The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is an independent 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2002 by film archivist and University of Texas at Austin professor Caroline Frick Page, PhD.[1] TAMI's mission is to preserve, study, and exhibit Texas film heritage. The organization has three main projects: the TAMI Video Library, the Texas Film Round-Up, and Teach Texas. Its offices are located in Austin, Texas.[2]
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The TAMI Video Library is a streaming video website that includes a variety of Texas-related films such as home movies, industrial films, local television, and other orphan film materials. The TAMI Video Library was launched in 2008 using Glifos Social Media and the MediaWiki platform. The oldest films in the archive are a collection of Edison Studios films from the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. The TAMI Library includes several curated collections with topics that include President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family, Texas during the Vietnam War years, life across Texas during the 1930s and 1940s, and itinerant films.[3] The Library also contains some unusual material produced by Texas television stations in the latter half of the 20th century.[4][5]
The Texas Film Round-Up, also known as the Texas Moving Image Archive Program, is a partnership between TAMI and the Office of the Governor’s Texas Film Commission.[6] Via the Round-Up, TAMI provides free digitization for Texas-related films and videos in exchange for the donation of a digital copy of the material to the TAMI Video Library.[7] Film screenings and educational exhibits about Texas media history are often part of the Round-Up activities. The Film Round-up has visited the Rio Grande Valley, Tyler, Lubbock, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, and Austin since its inception in 2008.[8][9][10][11][12]
Teach Texas is a resource kit for educators that includes lesson plans and other materials that enable teachers to use films from the TAMI Video Library in the K-12 classroom. The resources in the Teach Texas program are coordinated with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.[13]
The Texas Film Round-Up received two awards from the American Association for State and Local History in 2010: the Leadership in History Award of Merit, and the WOW Award.[14]
Official website of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image