Rick Prelinger [SEP] date of birth
Rick Prelinger
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writer and filmmaker, and 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
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- Prelinger, Rick. "On the Virtues of Preexisting Material," Black Oyster Catcher, blog, May 30, 2007. Republished as "Prelinger Manifesto: On the Virtues of Preexisting Material," "Enclosure of the Commons" blog Feb. 23, 2010; and in "Contents" magazine no. 5 (2013).
- Prelinger, Rick, with Raegan Kelly. “Panorama Ephemera,” "Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular", vol. 2.