24-11-2018, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-11-2018, 02:39 PM by ppppenguin.)
Peter, thanks for the link. The RI are appealing for recordings of "lost" lectures.
This one has special significance for me:
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/w...m-tomorrow
It was recorded the year before I went to Imperial College. Laithwaite was professor of heavy current engineering at the time and something of a legend. His work with linear motors was sometimes hazardous, as lumps of aluminium sailed down his basement lab corridor. I never took any of his courses but you couldn't avoid his presence.
From about 20 minutes in that lecture he's exploring speaking backwards. His technician for this sequence was Colin Grimshaw who ran the TV studio at Imperial College. I got to know Colin very well over the next few years, due to my involvement in STOIC, the Student Television Of Imperial College. Over one summer vacation he and I rebuilt the studio installation in a new and larger set of rooms.
The attached photos are probably from a few months before that lecture, again just before I went to Imperial. They are at the ILEA's TV studios in Battersea where Mark Caldwell (long hair, tie, glasses) was interviewing Tim Curry who was promoting the then new Rocky Horror Picture Show. Colin (almost kneeling) can be seen in both photos.
PS: More relevant stuff about TV at Imperial : http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/videoarc...1968-1979/
This one has special significance for me:
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/w...m-tomorrow
It was recorded the year before I went to Imperial College. Laithwaite was professor of heavy current engineering at the time and something of a legend. His work with linear motors was sometimes hazardous, as lumps of aluminium sailed down his basement lab corridor. I never took any of his courses but you couldn't avoid his presence.
From about 20 minutes in that lecture he's exploring speaking backwards. His technician for this sequence was Colin Grimshaw who ran the TV studio at Imperial College. I got to know Colin very well over the next few years, due to my involvement in STOIC, the Student Television Of Imperial College. Over one summer vacation he and I rebuilt the studio installation in a new and larger set of rooms.
The attached photos are probably from a few months before that lecture, again just before I went to Imperial. They are at the ILEA's TV studios in Battersea where Mark Caldwell (long hair, tie, glasses) was interviewing Tim Curry who was promoting the then new Rocky Horror Picture Show. Colin (almost kneeling) can be seen in both photos.
PS: More relevant stuff about TV at Imperial : http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/videoarc...1968-1979/
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