This video features student attending orientation at the University at Albany in 1951, on the downtown campus. There are two separate orientation camps depicted, one for the women and one for the men. Students are depicting canoeing, student bonding activities at a campground. There are many scenes of students studying, working on projects and interactions between students and faculty. Many different sports are depicted, such as, archery, basketball, baseball, wrestling, and tennis. There are shots of students eating dinner, playing bridge, and socializing in front of the fire. Also "moving up day" is featured.

Date created

• 1951

Type

• Video

Creator

• Unknown

Original Medium

• Film

Duration

• 19:32

Date Digitized

• 2017 February 1

Master Format

• MP4

Identifier

• nam_ua390_tomorrows_teachers_today_1951

Subject

• College student orientation
• State University of New York at Albany

Digitization Specifications

• Encoding: 24bit/48khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 8 ; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Mac Pro 4 with a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

Office of Communications and Marketing Records

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives