Richard Prelinger is president of Prelinger! Associates Inc., New York, which owns and operates the Prelinger Archives holding over 33000 ephemeral (advertising, industrial, educational documentary and amateur) films and over 30000 cans of unedited footage. Mr Prelinger is publisher of Footage 89: North American Film and Video Sources, a guide to archival and production collections and Footage 91, its supplemental volume on CD-ROM.

He is a consultant to motion picture and television producers, archives and collections. His areas of expertise include archival business development and management, perspectives on new and emerging media and intellectual property evalution and appraisal. Prelinger has furnished archival footage to thousands of productions in all media, including motion pictures, television programs, interactive programming, educational and documentary productions, independent/experimental films and videotapes and corporate/institutional shows. Prelinger! Associates Inc. is currently producing (with the Voyager Company) Our Secret History, a series of CD-ROMs featuring archival films, text, still images and other material relating to the hidden history of the twentieth century.

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