February has been an eventful month at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image!   We've received national press attention for the Melton Barker Collection and collected films for the Texas Film Round-Up free digitization program in Longview and Marshall.

Melton Barker was featured in the the New York Times and on WNYC's On the Media, broadcast on over 300 public radio stations in the United States. The Edmond Sun ran a story about Barker's Oklahoma exploits. Barker was featured in a number of blogs and websites throughout the month including:

• The Seventh Art
• The Candler Blog
• Busted History
• Hi-Fi Bri
• Cinema em Cena Blog (In Portuguese!)
• Perfect Duluth Day  
• Inquisitr
• BoingBoing
• The Orphan Film Symposium
• The Jet Fuel Review Blog
• Metafilter
• Classified Humanity
• Media Services News
• Heard it on NPR
• Proudly Resents

The Texas Film Round-Up began on February 17th in Marshall and Longview and continues through March 3rd. Read and watch the local coverage here:

• Real East Texas
• Red River Radio
• Longview News-Journal

Other news:

Scientific American featured TAMI's "NASA Space Monkey Training" video in their blog post "Macaque and Dagger in the Simian Space Race." 

TAMI's Executive Director and Founder Dr. Caroline Frick was interviewed in the Spring issue of the media journal The Velvet Light Trap. 

In January, TAMI lost one of our first contributors, Austin cinematographer Gordon Wilkison (1930-2013). Learn more about Wilkison and view a few of our favorite Wilkison films here.  You can also learn more about Wilkison in this article by The Daily Texan. 

Keep watching our News section for updates on events, collections, and more!