Side Project: Score an old video

Check out the videos on the Prelinger Archives. Choose one and create your own score for it. Feel free to edit down the video to whatever length you want. Post it.

More context on Prelinger videos: Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 11,000 digitized and videotape titles (all originally derived from film) and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films acquired since 2002. Its primary collection emphasis has turned toward home movies and amateur films, with approximately 17,000 items held as of Spring 2019. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Getty Imagesrepresents the collection for stock footage sale, and over 6,400 items (representing approximately 4,800 distinct films) are available here.

 Contributor Status: OPEN - We welcome anyone who would like to join the basement sketches posse and contribute to this project.

Project Details:

  1. Pick a video from the Prelinger Archives site.

  2. Cut the video to whatever length you prefer and create a musical score for that video.

  3. Upload your video to YouTube and email Neil the link to post or upload your video to our Dropbox. (email Neil if you need help or have trouble uploading)

  4. Neil will start posting the videos as they roll in.

  5. Side Project videos are due whenever! If you’ve got the ambition to do it, I won’t limit you with arbitrary timelines.

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