News from Media Archive for Central England (MACE)

MACE release From 'ATVLand' in Colour - Monday 19 September 2011 From 'ATVLand' in Colour - The History of the ATV Centre - the Most Advanced Studios of Its Time. On Monday 19th September, MACE released From 'ATVLand' in Colour, the first of ten DVDs which, in different ways, will capture the history of the region READ MORE» Search Your Film Archives is Launched Thanks to the Screen Heritage UK Programme, visitors to MACE's website at www.macearchive.org can now use our ADVANCED SEARCH page to browse not only our online catalogue but the collections of the BFI and 9 other regional film archives across the UK. This new search tool is called SEARCH YOUR FILM ARCHIVES READ MORE» Titles from MACE's Collections to feature in BBC's new Reel History of Britain Series  Look out for titles from MACE's collection in Reel History of Britain which started on Monday 5th September at 6:30pm on BBC2. In this brand new 20-part series for BBC Two Daytime, Melvyn Bragg retells the fascinating stories of life in Britain from 1900 to 1970 through the archive collections of the British Film Institute and regional archives across the UK, including MACE READ MORE»

About MACE MACE is the screen archive for the Midlands. We provide opportunities for everyone to connect with the culture and history of the Midlands as reflected in film, videotape and digital moving images from 1896 (the birth of film) to the present day. We do that mostly by collecting, researching, preserving and making available to you what is a truly remarkable body of material. To browse our catalogue, visit our website www.macearchive.org. Media Archive for Central England MHT Building University of Lincoln Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS Tel: 0116 252 5066/Sales: 0116 252 5062 Email: macearchive@le.ac.uk Company No. 3172021 | Charity No. 1100890

Staffordshire Daily Photo Blog

Revd Mark Hathorne, husband of local author Carol Hathorne has his own blog - a new photo each day. Some Staffordshire, some Black Country images. It is well worth a visit.

The 'Staffordshire Daily Photo' (part of the international City Daily Photo family) blog-site has been successfully launched, and has now over sixty postings, going back to April.

Here is the link: http://staffordshiredailyphoto.blogspot.com/

Black Country Cinemas / Black Country Theatres - book launches

Ned Williams two latest books are at the printers and I can tell you about them and the exciting plans being made to launch them on Saturday 29^th October.

Both books are A4 sized hardbacks. The Cinemas book runs to 312 pages and the Theatres book runs to 208. They are both well-illustrated and have attractive colour covers. They will be available as a limited edition and the first 500 copies of each will be signed and numbered. I am delighted to tell you that Ken Dodd agreed to write a foreword to the theatres book, and Julie Walters has written one for the Cinemas book.

They will both be on sale at £25 each. At the launch they will be available at a special offer of £40 the pair.

We would like you to collect books at one of the launch events because they are large books and the Post Office has advised me that the postage is fairly expensive. (£4.50 for one book, £7.50. for two books.) 

The events planned for Saturday 29^th October are as follows:

Spend a morning at the Black Country’s only surviving professional live theatre!

10.30.am onwards: At The Grand Theatre, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1DE.

• 10.45.am. Guided tours of the theatre available, provided by theatre staff. (They have to be booked and there is a charge of £2 – payble to the theatre.)
• At 11.30.am  the book will be formally “launched”.
• Admission to the launch is free. Refreshments will be available.

An Evening of Film and Live Variety to Celebrate the launch of the two new books.

Come and join the author at this sociable and enjoyable event which includes a glass of wine and a meal!

7.30.pm at The Imperial Banqueting Suite, Lichfield Street, Bilston. WV14 0AN

(Formerly Woods Palace/the Odeon cinema – parking in Bow Street, behind the venue.)

• Admission to the event costs £10 – and includes entertainment, a glass of wine and an Indian meal. (You can book a table for eight or ten if you want to make a party of it! Ten seats for the price of 9!)
• The books will be available at this event and each ticket can be used as a voucher worth £5 against the cover price of any book – a range of recent local history publications will be available.
• We really look forward to your company at what will be a unique event!

If you want to order books, reserve a tour of The Grand, or book tickets for the Celebration event on Saturday night, or have any queries, please make contact by phone (sometimes leave a message) or by email.

Telephone: Ned: 01902 773376, Terri: 0121 550 5943    Email: nedwilliams@toucansurf.com.

23 Westland Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 9NZ. Or see website: www.nedwilliams.co.uk

P.S. Two other events are planned: Thursday 10^th November, 2.00pm. The Venue, Dudley: (formerly The

Regent/Gaumont cinema): Afternoon tea and a presentation on “An Afternoon at the Movies – in the Good
Old Days!” and also on Tuesday 15^th November at 6.00pm: at the Light House, Wolverhampton: a
presentation on local theatres and cinemas – and the new book!