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    Rick Prelinger

    American archivist, writer and filmmaker

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  1. Rick Prelinger is an American archivist, writer, and filmmaker. [1] [2] [3] [4] A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, [5] Prelinger is best known as the founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years ...

  2. View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.

  3. May 4, 2021 · 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...

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  5. Dec 10, 2021 · Interview: Rick Prelinger on Lost Landscapes 02021 & The Human Side of Infrastructure. Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes films have become a Long Now December tradition. This year, his cinematic vision expands out from San Francisco to cover the infrastructure of California.

  6. Rick Prelinger's Homepage. Rick Prelinger's Wikipedia page. 2 special screenings of a new LOST LANDSCAPES film by Rick Prelinger will be on Monday 12/9/24 and Tuesday 12/10/24 at the Herbst Theater. Tickets will be released soon and Long Now Members can reserve a pair of tickets on either night! Each year LOST LANDSCAPES casts an archival gaze ...

  7. Aug 21, 2023 · Rick Prelinger: Smithsonian OTC Consultant. Prelinger grew up in the Washington, DC area, and as we talked during our “Sunday at the Smithsonian” sound check he recalled being dropped off by his parents on weekends to navigate the Smithsonian’s multidisciplinary exhibits.

  8. Rick Prelinger is an archivist, filmmaker, writer and educator. He began collecting "ephemeral films" (films made for specific purposes at specific times, such as advertising, educational and industrial films; more recently called " useful cinema ") in 1983.

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