Tim Ellis, Creative Director and Kerry Mawby, Media Technical Assistant, visited MACE (Media Archive for Central England) to view archive footage they hope to use in a project.

The visit was part of Hybrid Arts’s ‘Extraordinary Cycles’ film element, which involves getting young people to mash up archive footage along with new footage. Some of these sessions will take place at Coventry Transport Museum’s ‘Festival of Cycling’, taking place in June half term, and culminating in a public screening of the work on Saturday 5th June. Funding for the project is provided by Screen West Midlands.

Ellis said of the visit: “It was a very interesting experience seeing vintage film equipment still in use. Richard Shenton talked us through the process of transferring archive material from original film stock into a digital format, which we are planning to use in our digital editing sessions.”