Biography
Rick Prelinger is an American archivist, writer, and filmmaker. A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Prelinger is best known as the 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 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."
Filmography
all 13
Movies 13
Director 6
self 4
Narrator 1
Lost Landscapes 2022: Past Glimpses and Possible Futures (2022)
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth (but were afraid to ask) (2019)
All-Is-Well (2016)
Overgames (2016)
Station to Station (2014)
Yesterday And Tomorrow In Detroit (2014)
No More Road Trips? (2013)
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation (2011)
Dust of America (2011)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Panorama Ephemera (2004)
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)
Lost Landscapes of Oakland
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GenderMale
Birthday1953-01-01 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceWashington, D.C., United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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