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Rick Prelinger W6XBE

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Library experimenter. Bd mbr @internetarchive. Writing about useful radio. Makes live archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned.

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Joined February 2007
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @mimeticmagic: I got to check out the Prelinger library today, an independent research library focused on eclectic, uncommon epherema, b….
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RT @Nahshondion: Searching for archival footage for my documentary, My Beloved Altadena, I found Charles Forbes Taylor’s beautiful 1949 hom….
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Join millions who have switched to Grok.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
3 months
Lovely video about Prelinger Library by empowa:
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14.5K likes, 64 comments. “for people who love oddities 💞”
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @saturnianheaven: browsing the prelinger archive and some of these home movies are absolutely gorgeous somebody has to do something with….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
3 months
Proud of this amazing group! .
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SF Doc Festival event highlights ephemeral movies.
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RT @librarycongress: The Golden Gate Bridge opened to the public for the first time on this day in 1937. 200,000+ people paid 25¢ to walk t….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
4 months
The online #prelinger collection just reached 10,000 items. Over 1200 high-quality scans reflect our film scanning collaboration with #ffdweb and many more are coming soon. Please watch, teach and make new work with these films.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @internetarchive: “No film left unscanned.” 🎞️ Film historian Rick Prelinger (@footage) explains why motion picture film is vanishing, a….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @BayAreaClipper: Let's take a trip down Market Street "before the fire" in April 1906. Enjoy this selection of #TBT moments approachin….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @FFDWeb: March 21 - Online w/ SF Film Preserve. March 24 - In Person 📍@internetarchive.See you there!. Links↓.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @FFDWeb: Since kicking off its collaboration with @FFDWeb in 2022, Prelinger Archives has. 📽️ Scanned over 3 million feet of film and….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @internetarchive: 📽️ Join us for the STAFF PICKS FROM THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES screening with the staff sharing their experiences preservi….
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RT @internetarchive: Home movies capture the moments that define our lives—family celebrations, everyday joys. Yet, these films are vanishi….
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RT @internetarchive: THE MOVING IMAGE: A USER'S MANUAL examines how video shapes our world. 🌐 Join PETER B. KAUFMAN & RICK PRELINGER for an….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @jeffkolar: I’m honored to present The Other Spectrum, a new evening length performance featuring a lecture by Rick Prelinger @footage o….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @internetarchive: Earlier this week, we hosted over 500 people at the Internet Archive for Lost Landscapes 2024: Streets, People, Play—a….
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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RT @ScreenSlate: Craig Baldwin is the father of all pixel pirates, liberators of most media and renegade film programmers. He completely ch….
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CRAIG BALDWIN, the genius found footage filmmaker, legendary … Friends of Craig Baldwin needs your support for HELP SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF S.F. FILMMAKER CRAIG BALDWIN!!
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
8 months
Another quakelet in San Francisco's Richmond District just now, this one calmer but longer, stuff shaking in the house. #earthquake.
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Rick Prelinger W6XBE
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Officially it's 3.7 but we were very close to epicenter.
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