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Rick Prelinger

@footage

moving image archivist; interested in meta-archival issues & other peoples' home movies. co-founder, outsider library. Maker of live archival film events.

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Here's what my father had to say about hippies in 1968:

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I'm speaking at UCLA Library on Friday, 5/31, on Archives&Access&Alternatives. Open to the public! #archives

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Ecstatically decayed #nitrate film #archives

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Twitterverse: Can anyone ID this late 50s-early 60s celeb, filmed in Vegas? Tip of my tongue, but just can't recall.

A researcher just found this great "danger lurks" fire-everywhere image in our library.

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I believe this beautiful 1938 grab (from 16mm) is Dufaycolor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufaycolor)

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Hello Earth People!

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Raccoons in the Richmond, on the way home from Lost Landscapes! Food was probably left for outdoor cats, but...

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The resemblance of the human body to the industrial body is striking. Factory, Sept. 1914, at Prelinger Library

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Human Dynamo in Texas -- a 7-year-old electric boy. (, 1908-09-10) #cyborg #electricity

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"Why Archive?" postcard, just out from http://activist-archivists.org. Print and pass on! #archives #ows #oo

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Troy, New York, a few weeks ago.

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Automobiles! ALL THE RAGE. Delightful, healthful, exhilarating. (June, 1902)

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Here's today's #archival populist quote, from Robert C. Binkley, 1937:

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Safe driving brings no regrets! (1934)

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Here's what the Oakland Tribune website looks like on my phone, when I ask to "view full website"

Can the hive mind identify these men? Don't think guy on right is Joe Louis, but he is a #boxer. Thanks! #homemovies

"Don't people read any more?" "Yes...but it's often regarded as a chore." from Industrial Marketing, Jan 1958

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