News Archive > September, 2007

Further projects from Dave Simpson and Graham Easton have been added to the Members' Projects page.

Morecambe Bay Movie Makers began their 2007/08 season of weekly meetings at St Christopher's Church Hall, Bare, Morecambe on Monday with a members' film night. The meeting gave members the opportunity to catch up on each other's summer projects.

There was a drama movie shot in Lancaster and a record of a parachute jump for charity. The club movies included out-takes from the filming of the Liverpool City 800th charter day, which members made for the North West Film Archives. Also shown were out-takes from the making of "Bittern Country, Our Heritage" the story of the AONB around Silverdale and Arnside, including a tour of Leighton Hall. There was a showing of the first half of a concert performed by students from Beaumont College, which had been filmed by members for the college at the Nuffield Theatre in July.

With the 2007/08 season about to get underway, we have added no fewer than nine projects (including movie clips) to the site, from John Selby, Brian Melmore, Ron Wood and Graham Easton. Previous projects from John Selby and Ron Wood have now been updated with movie clips. To see the projects, visit the Members' Projects page.

Projects which were competition entries are now linked directly from the relevant Competition Results page.

The 2007/08 Event Programme is now online.

Liverpool 800 Day - A report and accompanying stills from club members' recent trip to film the Liverpool 800 celebrations has been added to the Members' Projects section.

"HMAS Ovens" - Brian Melmore's short film about the decommissioned submarine has been added to the Members' Projects section.

The club has received the following request for help from True North Productions:

Hello. Can you help me? I'm producing a series of programmes for ITV Granada and Yorkshire which is looking at film footage of holidays from days gone by. Do any of your members have any holiday footage which may be of interest? I'm looking for interesting trips to the coast, lake district, north Wales, or even abroad for a forthcoming series called 'The Way We Were - on Holiday'. The programmes take film collections of interest and talk to anyone who was involved in making the film, or who appeared in it, just to tell us what was going on. The holiday films need to be reasonably substantial, covering a subject which could sustain interest over five or six minutes, either from one trip or a series of holiday stories.Works trips, club outings and one off holiday events would be fine, as well as family collections.

Producer, The Way We Were.