Staff Picks from the Prelinger Archives

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

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Join Prelinger Archives  in showcasing rare finds and staff insights from three years of mass-digitization funded by the Filecoin Foundation

Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the project, Prelinger Archives staff have scanned over 3 million feet of film and uploaded over 2000 items, while collectively developing practices of inclusive and reparative description to allow multiple avenues into a vast trove of moving images. This curated screening will highlight rarities and treasures within the collection that have inspired, delighted and bewildered staff. The speakers, all Prelinger Archives staff, will each share experiences from the project as footage is screened and will speak to working with a unique collection that contains a wide array of materials (outtakes, home movies, warped films). The screening will be followed by a moderated Q&A. Presentations by Megan Shaw Prelinger, Brian Eggert, Kristin Lipska, Emily Chao, Jennifer Miko, Megan Needels, Kate Dollenmayer and Adrianne Finelli.

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