LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO

Rick Prelinger will be hosting Lost Landscapes 3, an interactive and celebratory evening of rarely-seen local history. Here's the announcement: LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO Friday, December 19, 2008 at 7:30 pm curated and presented by Rick Prelinger under the auspices of the Long Now Foundation Seminars About Long Term Thinking Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Prelinger will be presenting his third annual "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, an eclectic montage of lost and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the film with a brief talk on how fragmentary, incomplete histories are being overtaken by pervasive real-time documentation, and how history, memory and property are combining into a new matrix of experience. Since 1983 Rick has been collecting ephemeral films: advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur works. In 2002, the Prelinger film collection of over 200,000 items was acquired by the Library of Congress; much of it is available online at the Internet Archive. In 2004 Prelinger and spouse Megan opened the Prelinger Library in downtown San Francisco, which includes over 50,000 pieces of print ephemera, books, periodicals, maps and zines. We encourage the audience to interact with the film, especially to identify mystery scenes! After the event will be a reception and holiday party at the nearby Long Now Museum and Store. The Prelingers, Long Now's staff and board will be on hand, and we plan to project footage from the Prelinger Archive on every surface we can. Light snacks and wine will be served. Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm (lasting about 1.5 hours) Located at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco Directions: http://www.fortmason.org/directions/index.shtml Further details: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/ [5] -- Rick Prelinger Prelinger Archives http://www.prelinger.com P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622 USA footage@panix.com Prelinger Library: http://www.prelingerlibrary.org NEW: Prelinger Library Digital Collections http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_library