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Bull Ring Shopping Centre advert from 1985

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Birmingham Bullring Shopping Centre TV advert from 1985 (via Brumcast)

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…

Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham – in HD

i've just heard that Kojak's famous visit to town is being restored and cleaned up for HD and a showing on Sky Arts in December. Only five months until we can see the "multi-carriageway motorway" and dally in Dale End all future. More news as and when, until then enjoy the standard (or lower) definition version:

Frank's Blue Heaven

Frank Skinner's little seen sitcom — set very much in West Brom — is now all on You Tube, properly from Channel 4.

wevee is a site that a tempts to do something with the vast amount of old film — and there’s a lot of stuff of the Midlands on there. The interface is very slick — you can trim the ends of the clip and place them together on a timeline (very much like simple video editors such as iMovie) and there’s some audio to use too. I was quite disappointed that you couldn’t use the audio from one clip with the pictures from another — meaning you can’t do cut-aways, and that does mean that you can either swap from speech to music (a bit jarring) or drop to silence (or have music over everything). I was enjoying cutting the “modern city” stuff with shots of riots and demolition, and wanted to mix it up that little bit more than the site would let me. At the moment it’s difficult to see how just uploading the archive films to YouTube wouldn’t achieve wider exposure — the editing isn’t really enough, however well the interface is designed, to drag people in. Maybe people sharing stuff might help — but apart from encouraging a little bit of creativity alongside the viewing,...

KateGoes Sock Crazy

KateGoes have released their first single “All We Wanna Do Is OH’ which is a sharp slice of bouncy pop. All very well, but what’s especially nice is that they’d like you to make sock puppet monkeys to “star” in the video. Remember to write your name and email address on a bit of card, in with the monkey. The deadline for submitting your monkeys is JANUARY 31st 2010, and here’s the address: FILM FICCIONES 31 MAYFIELD ROAD MOSELEY BIRMINGHAM B13 9HJ UNITED KINGDOM

The horror of an integrated wayfinding system

If you’re interested (as I am) in “a project to show how digital technology could be employed to make it easier to get round Birmingham. Involving a consortium of partners, including the council’s Digital Birmingham partnership, Coventry University Enterprises, Microsoft and Virtual Earth developer Shoothill” then watch this video: If you don’t care so much, just listen to the voiceover at the start.Fantastically, it’s like the start of a poor horror film. Fancy making it so? I’ve had a quick knock by using this film (apologies to the originators of both).

A series to cut out and keep, courtesy of the Birmingham Music Archive — the place celebrating, preserving, and sharing Birmingham’s music heritage. This piece from Paul Long, and you’re welcome to contribute or argue the toss. Don’t forget they’re looking for Brum’s bestest ever gig too. Band: Felt Record: Primitive Painters (Cherry Red, August 1985) Felt were one of the bands whose records and approach to pop defined the independent recording sector in the 1980s and, to some degree, aspects of an ‘alternative’ musical sphere. They were beloved of delicate women and effete young men for whom The Smiths, for instance, were just a litle too rough (rather like most Mancunian bands who fancy themselves as ‘arty’). In their ambition and vision, Felt made Morrissey’s pretentions look like those of a shopfitter from Salford.

Birmingham – Reputation Vs. Reality

A documentary from Sarah Blythe about "how Britain's second city has struggled to shake off its outdated image."

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