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Title: NEW COMPUTER, ROBERT GORDON'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Reference number: N0644

Date: 1977

Production company: Grampian Television

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 6.15 mins

Description: Mr. Ian Ellis, Head of Computer Services at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology explains the uses of a new £200,000 computer which will have industrial as well as academic benefits to the Aberdeenshire and offshore economies.

Credits: reporter Dermot McQuarrie

Shotlist: [mute] gvs new computer working; close shots of two female operators working with keyboard and computer tapes; c/u tape; c/u printout: "Grampian Today News" (0.20) [sound] interview with Mr. Ian Ellis, Head of Computer Services at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology (1.29) [mute] ls computer in operation, female operator typing in f/ground; close shot typist, c/u hands and keyboard; c/u reel of computer tape in motion; ls "DEC system 20"; takes of female operator checking pen recorder readout from separate machine, cans of tape in b/ground; c/u complex graphic drawing as it is produced by printer (3.07) c/u printout: "Grampian Today News" (4.16) [sound] further interview shots, Mr Ellis discusses buying foreign machine (5.46) reporter cutaways (6.15)