Rick Prelinger
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1953
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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These Amazing Shadows
Overview: Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Overview: This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-27
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Overgames
Overview: On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
Overview: This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-22
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