Good to know that Universal Studios kept close tabs on revolutionary cinema in the 1970s!

Pleasant things to smell in #SF, from 1948 textbook for San Francisco schoolchildren.

Is #Facebook over 30? Skidmore College published "The Face Book" in 1981. When did Harvard's start?

The more things change... TIDE, 6/14/1957, hypes @theatlantic 's forthcoming issue on media. @alexismadrigal @faketv

The #prelingerlibrary giveaway cart is overflowing. Come and empty it please.

At the FOCAL Int'l Awards ceremony in London. Disco ambiance:

Ever wanted to know the color code for street excavations? Here it is! #infrastructure #hiddencities #underground

San Fernando Valley gasoline station, woman, child, late 1940s. From feature outtake. #LA #photography #roadside

Odd slate from unknown feature film #archives

Robert Siodmak & Douglas Sirk, neighbors in the Feb. 1951 LA Western phone book #noir #melodrama #telephones #expats

Invasion from #Mars! Newsweek magazine uses 1938 War of the Worlds scare to promote its objectivity, Nov. 1943

Chinese translations (I think) of 1000 Prelinger Archives films http://www.fudanbook.net/bookplus/x/memo/index.html also see

Now that one of the 4 "Scream" paintings is on the block, here's a 2005 photo showing the same Oslo overlook.

Marginalia just #found in old book from college library #conceptualart #messageinbottle

This 1943 image of "Data Hounds" sniffing people's tracks & collecting personal info. #BigData #facebook #datamining

Mushroom cloud visible from the city of Vegas, from a 1958 8mm home movie.

Film censorship title card from state of Ohio, approximately 1931. Many other states did this, including NY & PA.

How much it cost to make a transcon call in 1922, from the SF phone book (for 2011 dollars, multiply by about $12.67)

Lovely slate from a forgotten Hollywood studio stock shot: #archives #forgottenman #ephemera

Here's an ad featuring @Twitter HQ in 1948. (Just four blocks from Prelinger Library.)