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 produces a film series called “Lost Landscapes," montages that present city life across 100 years. These portraits tell hidden histories of American cities through the most personal of ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently saw some of my family’s home movies from the 1940s and 1950s for the first time. The scenes were captured on color film, but I fired up my laptop to watch the men felling Douglas fir trees ...

Inside a fluorescent-lit corridor, tucked away on the top floor of a cavernous Richmond warehouse, the smell hits like a freight train. The strip came all the way from Detroit. It’s brittle and ...