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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
@footage.bsky.social
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Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
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footage.bsky.social
I am delighted to announce that tickets are now available for Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Year 20! Hope to see you there.

Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Tickets | Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! | City Box Office
Check This Out: Get tickets and show information for Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! - City Box Office
www.cityboxoffice.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
footage.bsky.social
Beautiful profile on Prelinger Library and its founders by @eddiekimx.bsky.social in GazetteerSF: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...
Face Time: Rick and Megan Prelinger
The archivists and researchers look backward — and forward — in a city where exchange and flow are bedrock
sf.gazetteer.co
September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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lifewinning.com
placing.technology/hunting-for-... love to do a dissertation blog post of mostly tangents, aka I went to the Prelinger Library yesterday
June 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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rolsi-journal.bsky.social
"The baby cried..." is part of every CA student's lore.

@jackbjoyce.bsky.social tracked it down for a ROLSI.net blog.

Now Jack has heard from Rick Prelinger @footage.bsky.social, one of the children whose stories were recorded. We're delighted that he is happy to share his memories of it.

#EMCA
A short account of the provenance of "The baby cried. The mommy picked it up", by Rick Prelinger, son of one of the editors of the book in which the children's stories appeared
June 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
footage.bsky.social
Lovely video by @empowa about Prelinger Library! www.tiktok.com/@empowa/vide...
for people who love oddities 💞 #prelingerarchives #popos #internetarchive #sanfrancisco #sanfran #hiddengems #iykyk #sf #bayarea #library #librariesoftiktok #sfmoma #prelingerlibrary #archives #thing...
TikTok video by empowa
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June 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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allenriley.bsky.social
That's fun, David Lynch owned a copy of Another Science Fiction by Megan Prelinger
May 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
footage.bsky.social
Maybe the last chance to see "Staff Picks from Prelinger Archives," a wonderful show of film, images, ideas and provocations from our archives staff. Sunday, June 1 at the Vogue in SF — tickets here: sfdocfest2025.eventive.org/films/67ffc8...
2025 San Francisco Documentary Festival
sfdocfest2025.eventive.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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andrew.kuklewicz.com
Loving the new episode! Reminds me of the @footage.bsky.social film "No More Road Trips?", which invites you to "Please make the soundtrack." - you just did! archive.org/details/NMRT...
No More Road Trips? : Rick Prelinger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? (Rick Prelinger, 2013, 79 min.), a dream ride through 20th-century America made entirely from home movies, asks whether we've come to the...
archive.org
May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
footage.bsky.social
The online #prelinger collection just reached 10,000 items. Over 1200 high-quality scans reflect our film scanning collaboration with #ffdweb.org, and many more are coming soon. Please watch, teach and make new work with these films. archive.org/details/prel...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
May 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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archive.org
“No film left unscanned.” 🎞️ Film historian Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social) explains why motion picture film is vanishing, and why digitization is crucial to saving our cinematic history.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/AdtZtvlFi9o

#DigitalPreservation #FilmHistory #MemoryHole #Film
April 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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archive.org
There’s still time to get tickets to tonight’s #booktalk with PETER B. KAUFMAN & RICK PRELINGER on THE MOVING IMAGE!

📅 TONIGHT
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1256028939...

#InternetArchive @authorsalliance.bsky.social #SFEvents #OnlineMedia @footage.bsky.social
Image for the booktalk The Moving Image: A User's Manual, with photos of Peter B. Kaufman and Rick Prelinger. Text on image reads: March 18th, 6:30pm - 9:00PM PT. IN-PERSON at INTERNET ARCHIVE Join us for a book talk with PETER B. KAUFMAN, discussing his book, THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL, which explores how video-television, film, and online media-has shaped global politics, law, education, and entertainment. RICK PRELINGER will host the discussion.
March 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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archive.org
Home movies capture the moments that define our lives—family celebrations, everyday joys. Yet, these films are vanishing due to time, neglect & decay.

Archivist Rick Prelinger @footage.bsky.social explores why no film should be left unscanned. blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/v...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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archive.org
📽️ Join Prelinger Archives staff for a screening of rarities & treasures that inspire, delight & bewilder. Film digitization & preservation funded by @ffdweb.org.
📅 Mar 25
🕖️ Doors @ 7, show @ 7:30
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1261633011...

@footage.bsky.social
Single frame from a film from the Prelinger Archives. Depicts a man working with electronic equipment.
March 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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archive.org
STAFF PICKS FROM THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES 📽️ Join us for a curated screening of rare archival footage, presented by the people behind the collection!
📅 Mar. 25
🕖️ Doors open @ 7, show @ 7:30
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1261633011...

@footage.bsky.social #funcheapsf #film
Single frame from a film from the Prelinger Archives. Depicts a woman taking notes while looking into the hooded scope of a piece of electronic equipment. Single frame from a film from the Prelinger Archives. Depicts a man holding a motion picture slate/clapperboard for the 1947 Universal Pictures film Pirates of Monterey. Single frame from a film from the Prelinger Archives. Depicts picketers on strike. Single frame from a film from the Prelinger Archives. Depicts a man working with electronic equipment.
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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jeffkolar.bsky.social
Saturday in San Francisco at The Lab.

The Lab present The Other Spectrum, including of a lecture by Rick Prelinger on “useful radio,” and a live transmission art performance by Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar.

Tickets: link.dice.fm/f66a90feb387...
link.dice.fm
February 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
footage.bsky.social
Felt like a 5.5 or 6 in San Francisco's Richmond district. Lateral (north-south) short sharp shock.
January 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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fil.org
Lights, camera, decentralization! 🎥✨

All of @footage.bsky.social 's 31 feature-length and short films will be preserved on the Filecoin network.

Some titles include ↓
January 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
footage.bsky.social
well, according to @technologyreview.com, Prelinger Archives is a source of video for training large image models. Not a surprise!
December 18, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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footage.bsky.social
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024 has its live YouTube premiere this coming Tuesday! Register for free (or support Prelinger Library with a contribution) and engage in spirited real-time repartee with other viewers. Hope to see you online! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-lands...
Lost Landscapes 02024: YouTube Premiere
Hidden gems of vintage footage reveal our cool San Francisco vibe - come see & get inspired!
www.eventbrite.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:49 AM
footage.bsky.social
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 2024 has its live YouTube premiere this coming Tuesday! Register for free (or support Prelinger Library with a contribution) and engage in spirited real-time repartee with other viewers. Hope to see you online! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-lands...
Lost Landscapes 02024: YouTube Premiere
Hidden gems of vintage footage reveal our cool San Francisco vibe - come see & get inspired!
www.eventbrite.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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tablehopper.bsky.social
Fantastic profile of The Prelinger Archive. Love attending their holiday event every year. @footage.bsky.social @meganw6xav.bsky.social
Never-before-seen footage of San Francisco is unearthed every day in a former furniture warehouse www.sfgate.com/local/articl... via @sfgatedotcom.bsky.social
Never-before-seen footage of SF is being unearthed in an old furniture warehouse
The Prelinger Archives in Richmond houses one of the largest home movie scanning projects in North America, bringing new snapshots of San Francisco to life.
www.sfgate.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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longnow.org
Want a preview of next week's Lost Landscapes shows? Read this piece from Rick Prelinger on how the films help with "combatting historical amnesia" and creating a "collective, dialogical experience"
footage.bsky.social Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · Dec 3
I wrote a piece about my recent Lost Landscapes event in San Francisco's Duboce Park. Thanks to my wonderful editor Claudia La Rocco. www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...
History Is Made at Night
Rick Prelinger
www.smallpresstraffic.org
December 3, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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longnow.org
Join us next week at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco for the 19th edition of @footage.bsky.social's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. Lost Landscapes explores everyday life in the Bay Area through archival footage.

Get tickets for the 12/9/24 and 12/10/24 screenings: longnow.org/ideas/lost-l...
Rick Prelinger
Lost Landscapes 02024 Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life
longnow.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
footage.bsky.social
I wrote a piece about my recent Lost Landscapes event in San Francisco's Duboce Park. Thanks to my wonderful editor Claudia La Rocco. www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...
History Is Made at Night
Rick Prelinger
www.smallpresstraffic.org
December 3, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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ktmac.bsky.social
💥New #CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from CambridgeUP, guest eds. Katie MacKinnon, Louis Ravn, Eun Seo Jo, Caroline Bassett and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social ! ℹ️ shorturl.at/hAI1l
This themed issue examines the connections—past, present, and future—between artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and archives. Our exploration is driven by three interrelated trends, which together indicate what we describe as an “archival turn” in Al research (Taurino & Smith, 2022) across the disciplinary spectrum from computational sciences to the social sciences and humanities. We invite contributions focusing on, but not restricted to, the following themes: « Politics of open-source data archives (non-profits, community, activist, etc.) « Data collection practices, networks, platforms, infrastructures and systems * Archival aesthetics of/in Al « Histories of Al and srchives « STS perspectives on archives and Al « Critical Data, Dataset and Al Studies of archival practices and infrastructures « Data formats, quality, scope, scale « Automated archival methodologies « Al archives and Digital Humanities « Artistic engagements with Al and archives
October 4, 2024 at 9:25 AM