Video History Project

Chronology

American Film Institute

Date
1984

The National Center for Film and Video Preservation is established by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Its mission includes The Film Foundation, The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project which centralizes information on the film and television holdings of American archives and producers, and has assisted many organizations with the cataloging of film and video collections.

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"American Film Institute." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/american-film-institute-1.

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The National Center for Film and Video Preservation was established by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts; its mission includes The Film Foundation, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project. NAMID centralizes information on the film and television holdings of American archives and producers; the Center has assisted many organizations with the cataloging of film and video collections.

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