From my memory there were, in the last three decades of the 1900s, four cine (later video) clubs in the Nottingham area. These were Nottingham Film and Video Society (Robert Scotten), Nottingham Film Production Unit (Roger Macintosh), Long Eaton Co-op Photographic Club, cine section (later WAVE), Arthur Atkins and Maurice Adcock and West Bridgeford photographic Society, cine section.
These names and the people associated with them are those I remember and may be slightly incorrect, club names sometimes changed several times in the changeover from film to video in the late ‘90s as did our own in Nuneaton.
All four were members of MACA (Midland Area Cine Association) later to become MMM (Midland Movie Makers) as we know it today.
Now there are none. WAVE was the last one, which decided at its recent AGM, to dissolve. MACA was already well established when Nuneaton joined.
Committee meetings were held at Long Eaton’s club room above the Co-op butcher’s shop in Long Eaton town centre. With the advent of video Long Eaton changed its name to the one we all know, WAVE (Wyvern Amateur Video Enthusiasts). They moved from the butcher’s shop to meet at the local boat club, but later moved to the indoor bowls club that many of us have visited for MMM league rounds. Most of our members will only have known it by that name, but they have been around as a group for a very long time. I knew that the dissolution of the club was on the agenda for their AGM, but had hoped that they might find a way to continue.
Sadly, that was not to be and MMM were informed that WAVE was closing its doors. There are now just five clubs in MMM.
A sad decision, as WAVE has been around for as long as most of us will remember and who always took a very active role in MMM, with Pat Adcock as their secretary for many years.
There are other clubs who are struggling and Covid19 is not helping, as it is not with many other things from high street shops to our own mental and physical health.
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