The Central Inter-University Institute for the Development of Instructional Resources in the Netherlands

A Central Institute has been developed from the Film Service Department of the University of Utrecht into a full-scale inter-university instructional resources institute. At first (in 1950) the department made films for a bacteriology course. After winning several awards, other universities sought to use its facilities. The new body, called the Film and Science Foundation (SFW), was founded in 1956 and subsidized by the Ministry of Education. Other facilities were added, including closed-circuit television and a mobile unit which contained a Plumbicon multipurpose chain and a color TV chain. In 1965, a quadruplex video-tape recorder was acquired. A new building has a studio complex for color TV and film, an administrative building, an experimental lecture hall with TV transmission facilities and a school for training scientific photographers, cinematographers and TV technicians.

Print ISSN

0361-4573

Published

1969-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J10792