{"id":12236,"date":"2025-11-14T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=12236"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:20:49","slug":"lord-mayors-show-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/lord-mayors-show-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Mayor&#8217;s Show: 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1230\">Back in 2019, I released the video that STOIC had recorded at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/stoic-at-the-lord-mayors-show-1980\/\">1980 Lord Mayor&#8217;s Show<\/a>. However, that was not the first time it was covered. An <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/stoics-lord-mayors-show-report-1971\/\">earlier report<\/a> was shot on 8mm colour film in 1971. Now, we are able to see the very first report covered on videotape, dating from 14 November 1979. It was featured, as always, in the weekly news programme <em data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1229\">News-Break<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1571\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The on-location STOIC reporter was Tracy Poole (Tracy Dudley). The picture is not amazing because it was recorded using an early video camera and recording system, but it did at least allow for synced audio. And of course, everything was still in black and white, although the studio had just purchased its first piece of colour equipment.<\/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\/d606fhm3B5Q?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 14 November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in time now some 46 years to see Imperial College students at the 1979 Lord Mayor&#8217;s Show.<\/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":[3921,53,295168,82],"tags":[3929,279896,212,89],"class_list":["post-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-events","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-city-and-guilds","tag-rsm","tag-stoic","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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