{"id":9709,"date":"2021-12-14T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9709"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:20:45","slug":"rag-week-round-up-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/rag-week-round-up-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Rag Week Round-Up: 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On the 29 November 1979<\/strong> edition of STOIC’s News-Break, Bryan Steele spoke to the Rag Chairman, Rachel Snee about how she thought things had gone so far. There then followed a video of the “Exec Torture” which she had taken part in. The following week on the 5 December<\/strong> there the first of two summaries of Rag Events that had happened. On the 13 December<\/strong> programme, which was also the Christmas Special, the last summary was shown.<\/p>\n

Both of these were brought together, and also compiled by, Alastair Knights, who was at that time the STOIC Archivist. This time period is now important because it’s the year when we moved onto the Sony U-Matic tape format, and videotapes were then subsequently kept. Up until then Ampex format videotapes were erased and re-recorded over each week. I encouraged the setting up of a card index and the inclusion of a running order in each tape box. From all of this we now have this amazing archive and associated index – which is now digitised.<\/p>\n

Sadly, all of these video items were still being recorded in black and white, or maybe it was better that way? You judge for yourself as we go back 42 years into student Rag history…<\/p>\n

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