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 ...

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 ...

When was this moment captured on film? Internet Archive The Prelinger Archives is a trove of more than 60,000 “ephemeral films.” There are ads, industrial demonstrations, educational tapes—and about ...

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 ...

Rick Prelinger enjoyed ephemeral fame when the Library of Congress acquired his Prelinger Archive of old educational films in 2002. He has also collected a trove of old military aviation maps, U.S.

Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of ...