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This non-profit organization was founded in 2002 to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The film archivist and University of Texas at Austin professor Dr. Caroline Frick started the initiative and is the executive director of this film archive. The online collection includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas. The goal of this regional AV-archive is to offer insight to Texas’ history and culture. Therefor TAMI partners with institutions and individuals across the state and offers free digitization for Texas-related films and videos that comply to the formulated criteria. Film owners and or producers are invited to drop off their films at one of the Texas Film Round-Up drop-off locations. The Texas Film Round-Up provides free digitization for Texas-related films and videos in exchange for the donation of a digital copy of the materials to www.texasarchive.org. Furthermore, TAMI’s educational programs promote the sharing of Texas moving images via screenings, demonstrations, and lectures at venues across the state. For example, The Texas Archive of the Moving Image’s new lesson plan for grade 4 and grade 7 uses educational films from the 1960s and 1980s to examine the varied experiences of the nineteenth century Texas Empresarios and identify the important contributions of significant individuals. TAMI also works with educators to encourage the use of Texas film in the K-12 social studies classroom.
Inspiring example of how an audiovisual archive can cooperate with its public (i.e. consumers of all types) in order to keep building a digital Texas-related AV-archive and proceed with the digital preservation of this film collection. The archive communicates clearly their acquisition criteria.