ARCHIVES
The Pete Diaz Jr. Collection
In 2016, C. took on a personal archival project to digitize and preserve the home movies shot by their paternal grandfather, Pete Diaz Jr. These 31 reels were inspected, cleaned, scanned, color remastered, and digitally preserved by C.
[31] reels of color Super 8mm, some with magnetic audio.
1970-75
In 2016, C. took on a personal archival project to digitize and preserve the home movies shot by their paternal grandfather, Pete Diaz Jr. These 31 reels were inspected, cleaned, scanned, color remastered, and digitally preserved by C.
[31] reels of color Super 8mm, some with magnetic audio.
1970-75
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La Vida Fronteriza: Home movies from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
In South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley is not a valley at all but a delta floodplain whose identity hinges on its melding of two countries: the United States and Mexico. This session is about the importance of archiving home movies from this region. Díaz uses clips sourced from the RGV home movie collection at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to lead up to their own personal Super 8mm archival project, The Pete Diaz Jr. Collection.
Pete Diaz Jr. was an entrepreneur and visionary from Rio Grande City, Texas with a passion for photography. He documented and archived his life through photography and home movies--perhaps he knew that the archiving of daily life, events both big and small, would be important for the future representation of his community.
Díaz presents a case study detailing their process of acquiring, cleaning, scanning, color and audio remastering, and archiving this collection and the importance of preserving these personal histories for generations to come.
This presentation was created for the AMIA 2021 Spring Conference Borders and Borderlands: Conversations and Documentation Program.
Thank you to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image for access to various home movies from across the RGV, The Portal to Texas History, and the Diaz family: Ramona Diaz, Mary Recio, Belinda Diaz, Pete Diaz III, Hiram Diaz, Aaron Diaz & Monica Diaz.
Boca Chica, Corazón Grande
Pete Diaz Jr. was an entrepreneur and visionary from Rio Grande City, Texas with a passion for photography. He documented and archived his life through photography and home movies--perhaps he knew that the archiving of daily life, events both big and small, would be important for the future representation of his community.
Díaz presents a case study detailing their process of acquiring, cleaning, scanning, color and audio remastering, and archiving this collection and the importance of preserving these personal histories for generations to come.
This presentation was created for the AMIA 2021 Spring Conference Borders and Borderlands: Conversations and Documentation Program.
Thank you to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image for access to various home movies from across the RGV, The Portal to Texas History, and the Diaz family: Ramona Diaz, Mary Recio, Belinda Diaz, Pete Diaz III, Hiram Diaz, Aaron Diaz & Monica Diaz.
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Boca Chica, Corazón Grande
Boca Chica, Corazón Grande is a community archival project focused on collecting and documenting the history and geography of Boca Chica Beach. This collaborative initiative uses the power of memory, storytelling, and archiving to preserve and celebrate the cultural richness of our communities and land.
This project launched in October 2021 in collaboration with Mónica Sosa of Flower Friends. ENTRE and Flower Friends are working together to hold an open call for materials (home movies, photographs, documentation) centered on Boca Chica Beach. These materials will be digitized and catalogued in ENTRE’s archive. Eventually, these materials will be made accessible to the public through a free online database, traveling exhibitions and conferences, and through partnership with other local and global archives and cultural institutions.
For more information on Boca Chica, Corazón Grande, write us at entrefilmcenter@gmail.com
This project launched in October 2021 in collaboration with Mónica Sosa of Flower Friends. ENTRE and Flower Friends are working together to hold an open call for materials (home movies, photographs, documentation) centered on Boca Chica Beach. These materials will be digitized and catalogued in ENTRE’s archive. Eventually, these materials will be made accessible to the public through a free online database, traveling exhibitions and conferences, and through partnership with other local and global archives and cultural institutions.
For more information on Boca Chica, Corazón Grande, write us at entrefilmcenter@gmail.com