According to website- "The African American Home Movie Archive was created to serve as an online resource for researchers, educators, students, archive and library professionals, and other interested parties. The main feature of the website is the Black Home Movie Index, an aggregate of African American home movie collections from the early 1920s through the mid-1980s. Complete with collection names, scope and content, dates, links to online finding aids, video streaming links, and contact information for each participating institution, the virtual archive aims to serve as a liaison for African American home movie research by streamlining access to this information."