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Room 03
Where the prints actually live — the Internet Archive, Prelinger, the Library of Congress, and why a restoration is not the same as the film.
4 pieces in this room · all five rooms
03.01First on the shelf
Describes the Internet Archive's moving-image collection as an institutional resource — its scale, the Prelinger Archives within it, and the difference between a work being in the public domain and a high-quality digitisation existing. Does not link to or embed individual titles.
03.02On the shelf
Profiles the Prelinger Archives — its focus on ephemeral and industrial film, its donation to the Library of Congress, and the separate digitised collection maintained at the Internet Archive.
03.03On the shelf
Explains the Library of Congress National Film Registry selection process, the survival crisis that motivated it, and what the preservation copies held at the Library actually represent in terms of access and copyright.
03.04On the shelf
Argues that a digital restoration of a public-domain film may carry its own copyright if it meets the threshold of originality, and explains the legal basis for that position.