ATV Today: 31.03.1965: Warwick University

Summary

Gwyn Richards visits Warwick University where Vice Chancellor Jack Butterworth gives a progress report on construction.

Year:

1965

Duration:

0:03:20

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Establishing shot of the new University of Warwick.

Outside the administration block (which is one of the few buildings on the site that has been completed) Gwyn Richards interviews the university's vice chancellor Jack Butterworth on the need for another Midlands university.

Butterworth then points out some of the features of the site using a pointer and a scale model.

(No construction work is actually seen).


Credits

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Notes

The first undergraduates arrived at Warwick University in October 1965.

Jack Butterworth (1918 - 2003) was Vice Chancellor of the university from 1963 to 1985.