Rick Prelinger

Panel Leader

Prelinger Archives
P.O. Box 590622
San Francisco, CA 94159-0622
USA

rick@archive.org

Rick Prelinger is a CD ROM developer, media archaeologist, and film scholar. He is famous for his collection of advertisements and instructional films from the 1930s, '40s and '50s, which he has single-handedly preserved. The Prelinger Archives currently host 1,902 titles online, which were recently acquired by the Library of Congress. Prelinger is also a strong advocate for the concept of fair use, and has testified before congressional committees on the subject…

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