriptSeason they ran out of material to adapt]] and that the season should never have been made. Consequently, the second season was never dubbed into English [[note]] it did receive few dubs in other languages, such as Arabic, Italian and Spanish [[/note]] and remains in NoExportForYou status, with the official [=YouTube=] channel for the anime stopping firmly at episode 78.

** When Creator/{{Netflix}} picked up the series in 2018, Creator/StudioKhara (founded by series creator and director Creator/HideakiAnno) pulled the original English dub by Creator/ADVFilms from circulation and instead retranslated and redubbed the show with a new cast. Consequently, the original English dub by Creator/ADVFilms was indefinitely pulled from circulation. In 2021, Creator/AmandaWinnLee, who voiced Rei Ayanami in the ADV dub, revealed that the redub was the result of Khara seeking greater creative control over the series' English releases, with the Netflix dub's script being identical to the one that Creator/StudioGainax attempted to use before Matt Greenfield forced them to go ahead with a less literal translation.
*** Later subverted with the 2021 Blu-Ray release of the series, whose Collector's and Ultimate Editions include the original dub alongside the new one.

* The original broadcast of the fourth episode of ''Literature/LostUniverse'' saw a significant drop in animation quality due to the episode being hastily outsourced to a South Korean studio following a fire at E&G Films destroying its master negatives. Reception of this episode was so overwhelmingly negative that, following an official apology from TV Tokyo, the episode was remade from scratch for home video releases. Part of the episode's name, "Yashigani" ("Coconut Crab") has also become FanSpeak in Japan for cheap and ugly-looking animation. Outside of a handful of screencaps, the original broadcast version of episode 4 has since been lost to time.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiRemasters'' were taken down by the games' creator, Dopply, a few days after their release in order to avoid the possibility of legal action from Creator/{{Nintendo}}.