Photos+Video
50th Anniversary Hallway Cam
Continuous candid footage from a wall-mounted "body cam"
IN 2018, organizers of MLC's 50th anniversary celebration partnered with alumna Paty Baum to create two pieces of video storytelling, to add to her 2003 student interviews and 2004 MLC documentary.
There were nine new interviews, with students who began at MLC from 1968 to 1974. And there were the 19 sequential 15-minute videos linked from this page, shot by an automated camera affixed to the wall near the MLC office. The camera continuously captured the whole event, with people's comings and goings, arrivals and reunions.
A still shot from the first video segment—the first (clickable) image on this page— gives a clear idea of the camera's perspective and the feel of the crowd.
The first segment includes entertaining footage of Paty carrying the camera and setting it up.
Thumbnails for the remaining eighteen segments are arranged below in chronological order. Click on the images to open the videos in Vimeo.
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