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	sfweekly.com - News - Collect Calling
		Rick Prelinger can't fight the impulse to hoard in the name of history.
		From that moment in 1982, Prelinger became obsessed with collecting the industrial and educational movies that he later dubbed "ephemeral films." To Prelinger, these movies -- rotting in basements or discarded as junk -- represented precious documentation of the past; they were his way of examining the landscape of an America that no longer existed.
		Rick Prelinger is a self-taught historical visionary; at age 49, he remains two units shy of a bachelor's degree in a self-created major called "culture and ideology." A graying blond with a slight potbelly, Prelinger still listens to punk rock and considers himself a devotee of the counterculture, despite an obvious bent toward pedantry.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2002-10-30/news/feature.html (1012 words)

	if:book: prelinger Archives
		Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw visited for lunch earlier in the week and gave us a preview of the very interesting presentation they made later that day about the SF-based Prelinger Library.
		Rick's contention, as the first serious media archaeologist, was that these films that no one intended to be saved or seen again — ephemeral films — often provided much more insight about howsociety has evolved in the twentieth century than the big budget hollywood films which tend to be more self-conscious and indirect.
		When Rick and Megan showed the cover of School Executives, a journal from the 40s, which featured an article on the value of teachers toting guns to enforce classroom discipline, i realized that Google's digitization efforts focus entirely on codex books (maybe to be extended to periodicals that libraries have bothered to store).
	www.futureofthebook.org /blog/archives/tags/prelinger (1142 words)

	sfweekly.com - News - Collect Calling
		Prelinger enters the dark mouth of a Marin storage space on a blazing fall morning and switches on the light; a narrow hallway stretches out before him, its cool and dim conditions ideal for the storage of archival material.
		Today, Prelinger has to wade through the disorganized clutter of his would-be library to extract 15 videotapes from storage space 20441; the tapes are to be licensed to various clients for a punk rock video and a TV documentary.
		Rick Prelinger's view of the world is often in conflict with the way the world operates.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2002-10-30/news/feature_full.html (4675 words)

	SF360:Features - A word from our sponsored films
		Rick Prelinger: For quite a while I've been very interested in trying to get this material in the mainstream a little bit, trying to get them out of the realm of camp and kitsch.
		Prelinger: One of the big things about these films is that they really take place outside film history.
		Prelinger: One of the things about these films that's really hard to pick up on now is the issue of reception.
	www.sf360.org /features/2006/11/a_word_from_our.html (1283 words)

	New York Press
		In the case of Rick Prelinger's new film, Panorama Ephemera (which premiered at the Anthology Film Archives last month), the archival footage is the context and provides the entire framework.
		Prelinger was pretty much the only man for the job in a project like this.
		Prelinger, who now lives in San Francisco, told me that he'd been toying with the idea of using the Archive to construct a feature for a few years now.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=11276 (1284 words)

	Rick Prelinger: Media Archaeologist
		And this is precisely why Rick Prelinger, who once described himself as “a mad historian without a diploma,” has been collecting these educational, industrial, promotional and home movies for well over a decade.
		The format gave Prelinger the option of including a staggering amount of material, yet it gives the viewer a lot of control over how that material is consumed.
		Prelinger long ago started accepting far more material than he can possibly watch, but even this has never really sparked him to stop and question his obsession with material that even its creators considered imminently disposable.
	www.robwalker.net /html_docs/prelinger.html (1268 words)

	Digital Citizen » Blog Archive » Rick Prelinger - Are the Archives Doomed? (Enhanced AAC)
		Rick Prelinger is the founder of the Prelinger Archives, the Board President of the Internet Archive and is the acting directory of the Open Content Alliance.
		Rick spoke to the University of Pittsburgh on January 26, 2006 regarding, as the title states, the future of archives.
		The lecture portion of this podcast was recorded by CIDDE at the University of Pittsburgh and is copyright 2006 Rick Prelinger.
	www.digital-citizen.org /2006/02/10/rick-prelinger-are-the-archives-doomed-enhanced-aac-2 (718 words)

	FREE BITFLOWS
		Prelinger is a CD ROM developer, media archaeologist, and film scholar.
		Prelinger is famous for his collection of advertisements and instructional films from the 1930s, '40s and '50s, which he has single-handedly preserved.
		Prelinger is also a strong advocate for the concept of fair use, and has testified before congressional committees on the subject.
	freebitflows.t0.or.at /f/participants/rickprelinger (131 words)

	"You're in..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cultural historians and artists interested in US popular culture will find Ephemeral Films by Rick Prelinger an essential source of some of the most revealing and fascinating examples of what was intended for the junkpile of history.
		Prelinger's commentary points out how such films placed the burden for accidents on individuals and simultaneously erased any possible culpability on the part of industry for the accidents associated with technological changes.
		Prelinger provides his audience with an opportunity to concentrate on works of cinema of which they might otherwise have been unaware, or to which--without Prelinger's dedication to the preservation of these films--they would never have gained access.
	www.intelligentagent.com /archive/april_youri.html (450 words)

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		Prelinger, who produced the series, provides QuickTime introductions and supplemental text on the background of the films and their producers.
		Prelinger calls these films "national home movies" because, while each was made to serve a specific purpose -- to educate, promote, sell, or edify certain American ideals -- they say a lot about how Americans used to view themselves.
		With the sly confidence of Columbo finding a murder weapon, Prelinger states that the reason General Motors did such a hard sell on the futuristic fins of its 1959-model cars was that beneath those newly designed bodies was the same old chassis from '58.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol16/issue15/screens.secret.html (1664 words)

	A rejected genre: Those kitschy and cautionary starchy industrial and educational films provide an illuminating peek at ...
		Prelinger has become a connoisseur of this deceptively mundane genre, and speaks of its creators with the kind of authority and respect that many film scholars reserve for the likes of Bergman, Fellini and Welles.
		Prelinger has retained the rights to sell footage and is dedicated to posting many of the titles for free download at www.archive.org.
		Prelinger hopes they will be added to the Library of Congress collection, but for the time being he is content to dust off the cans and start screening them himself.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/08/31/MO300321.DTL&type=movies (1841 words)

	Salon: The Ways We Were
		People like Rick Prelinger, the archivist behind "Our Secret Century" -- a massive project on 12 CD-ROMs that assembles a fascinating saga of social history from American industrial and educational films of the '30s, '40s and '50s.
		Prelinger introduces each volume with talking-head commentary, but it's his written notes that really shape the experience of watching each film.
		Throughout the series Prelinger takes pains to remind us that these films are not documentaries -- that they more often present fantasies of how their makers or sponsors wanted the world to be than records of how it actually was.
	www.salon.com /weekly/voyager960909.html (645 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- Incredible Movies -- Free!
		Prelinger started collecting ephemeral films--industrial, educational, and advertising--back in the 1970s, when his friend Pierce Rafferty, one of the directors of "Atomic Cafe" invited him to work as director of research on a new film, "Heavy Petting," which was to be the "Atomic Cafe" of sexuality and romance.
		Prelinger: My mind is always in a state of flux but one of the things that these films made very clear to me is that throughout the 20th century, there had been a consistent effort to use the media--all modes of media--to construct and to sustain a sense of consensus among the American people.
		Prelinger: The thing is, it was difficult for me to be open to everything that was happening in the news around the Second Gulf War.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/policy/2003/05/23/rickp.html (3821 words)

	Rick Prelinger's Ephemeral Films (Richard Gehr)
		Prelinger Archives, located in the meat-packing district, is a climate-controlled cavern filled with pallets and rows of floor-to-ceiling shelving groaning under countless film canisters.
		Prelinger estimates that some 600,000 ephemeral films were produced between the 1920 and 1990, with more than 100,000 ephemeral videos currently unspooling annually.
		Although Prelinger anticipates "piercing the veil of mystification that so many of us still labor under today" with his sex ed films, it is America's corporate legacy that obviously most piques his interest.
	www.levity.com /rubric/prelinger.html (1154 words)

	Rick Prelinger - Prelinger Archives interview
		Prelinger: Yes, it was first published in 1958, and George Romero, the producer-director, accidentally left off a copyright notice, which threw it into the public domain.
		Prelinger: Yes, we are losing materials to deterioration, plus a lot of copyrights are abandoned, usually because they¹re out of date and the owner doesn¹t need them anymore.
		Prelinger: The main problem is we¹re rapidly moving to a model where all content is a billable event, and that undercuts the public function of libraries.
	www.stayfreemagazine.org /archives/20/prelinger.html (1955 words)

	Rick Prelinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 51,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation.
		Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectured widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access.
		He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library (with spouse Megan Shaw Prelinger), an appropriation-friendly reference library located in San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rick_Prelinger (319 words)

	October 2002 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		The Prelinger Collection brings together a wide variety of American ephemeral motion pictures—advertising, educational, industrial, amateur and documentary films depicting everyday life, culture and industry in America throughout the 20th century.
		I'm thrilled that this cultural and social resource is becoming part of the world's greatest treasury of recorded human knowledge," said Rick Prelinger, president of Prelinger Archives.
		Many of the films in the Prelinger Collection, however, were never submitted for copyright or were produced during the decades when film prints were not acquired by the Library as part of the copyright registration process.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0210/prelinger.html (497 words)

	The Virginia Film Festival :: Press
		RICK PRELINGER The Virginia Film Society has joined with the Robertson Media Center to bring Rick Prelinger, archeologist of archival media, to Charlottesville.
		Now that the Archives have moved to the Library of Congress, Rick is working with the Internet Archive to develop online moving image libraries and an all-archival feature film for release in early 2004.
		Rick Prelinger will also give a free talk on February 25 at noon in Clemons Library Room 407 on online access to archival films.
	www.vafilm.com /php-bin/news/2003/showArticle.php?id=247 (371 words)

	Rick Prelinger - Creative Commons
		New York-based typesetter Rick Prelinger was trying to “make it in the movies” and writing a reference book on two-way radio frequencies on an IBM Selectric typewriter.
		The Library of Congress recently acquired the Prelinger Archives, which will be made publicly accessible after a 3- to 4-year processing period.
		Of course, you know what it is: It’s the image of everybody sitting in a movie theater with their 3-D glasses on.” You know this famous image.
	creativecommons.org /video/rick (1367 words)

	THE INTERNET MOVING IMAGES ARCHIVE
		Rick Prelinger is known to many IAMHIST members.
		All are available for free downloading and reuse, with no restrictions other than that the films cannot be resold or licensed by anyone in their entirety or as stock footage.
		The Internet Moving Images Archive is a project of the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) in collaboration with Prelinger Archives.
	www.iamhist.org /news/moving-images-archives.html (259 words)

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		As I write in late February 2002, the United States has declared itself to be in a state of war.
		He is currently working on a book about the history and culture of radio monitoring and a film on menace and jeopardy in American culture.
		http://www.detritus.net The Negativland site has an excellent IP resources section: http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html" Hydrarchist writes: "Rick Prelinger is a tireless agitator against copyright laws, and is responsible for the placing on line of a huge volume of public domain films that others can appropriate for their own ends.
	www.hydrapoetics.com /anti-IP.txt (4439 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Techsploits
		IT WAS sometime between the meat-packing sequences and the atomic-bomb testing footage in Rick Prelinger's new movie, Panorama Ephemera, that I realized that blogs have taken over television.
		Before reality TV assumed its current incarnation, there were what Prelinger calls ephemeral films, industrial and educational reels whose stilted realism offers a glimpse of everyday life in the early and mid-20th century.
		In Panorama Ephemera (which you can download at www.prelinger.com), Prelinger offers us artfully juxtaposed clips from his world-famous public-domain archive of ephemeral films: here, we can experience the prehistory of reality TV in its most poignantly unselfconscious form.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.22.04/work-0439.html (831 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Copyright Issues Block Broadcast of Award-Winning Civil Rights Documentary "Eyes on the Prize"
		Rick Prelinger, professional archivist who has been working to increase public access to copyrighted materials.
		AMY GOODMAN: Rick Prelinger, you're a professional archivist with archive.org.
		RICK PRELINGER: It's the same -- you know, in the -- in the physical world and in the online world with one major exception, that works that exist in digital form carry additional restrictions.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/02/08/1459207 (2328 words)

	CONELRAD ATOMIC HYGIENE: Cold War Short Subject Films: PRELINGER COLLECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Rick Prelinger's justly celebrated collection of "ephemeral films" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur short subjects) is available for viewing and downloading at the Internet Archive (some 1,969 titles and growing).
		The Prelinger Collection was recently acquired by the US Library of Congress in August 2002 and remains an invaluable resource for everyone interested in "All Things Atomic."
		See Prelinger's most recent list of Atomic & Civil Defense and Cold War films available for viewing and downloading.
	conelrad.com /cdprint.php?id=212_0_3_0 (200 words)

	Prelinger Archives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films, mostly shorts made for industrial or educational markets.
		The stated goal of the Prelinger Archives is to "collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere."
		By 2001 it had acquired over 48,000 completed films of varying lengths and over 30,000 cans of unedited film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prelinger_Archives (177 words)

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		Rick Prelinger is still constructing the American soul, one reel at a time.
		IN MOST INSTANCES, when archival footage is used in a documentary, a commercial, a feature film or tv show, it's used essentially as punctuation, a snippet of visual commentary within the context of the larger framework.
	www.nypress.com /17/41/film/JimKnipfel.cfm (1351 words)

	Prelinger Archives - The Fedora Lounge
		"Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City.
		In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
		Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction.
	www.thefedoralounge.com /showthread.php?t=648 (408 words)

	Orphans 5: Science, Industry, and Education
		Today these works are significant historical documents that reveal as much about the culture that produced the films as about the subjects themselves.
		Thanks to a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Film Preservation Foundation is beginning work with industrial film expert Rick Prelinger of the Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives on a new guide to these relatively unknown motion pictures.
		Starting with a core list, Rick Prelinger will invite subject experts to review the draft and add key titles in their areas of specialty.
	www.sc.edu /filmsymposium/mellon.html (386 words)

	Upcoming.org: Prelinger's Industrial & Institutional Films: A Field Guide at Artists' Television Access ...
		Rick Prelinger graces our gallery once again with selections from this new encyclopedia published by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
		Drawing from a life spent slaving in the archives, Rick’s commentary provides fascinating historical context for these magnificent educational-film artifacts.
		Projected in both video and 16mm, his program does justice to this relatively new branch of film archaeology, while also providing for a richly engaging cinema experience.
	upcoming.org /event/129071 (215 words)

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