{"id":10190,"date":"2022-11-01T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=10190"},"modified":"2022-11-01T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:53:15","slug":"students-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/students-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Students: 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent transfer of 8mm films into digital, I came across a film that I had forgotten all about.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971 some 3rd year students in Electrical Engineering came up with the idea of shooting a film as part of their end of term project. I&#8217;m pretty sure that these students must have had a connection with Professor Colin Cherry who was then Professor of Telecommunication in their department. I am assuming this connection with the film because both he and his former secretary are credited at the end. After 50 years we will never actually know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/10\/2022-08-20-09.04.21-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/10\/2022-08-20-09.04.21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Digitising the film was, as usual, not an easy job. The sound is a magnetic track bonded to the edge of the film and playable only via a suitable 8mm projector. Fortunately, when the TV Studio was closed, I had rescued the Eumig 8mm projector that was actually used to record the soundtrack back in 1971. The magnetic track was added to the film using a very clever device that glued the very thin piece of magnetic tape onto the edge of the film. If you look above the sprocket holes you can see this track. I know that some films had lost their tracks when the glue gave way, but this film was all OK.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded the sound from the projector, cleaned it up and adjusted the speed to be correct. I was able to judge this because I was amazed to discover that I had actually recorded part of the voice-over and that was my clue to getting the speed correct. I then adjusted the duration\/speed of the film to then match the soundtrack duration.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the students that made this are not credited on the film, so we may never know who they were. But, after 50 years here&#8217;s the film called &#8220;Students&#8221; made in 1971.<\/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\/e1z5XCu79M0?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 November 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 50 years we can now see and hear an 8mm film made in 1971 by 3rd year students as part of their end of term project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,82,279],"tags":[84,89,18467],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-student-life","category-teaching","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-students","tag-tv-studio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcL1pf-2Em","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}