{"id":7556,"date":"2018-03-27T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:33:05","slug":"new-discoveries-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/new-discoveries-past\/","title":{"rendered":"New Discoveries from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2018\/03\/Photo-on-27-03-2018-at-12.05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7555\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2018\/03\/Photo-on-27-03-2018-at-12.05-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>And yet more STOIC discoveries from 48 years ago. I was at Imperial yesterday and came across something I&#8217;d forgotten about and had really meant to do something about years ago. It&#8217;s another batch of 8mm films from the STOIC 1970-1972 &#8220;TOPIC&#8221; and &#8220;IC Newsreel&#8221; programmes era. A lot of it was shot on colour film stock, even though we only had black and white TV. All manner of things are there too! More of this once I can get them digitised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2018\/03\/Photo-on-27-03-2018-at-11.53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7554\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2018\/03\/Photo-on-27-03-2018-at-11.53-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>And, just for a change, today I&#8217;m digitising two Betacam tapes that are now 16 years old. Commemoration Day 2002 was when Lee Kuan Yew was made a Fellow of Imperial College. The tapes I&#8217;m digitising are historic, as it was the first time a Commemoration Day had been recorded in its entirety and that was initially because of the special Fellowship being awarded. I have to say that they are all playing without errors &#8211; amazing!<\/p>\n<p>More on all of these, soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tapes I&#8217;m digitising today are historic, it was the first time a Commemoration Day (2002) had been recorded in its entirety&#8230;<\/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":[3921,18461],"tags":[749,7985,18467],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-college-history","tag-commemoration-day","tag-fellows","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>New Discoveries from the past - 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\/new-discoveries-past\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Discoveries from the past - 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