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Media Archive for Central England (MACE) - The Collection

The Media Archive for Central England (MACE) is an independent charitable organisation established in 2001. MACE is the recognised body responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible the moving image heritage of the East and West Midlands. The archive has responsibility for covering the large geographical area of the East and West Midlands regions, including the counties of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. The archive's offices are based at the University of Lincoln.

MACE houses approximately 25 thousand film and video items relating to the East and West Midlands regions. The collection currently includes examples of early local topical newsreel film, amateur film, company advertising and training films, government information films, artists’ video and documentary collections. MACE has also acquired the ITV Midlands regional collection comprising of film and video inserts from the regional news from 1956 to 1990 and regional programmes from the same period.

Some examples from the MACE collection include:

‘The Meet of the Quorn Hounds' (1912)
local newsreel film depicting hunt participants and their entourage gathering at Kirby Gate. The film also includes an agricultural show and crowds at a carnival in Melton Mowbray
'The Grassy Shires' (1944)
a government propaganda film focusing on agriculture and the rural landscape of the East Midlands in war-time
'To Build an Island's Future' (1954)
a promotional film for Brush Bagnall Traction company, highlighting their sale of diesel locomotives to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)
‘Trent Side Story’ (1963)
a film made by the Nottingham Co-operative Society for its centenary, showing scenes around the city and in the large Nottingham Co-op department store, along with a social history of the city and the co-operative movement
'Co-operation' (1972)
a dramatised training film made for the Co-operative Society
'Sat'day' (1999)
a short drama about a young boy’s coming of age revolving around the relationship between a strict father and his angst-ridden son

Vist the MACE website to search their database and discover more of their collection.

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