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 ...

This is a conversation by email between Rick Prelinger, Anna Ramos, Vicki Bennett and Jon Leidecker, which took place on April 2011 in parallel to the Memorabilia. Collecting sounds with... lecture ...

Preserving a film is a meticulous, demanding endeavor. But it's nothing compared to the complex process for clearing the right to distribute some films once they're restored. By Matthew Belloni, The ...

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 ...

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, author and filmmaker Rick Prelinger will receive a lifetime achievement award at the FOCAL International Awards in London on May 2. Prelinger’s lifelong interest in archive began when he ...

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, ...

A camera pans the streets of downtown Los Angeles from the window of a moving car, cruising past Mickie’s Café, John’s Dog House, an Orange Julius, the Angel’s Flight Café and the Burbank Burlesque, ...