This film, made by the Audio Visual Department at Leeds University, is part of the John Murray collection, and is a visual prospectus to promote it to future undergraduates. The film uses interviews with current students, voiceover descriptions of the departments and facilities and gives a great amount of information about how universities and the higher education system was run at the time. Film opens on an old style sports car which is driving along a motorway in the direction of the...

This film, made by the Audio Visual Department at Leeds University, is part of the John Murray collection, and is a visual prospectus to promote it to future undergraduates. The film uses interviews with current students, voiceover descriptions of the departments and facilities and gives a great amount of information about how universities and the higher education system was run at the time. Film opens on an old style sports car which is driving along a motorway in the direction of the camera. The shot then cuts to a long shot taken from a bridge looking down onto the car as it drives away from the camera. Title-Time to do.. Title-a degree at Leeds? The voiceover talks about the history of the University of Leeds and that it was established as the Yorkshire College of Science in 1874. The voiceover continues on to talk about the type of architectural styles that the campus is made up of, the amount of lecture theatres and the types of courses that you can take. There are shots of staff and students walking around campus, shot of people relaxing by the pond or in lectures. The camera captures the atmosphere from physics lectures, French seminars, textile workshops and concrete testing labs. The voiceover continues to talk about where there is to eat inside and outside the University. Then there are a few shots of the sports teams that were at the beginning of the film. A staff/student meeting is underway in the next section. The voiceover says that on a regular basis the staff and students meet to discuss an issues that arise in relation to the lectures. This meeting is about whether it is necessary for the students to have to sign an attendance sheet in their lectures. The voiceover talks about how much Leeds city is changing with new buildings, shops and amenities. There are shots of a sunny city centre, brass band playing and people wandering around. There is also a travel office in the Union and students queue up to talk to the operators about their various holiday enquiries. Leeds University owns a mountain hut in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District and according to the voiceover, the University rents the hut to the social clubs who stay there and go hiking. There are shots of the social club hiking along the tracks and sitting looking down onto the countryside. A Union/Council meeting is being held and the issue being discussed is the availability of student accommodation in Leeds. There is a long sequence of students talking about the various types of accommodation that they are renting: University halls, University flats, digs and non-University flats. Two female students talk about accomodation whilst in their flat, having breakfast - Cynthia Grannon and Jane, who both went on to become dentists. Following this are shots of people organising the University newspaper, pub talks by a University Professor.   In a student bar Cynthia Grannon is on stage singing, being accompanied by a guitarist, Dave Hardwick, who studied Chinese and Sociology. The final sequence of shots shows students studying, sitting for exams, being conferred and then partying at the graduation ball. Title-Produced by the Film Unit of the Television Service University of Leeds, 1971.