The Prelinger Archives holds some 15,000 reels of home movies. Courtesy: Rick Prelinger Start watching the home movies in the Prelinger Archive and you lose all sense of time. You don’t know the ...

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Rick Prelinger is an archivist and professor at UC Santa Cruz. He's a collector of found and discarded footage: home movies, outtakes from industrial videos and never before seen b-roll from old ...

The Prelinger Archives is a vast and wonderful collection of “ephemeral” films: documentaries, educational films, advertisements, and industrial footage, all in the public domain. Rick Prelinger, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Rick Prelinger is a Founder for the Prelinger Archives with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2013 Vignette. Founder Rick Prelinger talked ...

The New York Times recently wrote an article on archivist Rick Prelinger’s new film Lost Landscapes of New York, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image at the NYU Skirball Center just a few days ...

Archivist, educator and filmmaker Rick Prelinger has a remarkable eye for the unexpected value of ephemera. A massive collection of educational and industrial films he collected under the auspices of ...

Internet archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger discuss their efforts to build both a physical and digital library of every book ever published. “The idea is we can build a Library of Alexandria ...

When Rick Prelinger first sat down to put together a program of home movie footage that covered road travel from the East to West coasts, the cut ran 14-1 / 2 hours long. Months of whittling down ...

As the nation prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a pair of leading internet archivists are launching an ambitious project called “Understanding 9/11: A Television News ...