{"id":8955,"date":"2021-06-16T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T09:50:10","slug":"topic-1973-and-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/topic-1973-and-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic: 1973 and 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/10\/7-December-1973-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8984\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/10\/7-December-1973-3-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I have just stumbled across a copy of Felix for 4 December 1973. In it I found a promotion for STOIC&#8217;s weekly news-magazine programme TOPIC. The photo shows that is was promoting the &#8220;Golden Moments&#8221; of Rag Week in the Christmas edition of the programme on Friday 7 December. I&#8217;m sure that Rag Week would have been a few weeks earlier and suspect that this would have been shot on film, that possibly needed external developing, by Kodak perhaps?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I can also tell that this was just around the time when the co-axial cable had been run from the TV Studio all the way through the heating tunnels to the Beit Quad building. Sadly as usual, not a single edition of a TOPIC programme remains, they were all erased. What we do have are some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/topic-rediscovered-8mm-film-1972\/\">8mm films<\/a> that were used within the programmes and I am now featuring those when I have scanned the film into digital. In two cases I have an audio tape of the actual soundtrack, as in Christmas and Easter editions.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2021\/03\/Control-Room-1-May-1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9388\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2021\/03\/Control-Room-1-May-1974-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>One single item that does remain is an opening sequence, recorded in the original TV Studio on 30 January 1974. I really can&#8217;t say whether or not this was actually used in any of the programmes. Mark Caldwell, STOIC Chairman is seen, along with Paul Jarvis as Floor-manager. Dave Salmon is on camera 1 which is seen panning around. You can also see the original animated logo caption rotating around that was made by Selwyn Castleden. There&#8217;s an over the shoulder view of the control room with Steve Bell and Selwyn. There is also a brief glimpse of STOIC&#8217;s portable &#8220;rover&#8217; videotape unit as Paul Jarvis walks in front of it. You will also see a great shot of the huge 2 inch Quadraplex videotape recorder that was donated by RCA. The very rare colour photo, taken on 1 May 1974 shows Selwyn and me in the control room looking very hard at a monitor.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Topic intro Jan 1974\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQ2gLjAU9b0?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw June 2021<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just stumbled across a copy of Felix for 4 December 1973. 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