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I was the person who started York Student TV in November 1967. Initially it was a combined film/TV production outfit called | I was the person who started York Student TV in November 1967. Initially it was a combined film/TV production outfit called 'York University Tele-Film Productions' - a clumsy name which lasted less than a year and bit the dust when the film part was hived off into a separate student society. | ||
The original idea came from a lecturer in the Education Department at York whose name I now forget. I was a Biology and Education student who was peripherally involved in student filmmaking that was then part of the student Drama Society. The Education Department had just acquired some early video equipment, together with three technical guys to run it and essentially didn't know what to so with it. The lecturer suggested to me that I should start a student TV society to make use of the equipment and the whole thing took off from there. | The original idea came from a lecturer in the Education Department at York whose name I now forget. I was a Biology and Education student who was peripherally involved in student filmmaking that was then part of the student Drama Society. The Education Department had just acquired some early video equipment, together with three technical guys to run it and essentially didn't know what to so with it. The lecturer suggested to me that I should start a student TV society to make use of the equipment and the whole thing took off from there. | ||
I initially gathered together a group of 10 to 20 people, I think by putting up a notice on college noticeboards. We met every Monday evening in the little meeting room overlooking the Langwith dining room (is is still there?). At these meetings we discussed ideas for the weekly 'news magazine' programme we called 'Newsround', wrote some scripts and generally had a good time. Script writing was made easier because a couple of our members (not me) could type and one | I initially gathered together a group of 10 to 20 people, I think by putting up a notice on college noticeboards. We met every Monday evening in the little meeting room overlooking the Langwith dining room (is is still there?). At these meetings we discussed ideas for the weekly 'news magazine' programme we called 'Newsround', wrote some scripts and generally had a good time. Script writing was made easier because a couple of our members (not me) could type and one (Sieta Rijkelijkhuizen who later became station director and who now also lives in Australia) actually owned a portable typewriter which was a great boon. | ||
We produced 'Newsround' on (I think) a Wednesday afternoon in the 'studio' in the basement of the Chemistry building. We had two cameras on dollys and the vision switching (such as it was) was done by the senior technical officer employed by the University. Cameras were operated sometimes by the other technicians and sometime by trusted students (a couple of our members had worked as camera operators in broadcast television). | We produced 'Newsround' on (I think) a Wednesday afternoon in the 'studio' in the basement of the Chemistry building. We had two cameras on dollys and the vision switching (such as it was) was done by the senior technical officer employed by the University. Cameras were operated sometimes by the other technicians and sometime by trusted students (a couple of our members had worked as camera operators in broadcast television). | ||