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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It’s somewhat hard to imagine that in the same week that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 is dominating box office sales a presentation of scratchy found film footage of old freeways, street cars, ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- What happens when your book collection outgrows your home? One San Francisco couple decided to open a library and share it with the public for free. "This is an extremely large ...

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 ...