{"id":10045,"date":"2023-01-01T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2023-01-01T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:36:52","slug":"prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Eric Laithwaite &#8211; uncut: 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously made available the following two videos which I recorded for Professor Eric Laithwaite. Recently I was able to locate the original camera footage shot on each day, and of course, prior to being edited. I thought that after 40 years it was worth uploading this uncut footage.<\/p>\n<p>There are two versions of the Gyro Wheel and several retakes &amp; close-up&#8217;s of the Plate Levitator. The Gyro Wheel was recorded in the TV Studio and the Plate Levitator down in Eric Laithwaite&#8217;s lab on level one in Electrical Engineering. There will be a few start and stops, along with colour bars and black in-between. You&#8217;ll also hear me over the studio intercom and off-camera when down in the lab. As I have said before, he was very easy to work with and understood and appreciated how videos, films and TV programmes were made and also the requirements to reshoot sections or close-ups. In the TV studio you will also see Barry Owen his Research Assistant helping to spin the wheel up. And down in the lab, Eric Laithwaite will give him a few instructions during the lifting of the plate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZeQJclDuDE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmrJiqZK6MY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw January 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years, we now get to see the 1983 original uncut camera footage of Eric Laithwaite&#8217;s Gyro Wheel and Plate Levitator demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,18461,80,390],"tags":[84,81,18467],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-college-history","category-people","category-technology","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-research","tag-tv-studio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prof Eric Laithwaite - uncut: 1983 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prof Eric Laithwaite - uncut: 1983 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After 40 years, we now get to see the 1983 original uncut camera footage of Eric Laithwaite&#039;s Gyro Wheel and Plate Levitator demonstrations.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-01T09:36:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/prof-eric-laithwaite-uncut-1983\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Colin Grimshaw\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4311976ffc5be7f49bbc628f4d3e591e\"},\"headline\":\"Prof Eric Laithwaite &#8211; 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