You are warmly encouraged to download, use and reproduce these films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. One final thing worth keeping in mind, the Archive comes with this invitation: 1965’s equally cautionary (as well as often unintentionally hilarious) Perversion for Profit, offers a stern two– part warning against the “pornography which may appear at the local newsstand, malt shop or drugstore.” We’ve previously featured 1958’s Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, a UCLA student short Ayun Halliday described as the tale of “a white-collar dad and housewife mom… marooned in their individual existential hells, unable to connect” due to the labor-saving devices of the day.
In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division,” and now holds “approximately 11,000 digitized and videotape titles (all originally derived from film) and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films acquired since 2002.” Its mission? “To collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere.”Īnd what can you find amid these 6000-odd pieces of ephemera hosted on ? At first glance, they may really strike you as 6000 odd pieces. “Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 ‘ephemeral’ (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. “Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City,” says the collection’s about page.
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