TONIGHT from 7pm!! Come Celebrate Black History Month with @MACEarchive’s Full Circle Project and @The_Drum, Aston with a special screening of archive film and Philip Donnellan’s Controversial Film: The Colony, Bring along any old cine-films!!


Tonight, Wednesday 12th October, The Colony at The Drum

Controversial at the time of its original broadcast, this is a powerful film which explores the lives of Caribbean migrant communities living in Birmingham and the Midlands. Including interviews with Stan Crooke a railway signal man from St Kitts living in Balsall Heath and Bernice Smith a Jamaican teacher working at St James’ Primary School in Handsworth. This screening compliments the launch of the BBC’s ‘Reel History of Britain’ featuring Melvyn Bragg.

by Philip Donnellan

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The Drum are helping our Full Circle Film Search by looking for home-movies, or old cinefilm shot by your relatives that relate to your local area! http://www.the-drum.org.uk/news/full-circle/

MACE’s Full Circle Project pairs up with The Drum to search for home-movies

If you have any old cinefilm or  home-movies relating to the Birmingham, Aston and wider Midlands area and are not sure what to do with them… Bring them along to The Drum this evening and speak to myself, Full Circle Project Curator – Lucie Kerley – email:lkerley@lincoln.ac.uk or call: 07919 896505 if you are interested in hearing about the possibility of digitising this material in order to make it accessible and preserve it for future generations.

http://www.macearchive.org

http://www.macearchive.org/Full-Circle.html – For more information please check out.

See you there!!

Midlands News: 17.02.1958: Second birthday of ATV


As we’re celebrating our tenth birthday this week it seems only right that we look back at ATV’s birthday, the ITV regional collection forming a part of MACE’s collection. 

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In today’s clip we see the second birthday of ATV at the Television Theatre in Aston. There are various people present, include Norman Collins, one of the major figures behind the establishment of ITV.

It seems apt that ATV’s birthday, on the 17th February, is only 3 days after ours!

Who is the lady cutting the cake? Can you tell us who some of the other party goers are?