Person:Rick Prelinger - Revision history

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	'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired over decades.		'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired over decades.

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	'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired ~~by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation~~.		'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired over decades.

	His collection of found and discarded footage - home movies, outtakes from industrial videos, b-rolls from feature films - ~~is..~~.		His collection of found and discarded footage - home movies, outtakes from industrial videos, b-rolls from feature films - has been inducted in the [[Library of Congress]].

	Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen LaserDiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films, the ''Our Secret Century'' series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."		Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen LaserDiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films, the ''Our Secret Century'' series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."

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	'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.		'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.

			His collection of found and discarded footage - home movies, outtakes from industrial videos, b-rolls from feature films - is...

	Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen LaserDiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films, the ''Our Secret Century'' series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."		Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen LaserDiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films, the ''Our Secret Century'' series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."

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	* http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger		* http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger
	* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0		* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0
			* https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/993265829/archivist-and-documentary-filmmaker-rick-prelinger

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	He wrote ''The Field Guide to Sponsored Films'' (2007) which "describes 452 historically or culturally significant motion pictures commissioned by businesses, charities, advocacy groups, and state or local government units between 1897 and 1980." It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the [[National Film Preservation Foundation]]. He worked at the Internet Archive on a texts-digitization project and helped organize the [[Open Content Alliance]].		He wrote ''The Field Guide to Sponsored Films'' (2007) which "describes 452 historically or culturally significant motion pictures commissioned by businesses, charities, advocacy groups, and state or local government units between 1897 and 1980." It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the [[National Film Preservation Foundation]]. He worked at the Internet Archive on a texts-digitization project and helped organize the [[Open Content Alliance]].

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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

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	'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.		'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.

	Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the [[Voyager Company]], a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen ~~[[LaserDisc]]s~~ and [[CD-~~ROM]]s~~ with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films,~~<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.levity.com/rubric/prelinger.html\|title=Rick Prelinger's Ephemeral Films (Richard Gehr)\|publisher=Levity.com\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>''~~ the ''Our Secret Century''<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=July 12, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201021147/http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|archive-date=February 1, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|df=mdy-all }}</ref> series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling).<ref>{{cite book\|title=Call it Home: the house that private enterprise built\|first1=Keller\|last1=Easterling\|first2=Richard\|last2=Prelinger\|date=February 15, 2013\|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\|isbn = 978-1481920087}}</ref> For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."~~<ref>Rick Prelinger, "Dr. Rick Prelinger on Sharing as Activism" video, UCSC Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0</ref>~~		Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen LaserDiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films, the ''Our Secret Century'' series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling). For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."

	==Life==		==Life==
	Prelinger worked at [[The Comedy Channel ~~(United States)\|The Comedy Channel]]~~ from its startup in 1989 until it merged with the comedy network ~~[[Ha! (TV channel)\|~~HA!]] to become [[Comedy Central]]. He then worked at [[Home Box Office]] until 1995. Prelinger has taught in the [[Master of Fine Arts~~\|MFA]]~~ design program at New York's [[School of Visual Arts]] and lectures widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sat (2001–2004) on the [[National Film Preservation Board]] as representative of the [[Association of Moving Image Archivists]], was Board President of the [[San Francisco Cinematheque]] (2002–2007), and is a board member of the [[Internet Archive]] and a professor in the Department of Film & Digital Media at [[University of California, Santa Cruz\|UC Santa Cruz]].		Prelinger worked at The Comedy Channel from its startup in 1989 until it merged with the comedy network HA! to become Comedy Central. He then worked at Home Box Office until 1995. Prelinger has taught in the Master of Fine Arts design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectures widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sat (2001–2004) on the [[National Film Preservation Board]] as representative of the [[Association of Moving Image Archivists]], was Board President of the San Francisco Cinematheque (2002–2007), and is a board member of the [[Internet Archive]] and a professor in the Department of Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz\|UC Santa Cruz.

	His feature-length film ''Panorama Ephemera'' opened in summer 2004. With spouse [[Megan Prelinger]] he is co-founder of the [[Prelinger Library]], a reference library located in [[San Francisco]], California. He has produced such archival compilation films ''Lost Landscapes of San Francisco'' (15 annual films, 2006–2020) and ''Lost Landscapes of Detroit'' (three films, 2010–2012 and a fourth and fifth, "Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit", 2014 and 2015.)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://theessayreview.org/essayistic-interventions-taking-the-city-into-the-theater/\|title=Essayistic Interventions: Taking the City into the Theater – The Essay Review\|publisher=TheEssayReview.org\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref> He received the [[Creative Capital]] Award in 2012 to make the film ''No More Road Trips?,''<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://nomoreroadtrips.blogspot.com/\|title=No More Road Trips?\|first=Prelinger\|last=Library\|date=March 8, 2013\|publisher=Prelinger Library No Morer Road Trips? blog\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pui2LMn2JMQ \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/pui2LMn2JMQ \|archive-date=2021-12-13 \|url-status=live\|title=No More Road Trips? A dream ride through 20th-century America made from home movies\|last=Prelinger Archives\|date=September 15, 2016\|accessdate=May 21, 2018\|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which premiered in [[Austin, Texas]], at [[South by Southwest]] in March 2013.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2013-03-08/traveling-road-show/\|title=A rowdy look back at the home movies a nation's road trips have inspired\|work=[[Austin Chronicle]]\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>		His feature-length film ''Panorama Ephemera'' opened in summer 2004. With spouse Megan Prelinger he is co-founder of the [[Prelinger Library]], a reference library located in San Francisco, California. He has produced such archival compilation films ''Lost Landscapes of San Francisco'' (15 annual films, 2006–2020) and ''Lost Landscapes of Detroit'' (three films, 2010–2012 and a fourth and fifth, "Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit", 2014 and 2015.)

	He wrote ''The Field Guide to Sponsored Films'' (2007) which "describes 452 historically or culturally significant motion pictures commissioned by businesses, charities, advocacy groups, and state or local government units between 1897 and 1980." It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the [[National Film Preservation Foundation]]. He worked at the Internet Archive on a texts-digitization project~~{{cn\|date=June 2018}}~~ and helped organize the [[Open Content Alliance]].~~{{cn\|date=June 2018}}~~		He wrote ''The Field Guide to Sponsored Films'' (2007) which "describes 452 historically or culturally significant motion pictures commissioned by businesses, charities, advocacy groups, and state or local government units between 1897 and 1980." It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the [[National Film Preservation Foundation]]. He worked at the Internet Archive on a texts-digitization project and helped organize the [[Open Content Alliance]].

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==
	* Much of the above content is simply a cut and paste of the wikipedia content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger - [[User:JJR\|JJR]] ([[User talk:JJR\|talk]]) 22:59, 6 January 2022 (EST)		* Much of the above content is simply a cut and paste of the wikipedia content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger - [[User:JJR\|JJR]] ([[User talk:JJR\|talk]]) 22:59, 6 January 2022 (EST)
	* http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger		* http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger
			* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0

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	'''Rick Prelinger''' is an [[archivist]], professor at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger\|title=Rick Prelinger - Film+Digital Media BA, PhD / MFA in Social Documentary Production at UC Santa Cruz\|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref> writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.~~<ref>[http://www.macba.cat/en/rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes Lost Landscapes and Found Collections], Rick Prelinger at [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art\|MACBA]] in Barcelona</ref>~~		'''Rick Prelinger''' is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.

	Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the [[Voyager Company]], a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen [[LaserDisc]]s and [[CD-ROM]]s with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.levity.com/rubric/prelinger.html\|title=Rick Prelinger's Ephemeral Films (Richard Gehr)\|publisher=Levity.com\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>'' the ''Our Secret Century''<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=July 12, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201021147/http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|archive-date=February 1, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|df=mdy-all }}</ref> series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling).<ref>{{cite book\|title=Call it Home: the house that private enterprise built\|first1=Keller\|last1=Easterling\|first2=Richard\|last2=Prelinger\|date=February 15, 2013\|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\|isbn = 978-1481920087}}</ref> For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."<ref>Rick Prelinger, "Dr. Rick Prelinger on Sharing as Activism" video, UCSC Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0</ref>		Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the [[Voyager Company]], a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen [[LaserDisc]]s and [[CD-ROM]]s with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.levity.com/rubric/prelinger.html\|title=Rick Prelinger's Ephemeral Films (Richard Gehr)\|publisher=Levity.com\|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>'' the ''Our Secret Century''<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=July 12, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201021147/http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html \|archive-date=February 1, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|df=mdy-all }}</ref> series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling).<ref>{{cite book\|title=Call it Home: the house that private enterprise built\|first1=Keller\|last1=Easterling\|first2=Richard\|last2=Prelinger\|date=February 15, 2013\|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform\|isbn = 978-1481920087}}</ref> For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."<ref>Rick Prelinger, "Dr. Rick Prelinger on Sharing as Activism" video, UCSC Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0</ref>
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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==
	* Much of the above content is simply a cut and paste of the wikipedia content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger - [[User:JJR\|JJR]] ([[User talk:JJR\|talk]]) 22:59, 6 January 2022 (EST)		* Much of the above content is simply a cut and paste of the wikipedia content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger - [[User:JJR\|JJR]] ([[User talk:JJR\|talk]]) 22:59, 6 January 2022 (EST)
			* http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger

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'''Rick Prelinger''' is an [[archivist]], professor at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/rick_prelinger|title=Rick Prelinger - Film+Digital Media BA, PhD / MFA in Social Documentary Production at UC Santa Cruz|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref> writer and filmmaker, and founder of the [[Prelinger Archives]], a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2002 after 20 years' operation.<ref>[http://www.macba.cat/en/rick-prelinger-lost-landscapes Lost Landscapes and Found Collections], Rick Prelinger at [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art|MACBA]] in Barcelona</ref>

Rick has partnered with the [[Internet Archive]] to make over 6,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the [[Voyager Company]], a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen [[LaserDisc]]s and [[CD-ROM]]s with material from his archives, including ''Ephemeral Films,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.levity.com/rubric/prelinger.html|title=Rick Prelinger's Ephemeral Films (Richard Gehr)|publisher=Levity.com|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>'' the ''Our Secret Century''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=July 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201021147/http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html |archive-date=February 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> series and ''Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built,'' a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling).<ref>{{cite book|title=Call it Home: the house that private enterprise built|first1=Keller|last1=Easterling|first2=Richard|last2=Prelinger|date=February 15, 2013|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn = 978-1481920087}}</ref> For Prelinger, "archives are a primary weapon against amnesia."<ref>Rick Prelinger, "Dr. Rick Prelinger on Sharing as Activism" video, UCSC Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE-pnroiV0</ref>

==Life==
Prelinger worked at [[The Comedy Channel (United States)|The Comedy Channel]] from its startup in 1989 until it merged with the comedy network [[Ha! (TV channel)|HA!]] to become [[Comedy Central]]. He then worked at [[Home Box Office]] until 1995. Prelinger has taught in the [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] design program at New York's [[School of Visual Arts]] and lectures widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access. He sat (2001–2004) on the [[National Film Preservation Board]] as representative of the [[Association of Moving Image Archivists]], was Board President of the [[San Francisco Cinematheque]] (2002–2007), and is a board member of the [[Internet Archive]] and a professor in the Department of Film & Digital Media at [[University of California, Santa Cruz|UC Santa Cruz]].

His feature-length film ''Panorama Ephemera'' opened in summer 2004. With spouse [[Megan Prelinger]] he is co-founder of the [[Prelinger Library]], a reference library located in [[San Francisco]], California. He has produced such archival compilation films ''Lost Landscapes of San Francisco'' (15 annual films, 2006–2020) and ''Lost Landscapes of Detroit'' (three films, 2010–2012 and a fourth and fifth, "Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit", 2014 and 2015.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theessayreview.org/essayistic-interventions-taking-the-city-into-the-theater/|title=Essayistic Interventions: Taking the City into the Theater – The Essay Review|publisher=TheEssayReview.org|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref> He received the [[Creative Capital]] Award in 2012 to make the film ''No More Road Trips?,''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nomoreroadtrips.blogspot.com/|title=No More Road Trips?|first=Prelinger|last=Library|date=March 8, 2013|publisher=Prelinger Library No Morer Road Trips? blog|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pui2LMn2JMQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/pui2LMn2JMQ |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=No More Road Trips? A dream ride through 20th-century America made from home movies|last=Prelinger Archives|date=September 15, 2016|accessdate=May 21, 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which premiered in [[Austin, Texas]], at [[South by Southwest]] in March 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2013-03-08/traveling-road-show/|title=A rowdy look back at the home movies a nation's road trips have inspired|work=[[Austin Chronicle]]|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref>

He wrote ''The Field Guide to Sponsored Films'' (2007) which "describes 452 historically or culturally significant motion pictures commissioned by businesses, charities, advocacy groups, and state or local government units between 1897 and 1980." It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the [[National Film Preservation Foundation]]. He worked at the Internet Archive on a texts-digitization project{{cn|date=June 2018}} and helped organize the [[Open Content Alliance]].{{cn|date=June 2018}}

== See Also ==
* Much of the above content is simply a cut and paste of the wikipedia content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Prelinger - [[User:JJR|JJR]] ([[User talk:JJR|talk]]) 22:59, 6 January 2022 (EST)