{"id":11620,"date":"2025-03-04T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11620"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:29:45","slug":"ethos-opening-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/ethos-opening-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethos Opening: 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1771\">I&#8217;ve managed to save this video before it was lost forever. It is one of many videos that were hosted on the old video server previously used on the College\u2019s website. I had just asked what had happened to the old server when I was informed that it was about to be fully decommissioned and scrapped within a few months.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"2227\">Fortunately, common sense had already prevailed, and YouTube was accepted as the most obvious platform for uploading videos, leaving the old server unused. These early videos were in a variety of different formats, including RealPlayer and Windows Media. Transcoding this particular video from the RealPlayer format into a format compatible with YouTube was an almost impossible task. The image resolution is not great, but it\u2019s the best I could achieve.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2229\" data-end=\"2483\">The video shows the opening of the Ethos Sports Centre in 2006. I haven&#8217;t been able to find any general photos that might have been taken, so only the video remains. A notable attendee was Sir Roger Bannister, whom I was pleased to meet after his speech.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ethos Opening: 2006\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhQlyLYVhSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saved from being &#8216;junked&#8217; is today&#8217;s video of the opening ceremony of the Ethos Sports Centre in 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,18461,53],"tags":[438,280],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-college-history","category-events","tag-rector","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}