Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oswald's Marine specialty, radar controller, required above-average intelligence, and he ranked seventh in his training class in Biloxi, Miss. From visual, radio and radar observation at Atsugi, one base from which the U-2 operated, Oswald could have learned much about its speed, rate of climb and altitude...
Jane Q. Student wanted to make a documentary video tape on street musicians for academic credit last semester. She had to do this under special supervision, because there were no courses in video. She went to the Visual and Environmental Studies Department and was told she couldn't use its equipment. She went to Harvard Video Services and was told she had to pay hundreds of dollars for their equipment. She eventually found her way to a cable TV station in Somerville, signed up to use public access equipment on a weekly basis, and was able to produce her show...
...electronic media are subtly and constantly altering our perceptual senses. But where does the student go to find out about them? Since television and video are visual media, the first place an intelligent undergraduate at Harvard would look would be the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. But, alas, the department has had a policy of "no video production" since...
Robert Gardner, senior lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies, who recommended the "no video" policy to the Faculty says, "In a better of possible worlds we would have video production. It is an important medium of expression and it's terribly important in a place like this in visual studies to undertake some work because video is an important medium in the country and in civilization. To leave out video and TV is quite artificial but it is required because of the practical exigencies of financing...
Between 1968 and 1975, students could take classes in video at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The VES department spent tens of thousands of dollars on video equipment, acquiring four porta-paks (portable camera and recording decks for location shooting), monitors, and simple editing equipment. The film wing of the department was divided into three sections--16 mm film, photography and video...