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the production of a video magazine format much of this material was archived” Now the almost 400 hours of local material of Essex based activities, features and interviews has been donated to the Essex County Records Office who moved into a brand new multi-million pound purpose built building alongside the Chelmer Canal in Chelmsford, to form the first donation for their new Video Archive project.
Hidden gems amongst the material awaiting future researchers viewing the ETV archive is scenes from Thaxted of a Morris dance only performed once a year, Old Essex Barges sailing off Harwich and Southend, Brentwood school children singing Christmas carols in a Navestock farmyard and a trip up the Thames on an old Port of London Tug. And slightly more up to date the reactions of Brentwood high street shoppers to the eclipse of the Sun.
Said Mr. Curtis. “ETV is very pleased to have made this donation, as we hope it will allow social historians to see how we in Essex lived at the Beginning of the new millennium. Though our various programme items,” he went on, “they will be able to look back on us at work, play and rest in much the same way as see now ourselves look back at those shaky old black and white newsreel films at the turn of the last century.”
ETV, have donated their archive programme library to the Counties Record Office.
The Brentwood based group of volunteers, who for over 20 years have provided programmes for six South Essex Hospitals, including three in the Brentwood area, already donate copies of Essex in Vision, it’s bi-monthly Video magazine, so said group chairman Fred Curtis, “it seemed like the natural thing to do.” But he went on, “In our 20 years of operation we produced 98 four hour programme video tapes which were seen by patients in local hospitals,” said Mr. Curtis. “but now that we have gone over to
The Brentwood based group of volunteers, who for over 20 years have provided programmes for six South Essex Hospitals, including three in the Brentwood area, already donate copies of Essex in Vision, it’s bi-
A smiling ETV Chairman Fred Curtis seen here at his editing desk, after returning from the Institute of Videography 2001 national awards dinner where he had been presented with the runner up award for the best feature in the documentary section or the Institutes coveted national video awards.
It’s the sixth year of these increasingly prestigious awards, which are open to the nations videographers working in corporate and news gathering fields. With the awards being presented as part of the Institutes National Convention and Exhibition. Held near the NEC in Birmingham in early May.
In the documentary section of the awards, only three productions were nominated this year. The first prize narrowly being gained by a film on fish farming. But the runner-up award was gained by Fred for his editing and production skills for a production of ETV’s Essex in Vision video magazine that is distributed free of charge to over 50 local old folk homes and six small hospitals in the South Essex area.
It’s the sixth year of these increasingly prestigious awards, which are open to the nations videographers working in corporate and news gathering fields. With the awards being presented as part of the Institutes National Convention and Exhibition. Held near the NEC in Birmingham in early May.
In the documentary section of the awards, only three productions were nominated this year. The first prize narrowly being gained by a film on fish farming. But the runner-
