ephemeral film-age.

Many of you may have noticed the excellent archive of ephemeral films from America's past, presented by Rick Prelinger and freely downloadable at the Internet Archive. There's some hilarious and telling stuff in there, such as 'Duck And Cover' and 'Perversion for Profit'. A number of these clips were formerly compiled for Voyager's 12-disc epic CD-ROM series, 'Our Secret Century' (which is awfully high on my wish list for the CD-ROM archive.) But if you want to watch similarly carefully chosen highlights, Fantoma has recently compiled the 'Educational Archive' DVDs, with some Prelinger-contributed, similarly amusing contents about sex, drugs, driver's ed, and all the _important_ things in life.