{"id":4269,"date":"2022-12-15T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:44:20","slug":"rare-film-of-move-to-barnton-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/rare-film-of-move-to-barnton-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Film of Move to Barnton 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1968 the school moved from the magnificent but outdated town centre Regent Road buildings to a brand new custom built school in the leafy suburb of Barnton, some  four and a half miles away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former pupil George Lunn has restored this film taken at the time and it can be viewed on his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6A5xWTRw628\">YouTube channel<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1968 Royal High School MP4\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6A5xWTRw628?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As George says &#8211; Movie film of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, UK taken in May and June 1968 showing pupils in the old school on Calton Hill then dissolving to the new school in Barnton. The pupils moved to the Barnton site for the last few weeks of the school year. Filmed with a Bolex B8 Standard 8 cine camera using a 12.5 mm f2.5 Yvar standard lens, a 7 mm wide angle lens, and a 36 mm telephoto lens on Kodachrome film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our grateful thanks to George for sharing this with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this brings back memories for you please share any thoughts in the comment box below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968 the school moved from the magnificent but outdated town centre Regent Road buildings to a brand new custom built school in the leafy suburb of Barnton, some four and a half miles away. Former pupil George Lunn has restored this film taken at the time and it can be viewed on his YouTube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}