SAN FRANCISCO -- Prelinger Library has a page-turning history as San Francisco's urban oasis for research, reading, and inspiration. The space is 72 feet deep with shelves 14 feet high, each filled ...
Inside a fluorescent-lit corridor, tucked away on the top floor of a cavernous Richmond warehouse, the smell hits like a freight train. The strip came all the way from Detroit. It’s brittle and ...
Rick Prelinger produces a film series called “Lost Landscapes," montages that present city life across 100 years. These portraits tell hidden histories of American cities through the most personal of ...
The Prelinger Library is a gem. Founded in 2004 and operated by Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger, the library houses over 50,000 books, periodicals and pieces of print ephemera, the collection ...
The Prelinger Archives holds some 15,000 reels of home movies. Courtesy: Rick Prelinger Start watching the home movies in the Prelinger Archive and you lose all sense of time. You don’t know the ...
This is a conversation by email between Rick Prelinger, Anna Ramos, Vicki Bennett and Jon Leidecker, which took place on April 2011 in parallel to the Memorabilia. Collecting sounds with... lecture ...
Excerpts from "Ask Me Don't Tell Me," a 1961 promotional film about at-risk youth in San Francisco, depict scenes from 1960s Mission District. The film is part of Rick Prelinger's vast collection of ...
A camera pans the streets of downtown Los Angeles from the window of a moving car, cruising past Mickie’s Café, John’s Dog House, an Orange Julius, the Angel’s Flight Café and the Burbank Burlesque, ...
Rick Prelinger is an archivist and professor at UC Santa Cruz. He's a collector of found and discarded footage: home movies, outtakes from industrial videos and never before seen b-roll from old ...
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