Welcome to Rick Prelinger and Prelinger Archives' almost-all-text website.
Upcoming Events Prelinger Archives: Active Film Collection Title List (rev. August 6, 2010)Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals and print ephemera, open to the public in downtown San Francisco
In search of archival or stock footage? Please look at our Archives FAQ here first.
View or download Panorama Ephemera (2004), a feature-length collage film
News of Panorama Ephemera
2,141 titles from Prelinger Archives are online at the Internet Archive. We're preparing more and plan to do a mass upload in late 2011 or early 2012.
My "Points of Origin" piece, published in The Moving Image 9 (No. 2, 2009) here:
Prelinger Collection Acquired by Library of Congress
The Landscape Coin Project and my spouse Megan Shaw Prelinger's website
What's New (updated 14 July 2004; my blog is much more current)
Archives FAQ (updated October 2008)
Link to the Internet Moving Images Archive
One-page list listing approximately 1,969 Prelinger titles presently available from the Internet Moving Images Archive, suitable for searching or browsing.
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Watch the Prelinger Archives official orientation video:
View or download This Is Prelinger Archives (2001)
Producer: Prelinger (Rick)
Sponsor: Prelinger Archives
Official Prelinger Archives corporate video, describing its contents and mission. With excerpts of many films in the collection and rare scenes shot inside the New York vaults.
Descriptors: Motion pictures: Ephemeral; Motion pictures: Archives; Prelinger Archives
Run time: 10:45 Color/B&W;: B&W;/C Silent/Sound: Sd
Contact information:
Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
P.O. Box 590622
San Francisco, CA 94159-0622
USA
rick@archive.org
January 13, 2013