WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.005 --> 00:00:06.605 Archival color footage. On screen text. The Freshman Experience. 1972. 29 minutes, 42 seconds. 16 millimeter. Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive. 2 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:17.980 View of a campus clock tower. On screen text. Indiana University. In cooperation with The University Division presents. 3 00:00:37.620 --> 00:00:43.020 1970s era cars travel on a campus road. Long lines of traffic with a police officer directing them. 4 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:22.380 At the multi-story residence halls, college students and parents unload boxes and luggage from cars. Several people carry clothing on hangers. 5 00:02:27.260 --> 00:02:31.160 Students carry their suitcases down the long dormitory corridor. Title: The Freshman Experience. 6 00:02:36.700 --> 00:02:42.700 A woman sits alone on her dorm bed surrounded by suitcases. She looks out the window at the campus below. 7 00:03:15.450 --> 00:03:26.850 She closes the drapes and picks up a stuffed animal Snoopy. She places him on the bed, places a record on the turntable, takes off her shoes, and leans back on the bed flipping through a Life magazine. 8 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:24.660 Another woman enters the room. 9 00:04:37.806 --> 00:04:46.506 A woman and man hang out together. The woman writes a check in her checkbook while the man seals an envelope. Then, she answers the telephone as he reads. 10 00:05:23.976 --> 00:05:35.076 A poster on the woman's closet door is a drawing of a boy and girl holding hands. Then, the campus clocktower again. Two people sit in a car and look at a map of Indiana University, Bloomington. 11 00:05:54.246 --> 00:05:59.046 At the registration event, students sit at tables in a large room and look through paperwork. 12 00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:55.000 Students sit with counselors at tables labeled by subject matter such as Business, Humanities, or Exploratory. 13 00:07:24.836 --> 00:07:28.736 Students stand around long tables where assistants rifle through boxes of index cards. 14 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:13.280 A large group of students wander through a large hall. They carry armloads of papers and fill out forms. They are handed index cards. 15 00:09:57.756 --> 00:10:01.656 Representatives sit behind tables for activities such as the I U Flying Club. 16 00:10:26.300 --> 00:10:32.300 Outside on the campus, two woman sit on the edge of a fountain. One wades in. They splash each other. 17 00:10:54.630 --> 00:10:58.830 The marching band and cheerleaders are on the football field. Fans fill the stands. 18 00:11:38.426 --> 00:11:49.226 Bob Hope wears a marching band hat and waves to the crowd from the field. The band spells out the word Bob on the field, and fans hold up signs in the shape of his face. 19 00:12:03.150 --> 00:12:10.950 The football team runs onto the field. During a play, the ball is fumbled, recovered, and run in for a touchdown. The I U team celebrates. 20 00:12:48.506 --> 00:12:53.006 A modern dance group and choral group perform on the floor of the basketball arena. 21 00:13:30.280 --> 00:13:33.580 The dance troupe finishes in the shape of a peace sign. 22 00:14:01.970 --> 00:14:07.370 Students play baseball, tennis, golf, archery, lacrosse, jump hurdles, do karate and fencing, horseback riding, and high diving. 23 00:14:47.880 --> 00:14:51.780 In the dining hall, students place food on trays from the cafeteria line. 24 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.240 Students sit together around a table. 25 00:17:17.620 --> 00:17:20.620 Students study at tables. Some smoke, eat, or play cards. 26 00:18:56.786 --> 00:18:58.886 A student sits on a lawn reading. 27 00:19:42.626 --> 00:19:50.726 A group of students gather together in a living room. Then, a professor, Doctor James Sherman, Psychology Department, lectures in front of a large group of students. 28 00:21:10.580 --> 00:21:11.780 Students walk across campus. 29 00:22:11.020 --> 00:22:12.520 Students work in a laboratory. 30 00:23:22.530 --> 00:23:34.830 A male and female student walk on a tree lined path on a fall day. They toss leaves at each other, playfully wrestle, then lie among the leaves and kiss. Later, the man helps the woman pull leaves from her hair. 31 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:39.400 A student sits on a bench in a park and reads a book. Others walk on the paths among the trees. The leaves are green, gold, and red. Then, the trees are bare and snow covers the ground. 32 00:25:45.430 --> 00:25:49.930 Inside the library, students study at tables and flip through the card catalog and books. 33 00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:13.870 Students walk on campus on a cloudy winter day. They pass a small chapel. 34 00:27:45.170 --> 00:27:50.270 Students enter a large auditorium. Inside, students participate in tricycle relay races. Then, an outdoor bike race. 35 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.360 A montage of images from throughout the video. 36 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:29.020 On screen text. Welcome to Indiana University. The Freshman Experience was created and produced by Alfred R. Edyvean, Junior as a final project in independent learning. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance rendered by Joan Bennett, Dan Boyarski, Richard Bundy, Harry Geduld, George Hales, Robert Petranoff, Mark Porter, Don Scales, Phil Terman, The Audio-Visual Center, I U School of Music, The Independent Learning Program, The many hundreds of students, faculty and staff at I U. Credits continue.