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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She’s good at spending money, just not very good at counting it. From the psychedelic opening to mod coloring, this short film from the Prelinger Archives screams late-1960s. But what is perhaps most ...