Free moving image resources!
Posted by Steve Hull on Thursday 04 June 2009 at 10:42am
Tags:
digital collections |
finding moving images |
music |
repositories |
video
The Prelinger Archive is a collection of ‘ephemeral’ films: things like ads, educational films, industrial films, things that don’t usually get collected in archives.
All are downloadable and free for all to use. This isn’t a new resource, but I felt that something so remarkable isn’t nearly well know enough and thought it was worth a blog. Some of my favourites: Duck and Cover, the infamous 1951 film explaining to children how to protect yourself from a nuclear explosion by hiding under your desk, and their collection of soundies, music videos avant la lettre made for a juke box that showed short films which was manufactured during the 40s.
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Comment posted by Zak Mensah on 08 June 2009 at 8:31am
Hi Ian,
The link appears to be there, perhaps this was spotted by another member of the team. Thank you for contacting us about it.
Regards
Zak
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Comment posted by Ian Cooper on 04 June 2009 at 3:58pm
I think you missed the link to the actual archive of materials:
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger