the prelinger archives

slavin

i'm sure some headz know about this, but for everyone else.. check this site out, tons of great stuff.

prelinger archives

Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 48,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere.

http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

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a few of my favorites:



match your mood
http://www.archive.org/details/match_your_mood



keep off the grass
http://www.archive.org/details/keep_off_the_grass



a day in the death of donny b.
http://www.archive.org/details/DayInTheDeathofDonny


mr. finley's feelings
http://www.archive.org/details/mr_finleys_feelings


there's still a ton of others i need to see.

Dustbuster

My favorite one is about the "Homosexual Menace" with the creepy looking "pedophile". I love how they imply that the kid is partly to blame for it. God, what it must have been like to grow up in the 50's.

slavin

this one is awesome too

DOWN AND OUT



a workplace safety film, dude is just constantly tripping and falling.

http://www.archive.org/details/down_and_out