{"id":11355,"date":"2024-05-19T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2024-05-19T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:08:36","slug":"90-down-more-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/90-down-more-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"90 down &amp; more to go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/2021-08-16-11.28.16-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11352 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/2021-08-16-11.28.16-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Well, I&#8217;ve now worked my way through 90 videotapes that have been digitised. That&#8217;s 90 more occasions where I might find something very interesting or have something of historical significance to Imperial College. As you might well know, I&#8217;m doing all of this from home since I retired early, some 13 years ago. It can, at times, be a long process to capture content from even just a single videotape. Sticky-shed, as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/creating-this-blog-is-a-sticky-business\/\">previously discussed<\/a>, can make it impossible to play a tape back without heat treatment. But once completed (which can take a full day) a videotape might yield some interesting discoveries. Also, as discussed many times, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/stoic-videotape-archive-1979\/\">archive of STOIC<\/a> is providing some incredible material with both interviews and also their coverage of college events. A recent discovery being that very short clip of Nobel Prize winner <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-abdus-salam-1980\/\">Abdus Salam<\/a> in the Great Hall. I have also discovered a fascinating interview with previous College Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/john-smith-2006\/\">John Smith<\/a> talking about his time as Governor of the Gilbert Islands. I&#8217;ll add this new video to my previous blog about him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/Pallab-Ghosh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11354\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/Pallab-Ghosh-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>During the final few transfers, I found a very early clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbcpallab\">Pallab Ghosh<\/a> who was standing for Felix Editor. My previous blog post included his 1981 interview about Wells Soc, but that was shot in black and white. This 1983 interview is in colour and is about him standing for Felix editor (which he became), it includes his election speech during the Hustings. He is now <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Science Correspondent for BBC News<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/Simon-Singh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11353\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/05\/Simon-Singh-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_Singh\">Simon Singh<\/a> was elected as RCS President back in March 1983. He came into the TV Studio along with the rest of the executive and we now have those interviews digitised. He has gone on to be an author of many books and has presented several science TV programmes, so maybe his visits to our TV Studio helped him along that route. He was awarded an MBE in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now completed the transfer of the first batch of 90 videotapes and they are now safety digitised. 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