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Big Screen to return

The ‘big telly’ in Chamberlain square is to be taken down sometime this month, and planning discussions have been going on as to whether it would return. We now hear that it will, in Victoria square in “mid November”. In other news they plan to make it easier for Brummies to get their films on the new screen – by setting up a YouTube group so people can upload films or clips and then they’ll contact you if it’s a go-er to sort out the copyright and all that. More news and linky when it’s confirmed, but it’s a great way to widen the talent base from the more conventional avenues of getting stuff shown.

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You wait fifty odd years

And then you can watch blurry unsaturated footage of some buses on You Tube. Been scratching my head as to where the main vantage point for this was, but I can’t quite place it (some might be filmed from opposite where the Square Peg is now, maybe?).

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Proof that architects’ models are not very realistic

Designhive’s Snowhill Animation – George Jetson is moving to Colmore Row. Thanks D’log

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Cheeky Monkey TV

Web 2.0′s Martin Mullaney isn’t just ‘camcorder councilor’(© The Evening Mail), did you know he’s ‘camcorder comedy promoter’ too?. Martin runs the long established and very good Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club at The Station in King’s Heath, and he’s set up a YouTube channel to showcase it.

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