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For over one hundred years, film and video have uniquely documented history. In Texas, early films recorded Native American traditions, the boom time in oil fields, and daily life in both rural and urban communities across the state. In 1963, a Texas home movie became one of the most famous films of all time: The Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Yet no institution has emerged that is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of moving images specifically related to Texas -- until now. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image celebrates the state's home movies, industrial films, television output, and regional cine-club product as well as Hollywood and internationally produced images of Texas. Valuable to state history, these films also serve an important collaborative role in the preservation and restoration of the larger motion picture heritage for the United States.
Caroline Frick, founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), received her MA in Film Archiving and Film History from the University of East Anglia, UK and obtained her PhD in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her work with TAMI, Dr. Frick worked in film preservation at Warner Bros., the Library of Congress, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Dr. Frick also programmed films for the American Movie Classics cable channel in New York and continues to serve on a number of film preservation advisory panels across the U.S.