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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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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Did you miss Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 20 this winter? One more chance! This Friday evening at the Roxie in SF. Join me to talk back to the screen. sfdocfest2026.eventive.org/schedule/69a...
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25th San Francisco Documentary Festival
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For 25 years we've given away archival film footage at archive.org/details/prel.... Our images are in uncountable films and videos and play worldwide. And AI video models crawl them. If we kept some of our footage offline, would it be fresher, less likely to be cloned? Just asking.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Join me in 25 minutes for the livestream of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 20! Chat will be open and spirited, www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Or...
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Rick Prelinger | Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20!
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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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
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Beautiful profile on Prelinger Library and its founders by @eddiekimx.bsky.social in GazetteerSF: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...
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Face Time: Rick and Megan Prelinger
The archivists and researchers look backward — and forward — in a city where exchange and flow are bedrock
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/06/2025
placing.technology/hunting-for-... love to do a dissertation blog post of mostly tangents, aka I went to the Prelinger Library yesterday
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"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
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Lovely video by @empowa about Prelinger Library! www.tiktok.com/@empowa/vide...
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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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Allen @allenriley.com · 30/05/2025
That's fun, David Lynch owned a copy of Another Science Fiction by Megan Prelinger
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
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2025 San Francisco Documentary Festival
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Andrew Kuklewicz @andrew.kuklewicz.com · 28/05/2025
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...
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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...
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/04/2025
“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
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/03/2025
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.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/03/2025
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
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/03/2025
📽️ 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.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/03/2025
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.
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Jeff Kolar @jeffkolar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Felt like a 5.5 or 6 in San Francisco's Richmond district. Lateral (north-south) short sharp shock.
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Filecoin Foundation @fil.org · 08/01/2025
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 ↓
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
well, according to @technologyreview.com, Prelinger Archives is a source of video for training large image models. Not a surprise!
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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...
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Lost Landscapes 02024: YouTube Premiere
Hidden gems of vintage footage reveal our cool San Francisco vibe - come see & get inspired!
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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...
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Lost Landscapes 02024: YouTube Premiere
Hidden gems of vintage footage reveal our cool San Francisco vibe - come see & get inspired!
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tablehopper @tablehopper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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
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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.
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 03/12/2024
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"
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 02/12/2024
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...
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Lost Landscapes 02024 Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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...
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History Is Made at Night
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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
💥New #CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on <AI & Archives> 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
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ok, back here where the good folx are. Will take some time to learn the ropes and the network...
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
I'm doing a screening at the Savoy Tivoli in North Beach on Wed 7/19 -- an archival film tribute to North Beach, its people, history, culture and cityscape. Please join me! Free. thoseguyssf.com
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Those Guys
Hey, we're Those Guys and we're doing things.
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katy @gewittrderrosen.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
i wrote about how brecht learned marx with his friends! hypocritereader.com/101/commodity-t…
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Commodity Theater | Katy Burnett | The Hypocrite Reader
A biannual leftist magazine of useful, unexpected writing.
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 03/06/2023
There's a petition to protect the integrity of the Mutter Museum, which is facing problems from the people who are apparently embarrassed to be responsible for it...
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Sign the Petition
To be submitted to the Board of Trustees of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: We, the undersigned; the friends, fans, and followers of the Mütter Museum, are deeply worried by the recent decisions made by senior leadership of the Museum and College. These actions are reactive and fear-based as well as predicated on a lack of understanding and outright disdain of the Museum. The Museum and
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 02/06/2023
Someone wrote about The Melville Log -- one of the most important (and dialectical) attempts at writing a non-coercive biography I've ever seen. Biographers take notice! neglectedbooks.com/?p=8244#:~:text=….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
Awful decision today on fair use, but Kagan's dissent is a great read. Starts around p. 52: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 09/05/2023
Anthropology students at UC Berkeley are occupying the Anthropology Library, a center for study and community that the university admin wants to close. See the recent NYT article for more.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 02/05/2023
Hello world. I'm here to tame AI, make life-changing friends, scan your home movies and find a substitute for Moore's Law.
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