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Plus! Public Domain 2025, the story of Intellivision and much more!

View this email in your browser Archive    Donate     Blog     Jobs     Volunteer     December 2024 Browsing the Archive Internet Archive Staff Favorites for this Holiday Season This holiday season, take a (web) page from our staff! Explore the Internet Archive team's curated selection of favorite resources on archive.org!  Enjoy this curated selection of movies like Malice in the Palace (1949), books like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, software, games, music, art and more—all hand-picked and recommended by the people who make the Internet Archive possible. TAKE A LOOK Looking Ahead: Public Domain Day 2025  Public Domain Day 2025 is upon us! Filmmakers and artists are invited to celebrate Public Domain Day by creating short films reimagining works entering the public domain on January 1, 2025. This includes treasures from 1929 like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, early Marx Brothers films and much more. Winning entries will be awarded prizes and showcased at the Internet Archive's Public Domain Day Celebration on January 22, 2025, in San Francisco and online. See more on what's entering the public domain and how to submit to the competition in our blog below.  LEARN MORE The Monthly Giving Circle is a community of our patrons who donate each month. To find out more about the program, perks and upcoming events, visit here or contact donations@archive.org. In addition to sustaining our work, Monthly Giving Circle members enjoy exclusive events, benefits, and discounts! Join over 18,000 members by making a recurring monthly donation today. From Our Collections A Computing Carol Intellivision tells the story of Mattel's pioneering video game console that competed with Atari in the late 1970s and 1980s. Through archival research and interviews, the book delves into its games, technology, and marketing, while the authors highlight Intellivision's impact on gaming, the blend of toys and technology, and the social dynamics of play and game design.  Brand Loyalty Wacky Packages is a series of trading cards designed featuring parodies of consumer products. The cards were produced by the Topps Company beginning in 1967. The collection features art from cartoonists and comics artists as Kim Deitch, George Evans, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith, Jay Lynch, Norman Saunders, Art Spiegelman, Bhob Stewart and Tom Sutton. What We're Reading SFGATE: Never-before-seen footage of San Francisco is unearthed every day in a former furniture warehouse ENGADGET: Two early Unreal games are now permanently free via the Internet Archive RICHMOND REVIEW: Richmond Is Home to a Treasure Trove of Digital Information BOING BOING: Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games MEDIANAMA: 'Internet Archive Should Not Be Destroyed in Our Name': 350+ Musicians Speak Against Record Labels' Copyright Lawsuit TUKO: 15 best free MP3 download sites in 2024 (to get songs legally)  If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Internet Archive, we would greatly appreciate your support. You can help out by visiting archive.org/donate or by texting ARCHIVE to 44321. Thank you for helping us provide Universal Access To All Knowledge. DONATE TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE Share Tweet Forward You are receiving this newsletter because of your relationship with the Internet Archive. Review our Privacy Policy Our mailing address is: Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 Want to change how you receive these emails?  You can update your preferences to change what types of notifications you receive, or switch from HTML format to plain text. You can also unsubscribe from this list if you don't want to hear from us again.