{"id":11068,"date":"2024-05-01T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:35:44","slug":"degrees-of-excellence-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/degrees-of-excellence-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees of Excellence: 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly I have very little to say about this recent rediscovery. It&#8217;s a film made by the British Council for showing overseas. Clearly it&#8217;s a promotion for UK Universities and four places are featured: The University of Edinburgh; The University of Warwick; The Polytechnic (as was) of Brighton and Imperial College. At the time, I had no idea this was being shot and only knew about it when a videotape of the film was deposited with the TV Studio. The only Imperial person I can identify in it is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_S._Hartley\">Prof. Brian Hartley<\/a> (16 April 1926 \u2013 3 May 2021), who was in Biochemistry. He appeared in a video that I previously posted about, when he came into the TV Studio to talk to STOIC about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/interferon-pilot-plant-1980\/\">Interferon Pilot Plant<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Although not credited, I&#8217;m sure that the commentary is by actor Keith Barron.<\/p>\r\n<p><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\/LTTwTQXPdoY?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><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2024<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another flashback to Imperial of the past with a film that was shot by the British Council in 1984 and features the Department of Biochemistry.<\/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":[3921,79,80,82,279],"tags":[5022,279898],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-people","category-student-life","category-teaching","tag-biochemistry","tag-rcs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcL1pf-2Sw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","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=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}