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Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4

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Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

The Long Now Foundation

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Partner:: Long Now Foundation
Location:: Herbst Theatre
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 12.04.09
Speakers:: Stewart Brand,; Rick Prelinger,; Suzanne Ramsey
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Summary: The fourth incarnation of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco played to a sold out house at the Herbst Theater with the chanteuse Suzanne Ramsey opening the evening with a selection of historical San Francisco songs including the 01926 gem, "Masculine Women Feminine Men."

Rick Prelinger's archive contains hundreds of historical films showing San Francisco and Northern California history, the history of technology and industry, and everyday life.

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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award), and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now; How Buildings Learn; and The Media Lab. His most recent book, titled Whole Earth Discipline, is published by Viking in the US and Atlantic in the UK.

Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation.

Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 1,970 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including "Ephemeral Films," the "Our Secret Century" series and "Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built," a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning (co-produced with architect Keller Easterling).

He worked at the Comedy Channel from its startup in 1989 until it was merged into the comedy network HA!, and then worked at Home Box Office until 1995. Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectures widely on American cultural and social history and on issues of cultural and intellectual property access.

He sat (2001-2004) on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, was Board President of the San Francisco Cinematheque (2002-2007), and is currently Board President of the Internet Archive.His feature-length film "Panorama Ephemera," depicting the conflicted landscapes of 20th-century America, opened in summer 2004. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library (with spouse Megan Shaw Prelinger), an appropriation-friendly reference library located in San Francisco.

Suzanne Ramsey

Known as Kitten on the Keys, Suzanne Ramsey is a pianist, singer and Master of Ceremonies.

She has been seen on E!, HBO, IFC, NBC, Queer TV, Bravo, MTV and on countless French and Italian TV shows.

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01 hr 46 min 55 sec

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01.: Kitten on the Keys Sings

06 min 51 sec

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02.: Introduction to the Film

07 min 29 sec

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03.: Autogiro Lands in Civic Center

03 min 11 sec

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04.: The Bay Bridge

07 min 59 sec

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05.: Strike in San Francisco

06 min 55 sec

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06.: Barbary Coast

02 min 13 sec

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07.: Chinatown and Gee Family Movies

06 min 24 sec

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08.: Market Street

07 min 40 sec

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09.: Footage After 1906 Earthquake

01 min 18 sec

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10.: Cable Car Outtakes

04 min 14 sec

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11.: BART Promotional Film

03 min 05 sec

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12.: Trip to the Golden Gate International Expo

03 min 49 sec

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13.: Lakeshore and Golden Gate Park

03 min 50 sec

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14.: Youth on the Street and Fill Up at the Gas Station

05 min 10 sec

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15.: Wartime Home Movies

04 min 24 sec

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16.: Ocean Beach and Play Land

08 min 28 sec

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17.: Power of the Moving Image

03 min 58 sec

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18.: Preferred Subject Matter

04 min 13 sec

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19.: Archival Footage Can Shed Light on Future

01 min 33 sec

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20.: How to Find Archival Footage

01 min 39 sec

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21.: Switch to Video

04 min 16 sec

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22.: Access to the Human Past

03 min 28 sec

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23.: Strikes and Riots Haven't Changed

04 min 44 sec

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Crossing San Francisco Bay: A Bridge Is Born

08 min 16 sec

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Archivist Rick Prelinger shows found film footage of San Francisco's Bay Bridge from various periods during its construction and shortly after its completion.

Footage includes a trip across the bridge on the rail line that was originally operated on the lower deck.
Rick Prelinger Archives 1934 San Francisco General Strike

05 min 21 sec

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Rick Prelinger exhibits old films taken during the San Francisco General Strike in 1934, including a newsreel with interviews and footage of riots in the street.
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01 hr 46 min 55 sec

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