Doug, a UTSC alum who was a part of second incoming class of Scarborough College in 1966, here speaks about his experience working with the television studio on campus.
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In those days television was the big thing. The initial concept of the university was that there would be lectures given on video, and distributed through the various pods
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from a central location, the Scarborough College TV studios. These photographs are taken in the Scarborough College facility as it was then, the fellow in the dark cardigan is me sitting on the boom. Yeah. And right in front of me
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you can see there’s a sign which was very professionally done by the video people then, for a
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production of “The Bacchae” by Euripides which I was given the opportunity to do. This was an incredible opportunity for somebody like me, coming out of a high school environment. In those days, with
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this vision of a TV centred college, the facilities were excellent. The cameras, I believe, were taken
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from the old City TV and, you can see the studio, the booth up above in
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the bottom picture. And for that particular production they actually brought in a consultant from the CBC. Quite an important fellow,
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what was his name again? He was an actor. Anyway I was given help by a professional, and a professional crew, and with
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a group of, oh, it must have been about 10 students. We put on this play on video, and it was, of course disseminated through the college on their closed circuit system.
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Now that was just one of the examples of how Scarborough enabled me to do things I probably wouldn’t have had the chance to do elsewhere.
