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Free film, videotape digitization program comes to Seguin Texas Film Round-Up scheduled for Oct. 10 Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Those old videotapes or reels of film gathering dust in your attic could soon become part of the Lone Star State’s living history. The Seguin Public Library will soon become a stop on the statewide Texas Film Round-Up, giving residents a chance to preserve and share their moving image history. The program, organized by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) in partnership with the Texas Film Commission, is set for Friday, Oct. 10. However, two weeks before Oct. 10, individuals, families, and organizations here in Seguin will be encouraged to bring in films or videotapes that TAMI will digitize at no cost. Participants will receive back both their original media and a digital copy, while TAMI retains a digital version for its growing archive of Texas history. Explaining this effort is TAMI Managing Director Elizabeth Hansen. Hansen says the
effort both preserves private collections and expands the state’s historical record. “If you have a home movie or a student film or an advertisement for a family business, you can bring them to us and we will digitize them for free and then part of that is we are building this collection of Texas related materials that can be used for research and education. So, we have had more than 3,000 Texans participate in the program and we’ve had hundreds of organizations participate and we have digitized more than 50,000 videos through the project over the years,” said Hansen. She added that many people don’t realize how fragile old film and videotapes can be compared to paper documents. “Films and videotapes are actually quite expensive to transfer, and they are way more at risk than paper documents. So, you can have a piece of paperwork say like Film, pg. 3