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Derby QUAD and Picture the Past team up to ask for your Derbyshire Photos – Fri 10th May, 1pm, QUAD, Derby

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Want to take part in archiving history?

Our friends at QUAD and Picture the Past are running an event before our Derby Families on Film screening at the  QUAD from 1pm on tomorrow (Friday 10th)

Are you from Derbyshire and an avid photo album creator?

If you have Derbyshire based photos (5 years or older) then bring them along to the 2nd floor in QUAD on Friday from 1pm and you can add copies of them to the Derbyshire county archive for future generations to look at. The photograph/s will be scanned at the event and you will keep the original.

An archivist will be in QUAD to talk to you about the history of your photos and how your image can help future generations understand more about Derbyshire family life. You’ll also be able to speak to a Picture The Past archivist about their existing collection.

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Following this event, Phil Leach, MACE’s Curator: Programming & Research will introduce a screening of Derbyshire films with a family theme.  Beginning with local maternity hospitals, when most of the population were born in either the Nightingale or Queen Mary homes, the screening will trace everyday Derby life through school years, including memories of those school dinners, to the time when young people had to choose a career and then to local weddings and a look at ordinary family life. With films ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s, shot by both amateur film-makers and professionals, the screening will give a slice of social history for anyone who has ever lived in Derby.

The Event has a Facebook Page HERE

This event and the screening are part of Derby QUAD’s ID Fest which starts tomorrow. Read more on their website here or following them on twitter @ID_Fest

I also blogged about the Festival HERE.

Three MACE DVDs featuring on ITV News Central this week

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Andy Bevan, reporter on ITV News Central is  doing three reports on the Midlands on Film DVD collection this week. Each report will cover a different DVD and will be shown on ITV Central Region at 6pm. 

Made in Leicester has featured on tonight’s programme, Rebuilding Coventry will feature tomorrow and we believe that Regenerating Birmingham will feature on Thursday.

We hope you can all tune in!

Purchasing DVDs 

You can purchase any of the DVDs from the Midlands on film collection securely on our website HERE or phone us on 01522 837750. They are £14.99 +£1.50 p&p each, apart from FOCAL Award nominated Nottingham on Film which, as a 2 disc compilation, is £16.99 + £1.50 p&p.

If you prefer to send a cheque, please make the amount payable to Media Archive for Central England and send with a covering note with your address details and the DVD you wish to buy to Media Archive for Central England, University of Lincoln, MHT Building, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS

MACE & ATVLAND.productions win at FOCAL Awards

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ATVLAND.productions’ affectionate look back at the regional news magazine programme ATV Today, produced for MACE using 150 short films, has won Best Use of Footage in a Home Entertainment Release at this year’s FOCAL International Awards.

From Headlines to Tight-Lines – The Story of ATV Today celebrates the 15 years it ran from 1964 to 1981 with a wealth of newly digitised footage and new exclusive interviews with reporters and crew who worked on the programme.

I’m pictured below with ATVLAND’s Peter Raven and Stephen Thwaites at the gala ceremony last night.

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Making the DVD has been a labour of love for us all and I’d especially like to thank Peter Raven, Stephen Thwaites and Lee Bannister for producing such a well structured, entertaining and at times poignant documentary for MACE on a budget of zero!

I’d also like to thank ITV for being so supportive in allowing MACE to use the ITV footage which is preserved at MACE in this DVD.

A big thanks to all the interviewees who gave their free time to share their memories of ATV Today on camera.

From Headlines to Tight-Lines is available to buy from our secure webshop HERE

‘Derby Families on Film’ to be screened at Derby Quad’s ID Festival – Fri 10th May, 2pm

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Derby Quad’s annual ID Festival which explores ‘Identity Through Film’ commences next Thursday 9th May and MACE are contributing with a programmed screening presented by MACE’s Phil Leach, Derby Families on Film.

The festival which runs until Sunday May 12th will have a wealth of guest appearances, panel discussions and screenings exploring the theme of ‘Family’.

It includes live appearances from Terry Jones (Monty Python, Wind In The Willows), Dame Janet Suzman (Nicolas And Alexandria, The Draughtsman’s Contract), Martin Stephens (The Innocents, Village Of The Damned), Jack O’Connell (Skins, Tower Block) and a panel of some of Britain’s leading independent feature film directors Paul Andrew Williams, Jake West, Johannes Roberts and Dominic Burns.

Derby Families on Film will be screened on Friday 10th May at 2pm at Quad in Derby.

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To purchase tickets online CLICK HERE

To read more about the ID Festival and the full programme of events CLICK HERE.

The Derby Telegraph has also written about the festival HERE.

‘Made in Birmingham: Reggae Punk Bhangra’ to be screened at Barber Institute, Sun 12 May,2pm

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Swish Films’  MADE IN BIRMINGHAM Reggae Punk Bhangra will be showing at the  Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham on Sunday May 12, 2pm.

In this film, directed by Deborah Aston and exec. produced by Jez Collins and Roger Shannon, Reggae, Punk and Bhangra musicians from Birmingham discuss their distinctive musical styles & influences and reflect on how music has played its own role in fostering a new sense of collective identity in the city.

In this special screening, Deborah, Jez and Roger will take questions from the audience following the screening…and there’s coffee and cake!

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The film explores the social, political and cultural issues that gave rise to music emanating from the city using archive footage, much of which was sourced from MACE in 2010,  as well as beautifully framed new interviews, to provide an insight into the city and its music.

It includes  interviews and archive footage from: Brian Travers (UB40) Dennis Seaton (Musical Youth) Amlak Tafari (Steel Pulse), Pete Hammond and Paul Foad (Au Pairs) Pete Hyde (Spizz Energi) Paul Panic (The Accused) Janice Connolly and Conrad Swartz (The Ever Readies, The Surprises) Alan Apperley (The Prefects, The Nightingales) S-Endz (Swami) Vix (Fuzzbox) Dee Johnson (UB 40 and Simply Red) and archives include Patti Bell, the fashion designer who styled Duran Duran videos, Ranking Roger (The Beat) David Hines (Steel Pulse) Kevin Rowland (The Killjoys, Dexys Midnight Runners), Pogus Caesar from Oom Gallery, Ammo Talwar from Punch Records, Boy Chana, Anachak and Apna Sangeeta.

These recollections are juxtaposed with some rarely seen archive to share with new audiences some of the unsung heroes and the more familiar talent which the city has to offer.

The film has been screened across the world in the US, Canada, Greece, Brazil etc; as well as at many Film Festivals,including Flatpack, Borderlines, London; and Music events such as Sound City Liverpool, and SxSW in Austin, Texas. The Royal Television Society specially commended the film on the back of its two RTS nominations for best documentary and for best new talent, for Deborah Aston as director.

TICKET INFORMATION

Price: £5

To book by telephone: 0121 414 2261
To book by email contact education@barber.org.uk

Sat 6th April: The Grand Pavilion in Matlock Bath appeals for Matlock Bath memories

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Local landmark the Grand Pavilion in Matlock Bath is appealing to the public to bring pictures and documents featuring the building or the village to a special Open Day tomorrow for copying.

The Grand Pavillion, in Matlock Bath

The Grand Pavillion in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire

Heritage team member Laura Smith explains: “We’re asking people who have photos, postcards or documents relating to the history of the Pavilion in their albums, cupboards or attics to bring them along on Saturday 6th April, between 11am and 4pm. We will have scanners ready to make accurate copies, so people don’t need to leave anything with us.” The day of scanning and copying at the Pavilion will help the heritage team gain a better understanding of the history of the building and its surroundings. Historical materials can take other forms too: “We would also be very interested if anyone has cine films or videos of the Grand Pavilion or Matlock Bath in general.”, Smith confirms.

Anyone with documents and photographs relating to the Pavilion or Matlock Bath should bring them along to the Open Day on April 6th, when they will be safely copied and returned to their owner. Cine films and videos will not be able to be copied on the day as this is a longer process that requires specialist equipment and trained technical staff, but if you do have films or tape of the town, staff at the Pavilion will be able to contact our team at MACE to discuss the films and videos that have been brought in with a view to them possibly being deposited at MACE and copied in the future.

Newly Discovered Films of the First Bluebird-Proteus CN7 to feature in ‘Donald Campbell: Speed King’ Tonight, BBC2 8pm

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Extracts from a series of recently discovered 16mm films which document the construction of the original Bluebird-Proteus CN7 in 1960 will be shown on Tern TV’s documentary on Donald Campbell tonight at 8pm on BBC2. The programme is called Donald Campbell: Speed King.

The footage, which was found in a cupboard at ’Body In White’ suppliers  Stadco Ltd in Coventry  last year,  has been digitised by MACE and the original material is now preserved in our temperature controlled archive store.

The discovered reel is made up of a series of short 16mm colour mute films which document the construction in stages, from the building of the chassis to the body work, including the hand-painting of the Bluebird’s flag emblem, vehicle testing and shots of Donald Campbell trying out the cockpit.

This version of the CN7 was built by Motor Panels (Coventry) Ltd in 1960 but Campbell’s attempt at breaking the record at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA ended with the CN7 crashing at high speed on 16 September 1960. The vehicle was written off. The 16mm films we hold do not include footage of the failed attempt itself, but they do include films of the team preparing before the attempt on the salt flats, and shots of the vehicle in the crash aftermath.

The CN7 was  subsequently rebuilt by Motor Panels with design enhancements and went on to break the record in Australia on July 17th, 1964.

 These colour films are of great quality and piece together the construction in great detail. We don’t know at this stage if the material has been seen by a wide audience before. The films that were found were un-cut negatives, but other prints may have been used at the time and have perhaps been used in documentaries since.

We will blog about the films again in the future and upload extracts onto our website. Meanwhile, we hope you will enjoy the clips that are included in tonight’s programme.

MACE would like to say a special thanks to Stadco Ltd for providing us with permission to supply clips to Tern TV.