In March, I wrote about an event that the non-profit Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) was having at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston: MATCH "Tonight at 7" Houston Television From The Archive.
Well, here is the video from that event. It was a very informative and entertaining video presentation!
I was in attendance and got to talk with the likes of Phil Archer, Bob Martin, "The Accountant to the Stars," and Mister McKinney's Historic Houston!
This showcase of Space City television highlights from 1961 to 2004. This exclusive program presents content from TAMI's extensive KPRC 2 and KHOU 11 collections.
Witness the best news, weather, sports stories, award-winning specials, and behind-the-scenes features.
This program features footage contributed by KPRC, Austin History Center, Houston History Research Center at the Houston Public Library, Travis Boles, Steve Candelari, Paul and Elizabeth Nelson, Lois Perucca, Kenny Ryman, and Larry Weidman.
TAMI is digitizing tens of thousands of KPRC's films and videos. By the late 1960s, the station produced approximately 700 hours of content annually and maintained that rate for the next 40 years.
That equals roughly 28,000 hours of footage for our small team to inventory, digitize, and catalog.
TAMI estimates local Texas stations collectively produced at least 3,000 years of content in the pre-digital era.
An estimated 72,000 items in the KPRC Collection remain undigitized. This multi-million-dollar endeavor could take more than 40 years to complete.
