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			{{Short description\|Film collection}}
	The Prelinger Archive is an online collection of approximately four-thousand ] video clips - including some full length ] - available for download in a number of formats. Neither a charge nor a membership is required for visitors to make full use of the contents of the site. While many of the clips available at this site are either very old corporate advertisements or films made by the government, the archive also contains a number of ] cartoons, ] episodes, and other items of pop culture significance which are in the public domain because their ] has expired.
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			The '''Prelinger Archives''' is a collection of ]s relating to ], the evolution of the American ], ], and ]. Originally based in ] from 1982 through 2002, it is now based in ].

			==History==
⚫	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."
			The Archives were founded by ]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Rick Prelinger: We have always recycled \|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/rick-prelinger-we-have-always-recycled \|website=British Film Institute \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324013952/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/rick-prelinger-we-have-always-recycled \|archive-date=March 24, 2024}}</ref> in 1982 to preserve what he calls "]" 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=] \|year=2006 \|url=http://www.filmpreservation.org/dvds-and-books/the-field-guide-to-sponsored-film \|access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref> Typically, ] were produced to fulfill specific purposes at specific times, and many exist today only by chance or accident.<ref>.</ref> About 65% of the Archive's holdings are in the ] because their copyrights have expired, or because they were U.S. productions that were published without proper copyright notice.

			==Criteria==
	The archive is located at: http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
		⚫	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".<ref name=archivesabout>{{cite web\|url=https://archive.org/details/prelinger \|title=About \|work=Prelinger Archives\|access-date=October 17, 2023}}</ref>

			By 2001, it had acquired 60,000 completed films of varying lengths and over 30,000 cans of unedited film. In 2002, the ]<ref>.</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. 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.

			Compared to many other moving-image archives, Prelinger Archives provides a relatively high level of public access to its collections. Over 8,500 ] films are available for download and unrestricted reuse on the Internet at the ]. All the films in the archives can be licensed for production use through ].

			Prelinger Archives currently focuses principally on collecting home movies and amateur film, and has approximately 30,000 items as of Fall 2023.<ref name=archivesabout/>

			==Gallery==
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			File:Perversion for Profit part 1.ogv\|'']'' part 1
			File:125th Street Ferry.jpg\|The 125th Street Ferry in ] from 1941.
			File:Yankee Stadium 1956.png\|], 1956 screen capture
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			==Notes==
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			==Further reading==
			* {{cite journal\|last=James\|first=Susan\|url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17748\|title=Rick Prelinger, ''Our Secret Century: Archival Films from the Darker Side of the American Dream''\|journal=]\|volume=47\|issue=1}} -

			==External links==
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			* {{official website\|http://www.prelinger.com/}}
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Latest revision as of 08:27, 18 September 2024

Film collection For the similarly named related project, see Prelinger Library.

The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life, and social history. Originally based in New York City from 1982 through 2002, it is now based in San Francisco.

History

The Archives were founded by Rick Prelinger in 1982 to preserve what he calls "ephemeral" films: films sponsored by corporations and organizations, educational films, and amateur and home movies. Typically, ephemeral films were produced to fulfill specific purposes at specific times, and many exist today only by chance or accident. 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.

Criteria

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".

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 acquired the physical films held in the Archives as of that date. The Archives made two subsequent donations to Library of Congress totalling some 65,000 cans of film, primarily industrial and educational titles. 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.

Compared to many other moving-image archives, Prelinger Archives provides a relatively high level of public access to its collections. Over 8,500 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.

Prelinger Archives currently focuses principally on collecting home movies and amateur film, and has approximately 30,000 items as of Fall 2023.