Posts Tagged ‘ MACE ’

King Bong* — King Kong on the News

Get the Flash Player to see this content. From MACE: “Tony Maycock interview with Mike Shanley, Birmingham garage owner, who has bought the statue of King Kong to stand it in his car sales forecourt.” a clip of ATV Today 18/09/1972 Remarkably hash tone for such a fluffy news item ‘doesn’t King Kong Kars sound a bit crap’? I’m paraphrasing. *okay it’s ATV Today, and not News At Ten. This is Trevor McDoughnut…

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Bull in the Bull Ring, almost

The Ikon reminded us on Twitter today about MACE — that’s the Media Archive for Central England. They mentioned a Bull going mad in Digbeth, and as luck would have it here it is running amok: Get the Flash Player to see this content. Sadly even then, Digbeth didn’t have any china shops for it.

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And you thought Midlands Today was exciting

More video gold, in monochrome, from MACE. From 1957, entitled simply “Lord Mayor sees biggest tyre in the country”: Get the Flash Player to see this content. It’s a whopper, and Lord Mayor Ernest William Apps is rightly impressed. They don’t make them like that anyone, well they do but not at Fort Dunlop.

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It’s fun to play at the M A C E

I’ve recently stumbled upon MACE — that’s the Media Archive for Central England — a government funded body that archives ” moving images held on film, video, DVD or any other carrier that relate in some way to the Midlands”. While I doubt they’ve got every episode of Boon on VHS, they do have some of the collection online, and I’ve been investigating the Brum stuff. Cue a newsreel from 1956 and a very patronising guy tells us why knocking things down is good: Get the Flash Player to see this content. And this is Blues and Albion training, from 1957 – it  once included “shots of Wolverhampton Wanderers players training but these have been removed”. And a good job too, I say. Get the Flash Player to see this content. I’ll keep digging through and post some more stuff, what’s really facinating is what they’ve got that isn’t online (yet, i hope): “a traditional ‘trussing the cooper’ ceremony for a new apprentice at the Atkinson Brewery in Birmingham.”, the “Lord Mayor sees biggest tyre in the country at Dunlop” . Brilliant.

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