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Online Exhibits

Special collections of curated films, related to a particular subject, theme or personality, are selected and extensively researched, and are made available on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image website. These online exhibits encourage an exploration of both their Video Library and the TMIAP Collection to discover stories of Texas.

POWER: GLIMPSES OF BOOMTOWN TEXAS

TAMI's latest exhibit, "Power: Glimpses of Boomtown Texas"  forms not only a visual record of Texas oil operations but also a compelling examination of how the industry produces power beyond energy utility. For the state’s widespread oil and gas production also manifests considerable social power, national economic power, worldwide political power, and enduring cultural power. Power well suited for Hollywood entertainment, from Boom Town (1940) and Giant (1956) to AMC's television adaptation of The Son and, of course, back to Dallas.

Past Collections

  • Scenic Route: Discoveries in Texas Film & Video - A guided tour of highlights from the Texas Film Round-Up Program, hailing from Beaumont to El Paso, Brownsville to Amarillo, and countless places in between.

  • Broadcasting 1968 - With an emphasis on programming from Houston television stations KPRC and KHOU, the exhibit further uses so-called local news to complicate easy assumptions about city, state, nation, and world.

  • Starring the Lone Star State - Explore the history of filmmaking in Texas.