Some people have heard I had this program called SCREEN SHOTGUN, which automatically plays games/programs at @internetarchive and makes screenshots, and then uploads those so you get previews. In the vast majority of items at the Archive, this is how the screenshots got there. 
The mechanism to make this work was exactly the sort of thing you'd expect when a non-programmer with a top-hat cargo cults a smashing together of a headless X server against a browser and random full-screen screenshots and random custom crops. Truly an epic crapshow.
I worked with @trumad on and off, first with Flash emulations, and now generally, and we have a screenshotter that does what people suggested for years - directly yank the canvas out of a puppeteer instance. It works spectacularly and a mass of screenshotting will commence.
Also, and precisely 3 people asked me in 5 years of screenshotting, future screenshots at the archive will be in PNG and not JPG format.
AS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE, you can pull any screenshots out of emulated items at the Internet Archive (there will be multiple de-duplicated ones) and use them HOWEVER you like, credit or payment or whatever not necessary. Enjoy.
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