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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{for|the similarly named related project|Prelinger Library}}<br />
The '''Prelinger Archives''' is a collection of [[film]]s relating to [[U.S. cultural history]], the evolution of the American [[landscape]], [[everyday life]], and [[social history]].<ref name=npr/> It was in [[New York City]] from 1982 to 2002 and is now in [[San Francisco]].<br />
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==History==<br />
The Archives were founded by [[Rick Prelinger]] in 1982<ref name=npr>Audio: [http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905141000 Richard and Megan Prelinger interview] at [[KQED-FM]] (NPR) (1 hour)</ref> to preserve what he calls "[[ephemeral]]" films: films sponsored by corporations and organizations, educational films, and amateur and home movies.<ref name=prelinger>{{Citation |last=Prelinger |first=Rick |author-link=Rick Prelinger |title=The Field Guide to Sponsored Films |place=San Francisco, California |publisher=[[National Film Preservation Foundation]] |year=2006 |url=http://www.filmpreservation.org/dvds-and-books/the-field-guide-to-sponsored-film |access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref> Typically, [[Sponsored film|ephemeral films]] were produced to fulfill specific purposes at specific times, and many exist today only by chance or accident.<ref>[https://vimeo.com/18573291 Ephemeral Films by Rick Prelinger on Vimeo]</ref> About 65% of the Archive's holdings are in the [[public domain]] because their copyrights have expired, or because they were U.S. productions that were published without proper copyright notice.<br />
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==Criteria==<br />
The stated goal of the Prelinger Archives is to "collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere".<br />
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By 2001, it had acquired 60,000 completed films of varying lengths and over 30,000 cans of unedited film. In 2002, the [[Library of Congress]]<ref>[https://vimeo.com/60576868 EPHEMERA: The Prelinger Archives (March 2013 Edition) on Vimeo]</ref> acquired the physical films held in the Archives as of that date.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.panix.com/~footage/lcfaq.html |title = The Prelinger Collection at the Library of Congress}}</ref> The Archives made two subsequent donations to Library of Congress totalling some 65,000 cans of film, primarily industrial and educational titles.<ref name=npr/> As of spring 2015, the Archives holds about 8,000 films in videotape and digital form, approximately 14,000 home movies, and 1,000 industrial and sponsored films acquired since 2002.<br />
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Compared to many other moving-image archives, Prelinger Archives provides a relatively high level of public access to its collections. Over 6,400 [[public domain]] films are available for download and unrestricted reuse on the Internet at the [[Internet Archive]]. All the films in the archives can be licensed for production use through [[Getty Images]].<br />
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Prelinger Archives currently focuses principally on collecting home movies and amateur film from North America.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Perversion for Profit part 1.ogv|''[[Perversion for Profit]]'' part 1<br />
File:125th Street Ferry.jpg|The 125th Street Ferry in [[New York City]] from 1941.<br />
File:Yankee Stadium 1956.png|[[Yankee Stadium]], 1956 screen capture<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{commons category|Prelinger Archives}}<br />
* {{official website|http://www.prelinger.com/}}<br />
* [https://www.panix.com/~footage/ pannix.com]<br />
* [https://www.panix.com/~footage/periodicals.html Periodicals]<br />
* [http://www.prelingerlibrary.org/ Prelinger Library]<br />
* {{Internet Archive collection|id=prelinger|name=Prelinger Archives}}<br />
* [http://spotsunknown.com/interview-with-san-franciscos-guerrilla-archivist-rick-prelinger/ Rick Prelinger interview - Spots Unknown]<br />
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[[Category:Film archives in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Public domain]]<br />
[[Category:Library of Congress]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations established in 1982]]<br />
[[Category:Audiovisual ephemera]]<br />
[[Category:1982 establishments in New York City]]<br />
[[Category:Articles containing video clips]]<br />
[[Category:Internet Archive collections]]</div>w>HugoHelp