Open University - Velocity Diagrams

[fulhambob]

I love the disclaimer at the start

[articocean]

it shouldn't take ages to turn something from tape to computer, you need to update or change the software settings for the conversion. Then it should do it in real time. So a 10 minutes porgram will take 10minutes, as it plays it will convert into the video into a file

[ahd2006]

@articocean Maybe with different software and equipment. When I do things, everything is captured in DV quality, from Mini DV tape and I have a small hard drive which can't handle the Gigs of data a half hour programme would need to do it in one go. Besides, I only put this video up to show the graphics, clothes and general oldskool style of the show.

[mtbman1989]

you took out ANYTHING useful!

[stevobrazil]

Look Around You

[MultiSpread]

gREAY PROGRAMMES, EMPIRES ARE BUILT ON THIS STUFF. LOOK WHERE WERE AT NOW IN THIS COUNTRY.

[nckweeks]

I use these to help me get off to sleep. I don't need to go to the Dr's about my insomnia anymore

[vickozoomba]

I used to watch these OU broadcasts late on BBC2 before I even knew what engineering was! Loved them. Another one was about teaching vibrations and they used an old Austin Allegro on a test track with loads of obsatcles embedded on the road. Going back the years now!

[shtookatz]

So did the cars collide?

[rogermyas]

Damn it I could really do with watching that whole video.

you metaphoric prick tease

[ahd2006]

@rogermyas Sorry, I only put this video up to show the graphics, clothes and general oldskool style of the show.

[dreamcastII]

This is ok - you can learn from this I bet

[phatman5000]

Brill. You cut out the only useful bits.

Cheers.

[dibser]

Agreed, i was actually in it for the veocity diagrams but the reminiscing will have to do i guess.

[ahd2006]

@phatman5000 Sorry, I only put this video up to show the graphics, clothes and general oldskool style of the show.

[ceebie13]

@ahd2006

...and my claim to (dubious) fame is that I did the graphics when I worked at the BBC OU in Milton Keynes!

[RobinCarmody]

Still using the BBCtv logo in 1989 ... remarkable ... and they were all made in ... Milton Keynes, where else?

[filmnet]

The new symbol had only been introduced the previous year, and took about 3 years to be firmly "established". Anyway, this was low budget... probably couldn't afford to make a new symbol just for the captions & credits!

[thomasking55]

Has anyone got an old Engineering Scientist for colleges type program theme - futuristic electronic music with three or four arcs being draw - like a C shape...

[ahd2006]

I wish, sounds great.

[leobonacci]

Same you can't spell theorem

[HighlandFilm]

i love it, groovy man. Its useful, i'll use it to work out the velocity of his mustache. I see he's using einsteins well knows "red car blue car" theorum. :)

[ruuman]

I miss the OU so much, do you have the full program?

[ahd2006]

Yep.

[ruuman]

any chance you can post it up?

[ahd2006]

Not the whole thing, no. It takes ages to get anything from tape to the computer, and I don't have that much time on my hands.

[ruuman]

sure thing mate, I'm much the same, cheers for the clip

[prontford]

"This programme was made before the current legislation on Health and Safety had been passed."

Now if that doesn't hook you in, nothing will!

[RapidAssistant]

Brown shirts, dodgy beards, bad hairdos - all that's missing is the kipper tie! - it can only be a 1970's OU broadcast!

[mason642]

this is cool , any footage of BBC's Landmarks or C4's Geography Start Here or something like that?

[cultguy]

The guy on the velocity diagram looks like he's having fun. It could be the new ride at Alton Towers. It's 'Relative Velocity!'folks.