Prelinger Archives Official

Official Prelinger Archives YouTube channel. We collect "useful media" — advertising, educational, industrial films made to sell products, promote and persuade, train workers and youth and document the world. We also hold 30,000 home movies (1920s-1980s). In collaboration with Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and Internet Archive, we're currently scanning thousands of new films.

Our archives holds many unusual films, including outtakes from industrial and advertising films, actuality films (films that record real-life events, places or processes) and elements (component parts, like separate picture and soundtrack) of films for which we don't have a finished release print. You will therefore see many films that don't seem complete, but they're here for makers (and anyone else) to use in your own productions and presentations. Keep watching — there's much more to come!

For information on reusing clips from the Archives, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.