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• Commented on MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
  @Ian70: good point about EBN. Bunch of convergent work back then. Mark Pellington (co-producer of BUZZ) had worked as an on-air promo producer at MTV and was a key vector of the scratchy look and found-footage sensibility that characterized the...
• Commented on MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
  With Kathy High, I produced the segments on virtual reality (with Jaron Lanier and Scott Fisher), hackers (RU Sirius, John "Captain Crunch" Draper, Lee Felsenstein and others), and cryonics. It was amazing interviewing legendary figures in their homes and workplaces,...
• Commented on Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco archival film night, Dec 4
  The first two installments didn't make it online. Long Now uploaded the third. It's a live event, and the audience-supplied questions, comments and shoutouts are what make it really sing, so I haven't been that eager about putting out a...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  I'm afraid that the Fishers may be encouraging journalists to characterize the opposition to their plan in dismissive terms. With great respect, Pesco, this isn't the only point of view. No one disagrees that it would be wonderful for this...
• Commented on GM's 'Tomorrow-Land' at the 1964 World's Fair
  I highly recommend the GM film "Out of This World," which is a somewhat fantastic perspective on the pavilion and the 1964 Futurama: http://www.archive.org/details/out_of_this_world Rick...
• Commented on 1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud?
  How can you authenticate a photocopied poster, anyway? Many of the originals in our collection were run off at the cheapest copy centers and you can't tell what's first generation and what isn't. You have to be pretty good to...
• Commented on It's All in the Widgets
  Hey, Douglas -- If you found a way to add a link to the source of the film -- the detail pages at the Internet Archive -- many of the questions that people are posting might find an answer, and...
• Commented on School bus with camper "enhancement"
  hey, just walked out of our library and saw this, and yes, saw the ticket too. small small world....
• Commented on How a truck driver learned to build an atom bomb
  Coster-Mullen's book is GREAT. My father-in-law has been reading it for two days. We'll be privileged to have it in the Prelinger Library....
• Commented on Lost Landscapes of San Francisco audience-participation archival film showing this Friday in SF
  A number of the films from which I harvested clips are online. Some are in this list: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=market%20street%20AND%20collection%3Aprelinger%20AND%20subject%3A%22San%20Francisco%3A%20Scenics%3A%20Historical%22 I've retransferred a bunch of the material in the show to improve its quality, and quite a lot of this year's program...
• Commented on The Radio Shack Catalog archive
  The first Shack was indeed in Boston. The second was in my hometown, New Haven, on a block of Crown Street that had somehow escaped the wrecking balls that tore the heart out of the city in the late 1950s...
• Commented on Photos from the Scopes "Monkey" trial -- public domain images from the Smithsonian
  And here's the Prelinger Library copy of the textbook that Mr. Scopes taught from: http://www.archive.org/details/civicbiologypres00huntrich Darwin appears toward the end. Rick...
• Commented on Radio Ephemera
  The link to the Prelinger Library is http://www.prelingerlibrary.org....
• Commented on Czech futuristic kitchen video from 1957
  This is the Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, and the footage is probably a newsreel handout (what we would now call a video news release). See Design for Dreaming at archive.org/details/prelinger....
• Commented on UPA's "Man on the Land" industrial cartoon
  There's an incomplete but fully downloadable and unrestricted copy of this public domain film at the Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org/details/ManOnTheLand. -- Rick P....
• Commented on Pro-tech/anti-commie vid from the 1939 World's Fair
  In his book "Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1933–1955," William L. Bird discusses this film and others, placing them in the context of industry's New Deal-era attempt to capture the hearts and minds of...