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I was the person who started York Student TV in 1967. | I was the person who started York Student TV in 1967. | ||
The original idea for student involvement in TV production came from a lecturer in the Education Department at York whose name I now forget. I was a Biology and Education student who had recently taken over the running of the student filmmaking activity that was then part of the 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 do with it. The lecturer suggested to me that I should organise a group of students to put together a university TV news programme to make use of the equipment. | The original idea for student involvement in TV production came from a lecturer in the Education Department at York whose name I now forget. I was a Biology and Education student who had recently taken over the running of the student filmmaking activity that was then part of the 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 do with it. The lecturer suggested to me that I should organise a group of students to put together a university TV news programme to make use of the video equipment. | ||
The whole thing took off from there and developed into a student film and TV production group that I arranged to become an official student society recognised by the Students Representative Council. The society was originally called 'York University Tele-Film Productions' - a clumsy name I invented that lasted less than a year and bit the dust when the filmmaking activity was hived off into a separate society. | The whole thing took off from there and developed into a student film and TV production group that I arranged to become an official student society recognised by the Students Representative Council. The society was originally called 'York University Tele-Film Productions' - a clumsy name I invented that lasted less than a year and bit the dust when the filmmaking activity was hived off into a separate society. | ||