The Rick Prelinger film archive in San Francisco covers more than 48,000 titles, ranging from 1903 to 1980. Using clips from his archive and other reappropriated footage, Prelinger will discuss efforts to promote the free exchange of films that document our social and cultural history. Joining him for the discussion will be filmmakers Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniel, who use archival footage in their own work, including Renwick's Britton, South Dakota, a haunted recasting of footage from a seemingly benign small town in the late 1930s.

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