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SOMERVELL COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER TO HOST TEXAS FILM ROUND-UP IN GLEN ROSE
Glen Rose, Texas (January 20, 2012) – The Somervell County Heritage Center brings the Texas Film Round-Up to Glen Rose to provide residents with free digitization services for their Texas-related films and videos. Materials can be dropped off at the center from February 6th through 17th during normal business hours, weekdays from 9 am to 5pm. The center will also be open Saturday, February 11th from 9am to 1pm for film and video contributions. A collaboration between the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) and the Texas Film Commission (TFC), the Film Round-Up accepts home movies, educational films, advertisements, local television, and other films in the hopes of preserving Texas’ media heritage.
To qualify for free digitization, participants must be willing to donate a digital copy of their materials to TAMI’s video library: www.texasarchive.org. Original films and videos will be returned to contributors after digitization— along with two DVD copies (or digital files) and information about safe media storage. Loan and Use Agreements can be filled out on-site at Somervell County Heritage Center.
TAMI AWARDED NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION GRANT FOR OLDEST FILM OF HOUSTON
AUSTIN, Texas (October 27, 2011)— The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) announces that the organization’s Story Sloane Collection has been awarded a National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) grant. Comprised of twenty short films of Texas in the 1910s and 1920s, the Sloane Collection includes the oldest film of Houston, footage of a 1915 Shriners Parade. The NFPF grant will provide TAMI will assistance in creating a preservation master and access copies of the rare, nitrate films. After the process is complete, all of the films will be available to view at www.texasarchive.org.
Other Houston films in the collection include the city’s first zebra being “broken” by Houston’s first zookeeper, oil fire footage, a Lion’s Club meeting, and material from the now defunct American Maid Flour Company. Additional communities represented include Freeport, Cuero and Galveston.
The NFPF preservation grants target newsreels, silent-era films, documentaries, culturally important home movies, avant-garde films, and endangered independent productions that fall under the radar of commercial preservation programs. The award will provide support to create a film preservation master and two access copies of each work. TAMI will provide access to the preserved films via the TAMI Video Library at www.texasarchive.org.
Since it was created by Congress in 1996, the NFPF has provided preservation support to 259 institutions and saved more than 1,850 films and collections through grants and collaborative projects. TAMI has received two previous awards to aid in preserving different versions of itinerant filmmaker Melton Barker’s The Kidnappers Foil.
For the complete list of projects supported by the NFPF, visit the NFPF Web site: www.filmpreservation.org.
TAMI’S DR. CAROLINE FRICK ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS
AUSTIN, Texas (October 26, 2011) – The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) announced the election of Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) Founder and Executive Director Dr. Caroline Frick to the office of President of the Board. Frick’s two-year term begins November 19, during the 2011 AMIA Conference in Austin.
In 2002, Frick founded the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a unique Austin-based institution providing digital access to vintage Texas films. TAMI’s partnership with the Texas Film Commission, the Texas Film Round-Up, was awarded the 2010 American Association for State and Local History’s Leadership in History Award of Merit and WOW Award. More information on the TAMI can be found at www.texasarchive.org.
Frick is also an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She recently served as the Curator of Motion Pictures for the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and has worked in film preservation at Warner Bros., the Library of Congress, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Her book, "Saving Cinema," was released last December by the Oxford University Press.
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is a non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials. This year’s AMIA Conference takes place November 16-19, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Austin. On Saturday, November 19th, AMIA will host a day of free public screenings at the Paramount Theatre beginning at 9am. For more information, go to www.amiaconference.com
