Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants

Period of Performance

9/1/2020 - 6/30/2021

Funding Totals

$10,000.00 (approved)
$6,115.00 (awarded)


Purchase of Audio and Film Preservation Supplies for the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound Film Collection

FAIN: PG-271696-20

Friends of the Knox County Public Library (Knoxville, TN 37902-2505)
Eric Dawson (Project Director: January 2020 to present)

The purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse audiovisual materials in the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound at the Calvin C. McClung Historical Collection in Knoxville. The collection contains more than 10,000 reels of film and videotapes of documentaries, feature films, commercials, home movies, and news film relating to East Tennessee and the Southern Appalachian region from 1915 to 2000. In addition, an audio collection of over 700 unique acetate and transcription discs document the region’s musicians and radio history from the 1940s through the 1960s. Among the sub-collections that would be the focus of this project are silent home movies filmed by American soldier Alex T. Langston in France and Germany during the days following the end of World War II, home movies and travelogues by Tennessee Valley Authority employee and photographer Paul Moore, demo recordings by local country music and jazz musicians, and films produced by the Tennessee School for The Deaf.

The purchase of archival film cans, film cores, molecular sieves, record envelopes, and boxes for the preservation of many of TAMIS's most in-peril collections.





Associated Products

Archival storage supplies (Equipment)
Name: Archival storage supplies
Description: 325 x Archival 3" film cores 87 x Archival 8mm Film Reel and Can set 296 x Archival 16mm cans 400' each 10 x Archival 16mm cans 800' each 19 x Archival 16mm cans 2000' each 500 x Archival 10pt Folder Stock 10" LP Record Envelopes 250 x Archival 10pt Folder Stock 17" LP Record Envelopes 25 x Archival Flip-Top 10" LP Record Boxes 12 x Archival Flip-Top 16" LP Record Boxes 3 x Kodak molecular sieves 120 count 12.5 gram packets
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Year: 2020