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How they used to vote
30th April 2010. Posted by Sam Dowling.
With a week to go until polling day, and candidates going head to head on television screens across the country, historic election footage from the West Midlands has been brought to life online.
From today, visitors to the new web-based tool WeVee will be able to view and edit archive television clips from across the West Midlands, including Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Stechford in 1977, Anthony Eden arriving for the Warwick and Leamington by-election in 1968 and an interview with the Indian immigrant who stood as an independent candidate against Enoch Powell for Wolverhampton South West in 1971. There’s also a chance to hear some revealing children’s comments about politics during the run-up to the 1964 election.
WeVee’s free web-based experience enables users to view and edit clips from the region’s rich collection of film and video archives, edit them to music and create their own mash-ups to share and swap online through social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter.
The election footage joins a diverse range of clips already on the site dating back to 1901 including previously unseen material from Cadbury’s, The Staffordshire Film Archive, The Midlands Archive for Central England and Vivid. There’s animation as well as documentary clips. WeVee has been developed by Birmingham based In Cahoots, the digital division of Television Junction, and digital agency, Clusta, with support from Screen West Midlands’ Digital Film Archive Fund.
Rebecca Cadwallader, Creative Producer at In Cahoots said:
“Over the past few weeks the live televised debates have got the whole country talking about the General Election and the main candidates like never before. People are really thinking carefully about how they might vote this time around with the prospect of a hung parliament.”
“By opening up historic election footage and giving people the tools to re-mix this for themselves, WeVee is providing an enjoyable way for a whole new online audience to look back at how we used to vote. It’s a chance to compare today’s candidates and manifestos with the past.”