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A/V Geeks
Collector of educational films boasts owning more than 8000 titles, and provides a schedule of showings, online screenings, and purchase options.
http://www.avgeeks.com/
Coon, Ralph - Zinebook Interview
Zine resource provides this interview with the creator of "The Last Prom," a zine which analyzes driver's education films.
http://www.zinebook.com/interv/lastprom.html
Ephemeral Films Resources - Rick Prelinger
Resource guide provides links and a bibliography covering this genre, which includes dated public welfare documentaries and found footage films.
http://www.prelinger.com/ephemeral.html
FOOTAGE.net
Stock footage supplier to advertising, film, TV, and new media production professionals around the world.
http://www.footage.net/
Highway Safety Films Project, The
Read about "Hell's Highway," a documentary about Highway Safety Films, the makers of those notoriously grizzly educational movies.
http://www.cinemaweb.com/highwaysafety/
Internet Archive: Movie Collection
Download any of almost 750 now-humorous "mental hygiene," public service documentaries, and classic commercials at this impressive archive.
http://www.archive.org/movies/index.html
Luna Blue, A
Provides digitally produced, royalty-free stock footage and images for use in desktop publishing, broadcast, and new media. Check out clips.
http://www.alunablue.com/
Mental Hygiene: Blast Books
Publisher's profile of this book by Ken Smith about classroom films from 1945-1970 includes a few images, purchase info, and some related links.
http://www.blastbooks.com/MH/MH.html
Orphans of the Storm Film Symposium
Read about this symposium dedicated to the preservation and study of "orphan films," which include newsreels, stock footage, and travelogues.
http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium/
Other Cinema
Craig Baldwin hosts this weekly forum for unusual and experimental film at San Francisco's Artist's Television Access. View current schedule.
http://www.othercinema.com/
Our Secret Century - Mediamatic Review
Read Geert J. Srengholt's review of this video series culled from Rick Prelinger's archives of found footage showing the dark side of America.
http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/previews/reviews/strengholt/strengholt=prelinger.html
Our Secret Century - Salon.com
Scott Rosenberg takes a look at this massive CD-ROM set containing American industrial and educational films from the 1930s to 50s.
http://www.salon.com/weekly/voyager960909.html
Prelinger Archives
Rick Prelinger describes how to access his archive of educational films, historical documentaries, civil defense movies, newsreels, and ephemera.
http://www.prelinger.com/prelarch.html
Prelinger, Rick - Media Archaeologist
Article by Rob Walker includes an interview with this infamous film archivist responsible for the collection of ephemera, "Our Secret Century."
http://www.robwalker.net/html_docs/prelinger.html
Prelinger, Rick - Official
Homepage of the film archivist who coined the term "ephemeral films" includes his essays, project descriptions, and archive access information.
http://www.prelinger.com/
Secret Cinema, The
Philadelphia based organization run by Jay Schwartz hosts film presentations of educational films and other neglected genres. View its schedule.
http://www.voicenet.com/~jschwart/
Something Weird Video
Browse the online catalog of this distributor specializing in cult horror, exploitation titles, and ephemeral films, or order the paper version.
http://www.somethingweird.com/
UC San Diego Factual Film Archive
Explore titles in the collections at the UCSD Film and Video Library special archive containing educational, industrial, and amateur films.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/fvl/FACFILM.HTM

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