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March, 2008: TAMI Executive Director, Caroline Frick, presents “Hollywood at Home: Film History and Preservation, Texas Style” to members of the public at The University of Texas at Austin’s “Explore UT” – a weekend “open house” at the university.
February, 2008: The 1930s version of Melton Barker’s “The
Kidnapper’s Foil” was
screened to a sold out crowd at the IFC Center
in New York City. The
Childress, TX version was selected as the
closing finale of the curated program entitled “Best
of the Orphan Film Symposium: Stranger
Than Fiction.”
October, 2007: TAMI
joins over 23 countries around the
globe in contributing moving image material
towards the celebration of UNESCO’s
first annual
World
Day for Audiovisual Heritage. In
addition to its web presence, the trailer
also played on monitors at the UNESCO
general conference in Paris.
September, 2007: TAMI participates in the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in Rochester, New York. Senior Archivist, Megan Peck, provided an overview of TAMI programs and goals for the Regional Audiovisual Archivists’ panel: “Outreach, Preservation and Access Initiatives Within and Between Regions.”
July, 2007: TAMI goes south of the border, down Mexico way! Invited to showcase Texas’ rich contribution to American filmmaking, TAMI presents “From Méliès to Melton: A Century of Texas Filmmaking” at the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
April, 2007: TAMI assists in the annual Texas Speaker of the House “reunion” by digitizing archival campaign footage and home movie material from former Speakers in the first stage of a larger “Speakers” film collection. See our Texas House Speakers Collection.
August, 2006: TAMI sponsors Austin's first Home Movie Day at the Hideout Theatre on Congress Avenue. In front of a packed house, the all-volunteer staff inspects and screens films ranging from footage of UT from 1946 and a number of family holidays caputured on film, to home movies of the 1957 Lampasas flood and a fantastic horror film shot in San Marcos in the 1960s. For more information, see our Press Page.
April, 2006: TAMI films head to Hong Kong!! Brilliant color movies of San Antonio's La Villita are screened as a part of UNESCO’s New Heritage Conference in Hong Kong, helping illustrate the value of the moving image in interpreting historical sites. Also shown are a number of newsreels featuring unique images of the state – helping communicate the importance of Texas film preservation as a component of the globe’s cultural heritage.
November, 2005: TAMI participates in the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists conference. Director Caroline Frick chairs a film preservation panel, “Texas Triage.”
October, 2005: TAMI and The Rio Grande Institute, with funding from Humanities Texas, launch the Rio Grande Border Filmography. See our Collections page for more information.
Summer, 2005: TAMI collaborates with the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum on their exhibit TEXAS MOVIES. TAMI staff assists the museum's summer camp, "TEXpeditions," by teaching the kid campers Texas film history and organizing new video versions of The Kidnapper’s Foil. See Collections for more information on this film series.