A short promotional film for the University of Teesside that features a montage of images featuring various departments and resources available for students around the university and some of the project work undertaken by the centre. The film opens with clips from two computer animations produced by a student of the University of Teesside, inserted into the footage a segment from a Northern Life news report on how the University of Teesside is the first of the new universities to be given...

A short promotional film for the University of Teesside that features a montage of images featuring various departments and resources available for students around the university and some of the project work undertaken by the centre. The film opens with clips from two computer animations produced by a student of the University of Teesside, inserted into the footage a segment from a Northern Life news report on how the University of Teesside is the first of the new universities to be given an excellent grading for computing by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Students in a lecture theatre and a pair of hands typing on a computer keyboard. Exterior of the Open Learning Technology Centre and a plaque on a wall marking its opening by Sir Leon Brittan QC, Chancellor of the University on 4th February 1995. A brief view of Leon Brittan making a speech from a lectern changes to a room full of computers with students at work. Students in a large lecture theatre and a film projector changes to a clip from the film ‘Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’. The exterior of the Learning Resource Centre changes to a presentation taking place in a lecture theatre. Again, students inside the resource centre using its facilities. Exterior views of the Innovation Centre, now Stephenson Building, followed by views inside lecture theatre highlighting the amenities on offer. The shadows of two people using the Virtual Reality (VR) Suite and examples of virtual reality including a reproduction of Albert Road in Middlesbrough. On a cherry-picker two people paint the walls of the new Virtual Reality Suite. In a classroom a student using a pair of VR glasses. In the Digital Television Studio two men sit on chairs facing each other as if being interviewed. Up in the gallery other students work the studio controls. In another room a student using a Non-Linear Editing and Conferencing at student work on a computer and two men holding a tele-conference. The village of Trimdon in County Durham with pupils from the local primary school using a computer to access CIRCA (Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit). More computers are set up in a nearby community centre where three older women look at a computer screen with the ‘Trimdon 2000 Project’. The film ends with local MP Tony Blair takes a seat at a computer.