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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 · 17/03/2026

Spirits are great - but they'll require a maintenance/repair ninja to keep in good condition. Electric Pictures in Orange County (CA) has the expertise and is still running them.

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Prelinger Archives went online at Internet Archive on 30 December 2000, just to keep the record accurate.

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I wish I knew. Not in our collection, sadly.

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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 · 13/12/2025

I love this project. It is why I collected postcards for many years and now collect home movies.

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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 · 08/11/2025

love these, but never looked for them. "broadcast"? "news coverage"? I mostly collect historical off-air scanner recordings, though until the streaming era they are few and far between.

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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 · 16/10/2025

the least seen films are the ones most worth watching

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I haven't seen it but would totally love to. I'll ask someone who might know

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I think this is the Coronet film PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES.

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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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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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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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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I was there two weeks ago. Mostly all junk (vinegary sound elements, etc.). More recently others are reporting the same. I don't think this is a crisis point. But thanks anyway!

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I was there a few weeks back and others who have been more recently are in touch. It's almost all vinegary junk, deteriorated sound elements. No crisis here. Thanks anyway though!

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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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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I don't think I can help. Assembly is time intensive and we are short handed

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

How much film is there, what format, and can you assemble it into larger reels?

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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.

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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 · 25/01/2025

And Halper's The Chute is a novel about the inhumanity of working conditions at a large mail-order house, inevitably bringing to mind conditions today at Amazon warehouses.

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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

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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 · 11/12/2024

There are a lot more images in this realm. I'll try and post some.

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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ok, wonderful speculations. In fact it's an image from an old slide film (filmstrip) about the process of making sponsored industrial films -- kind of a self-referential moment in a lost film that probably pokes fun at itself.

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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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Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I have a lead or two, and some thoughts to share

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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 · 10/09/2023

Deeply excited and looking forward.

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