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, ...
Back in 1999, a News & Observer profile of A/V Geeks mastermind Skip Elsheimer had a pretty prescient quote from Rick Prelinger -- a film collector who was Elsheimer’s mentor in the world of ...
"Lively QuickTime introductions and all sorts of supplementary materials explore the films' agendas - to educate, miseducate, convince, and condition - and what they reveal about how we live ...