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Region’s Historic Archive Brought To Life Online
21st January 2010. Posted by Sam Dowling.
The history of the West Midlands is being brought to life online with an innovative new archive project.
Launched today (Thursday 21 January), WeVee is a new web-based experience which 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.
Footage includes previously unseen material from Cadbury’s, The Staffordshire Film Archive, The Midlands Archive for Central England and Vivid. The archive dates from 1901 right up to the present day and includes footage from the 1953 Queen’s Coronation.
WeVee has been developed by Birmingham based production company Television Junction and digital agency, Clusta, with support from Screen West Midlands’ Digital Film Archive Fund.
Rebecca Cadwallader, Digital Development Producer at Television Junction said:
WeVee uses the latest digital technology to explore the region's history. Thanks to the generosity of archive holders you can now watch film and video clips online to be part of our region's heritage as you interact with them to make your own short edits to music. Finished clips can be posted online through social networking sites such as Facebook. WeVee has been designed to be fun and easy to use. By setting up a free account users can create, save, edit and share moving images from the past.”
“WeVee gives users the chance to consider their history and where they have come from, whilst saying something unique about themselves, their home and locality and referencing past events that have meaning to their life today. Finished clips can be posted online through social networking sites such as Facebook, to encourage friends and family to comment and share their experiences.”
Yvonne Davies, co-MD Television Junction said:
‘This is a really exciting day for us – the chance to bring film of the region’s history to as many people as can log on and WeVee.
‘Screen West Midlands and the Digital Film Archive Fund have had the imagination to invest in an online tool which will now provide access to the region’s film and video archive for huge numbers of people.’
‘This is the history about the little people as well as some of the region’s big events. It’s the detail of the everyday struggles, the highs and lows that makes our region what it is.’
To play and create your WeVee, visit www.Wevee.co.uk.