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Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit now available for download and remix

Cory Doctorow at 11:17 pm Mon, Feb 22, 2010

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Film archivist Rick Prelinger sez, "Thanks to word of mouth and Boing Boing, Lost Landscapes of Detroit [ed: a show of public domain footage showing the grand landscapes of Detroit in its heyday] screened two weeks ago to a standing-room-only and vocal audience of Detroiters. It's now online for free downloading (and, I hope, massive and widespread re-editing). If you want to see Detroit as it was, and hopefully as it will be again, check it out. The screening was such a success that I was immediately invited back to do it again next year. For this to happen, I need your help. If you have archival film of Detroit, preferably unseen (especially family and home movies), I'd love to connect. If the material looks as if it might fit, I'd like to speak with you about transferring it to high-quality video at my expense for use in the next program. This is a pro-bono project, and the help of many makes it possible. Thanks!"

Lost Landscapes of Detroit 2010 (Thanks, Rick!)

Previously:
  • Lost Landscapes of Detroit from the Prelinger Archives
  • Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco archival film night ...
  • Prelinger Archives in Los Angeles 1/31/2009 - Boing Boing
  • Prelinger Movie Collection on the Internet Archive - Boing Boing
  • Harper's Magazine on the Prelinger Archive - Boing Boing
  • Prelinger Archive gems - Boing Boing
  • Rick Prelinger, lord of ephemeral film - Boing Boing
  • Atomic bomb-related footage in Prelinger Archive - Boing Boing
  • Boing Boing: Prelinger Movie Collection on the Internet Archive

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • Thutmose

    I took the highest quality video available and made some panoramas out of the footage. It was all put together pretty quickly, so I didn’t take the time to really refine everything or do touch ups. It was done just for fun. Link (47 megs) – http://rpgmakerxp.us/files/Detroit%20Panos.rar

  • nomoniker

    Awesome.

    I’m in Detroit right right now and my friends shoot in high def. If there’s something in particular or you want to know about some particulars shoot me a re:re:.

    Cheers!