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This week, I'm working as a technical assistant at a video game workshop hosted by the RTF department. Just now, I was talking to two undergrads from UT-San Antonio, who expressed reservations about the quality of their school. I remarked, "I guess one of the main advantages in going to a big prestige school like this one is the facilities. The facilities here are awesome; at the place I did my undergrad, we had to use cameras you wound up by hand."

I guess they thought I was exaggerating, cause one student was like, "No way! You wound your cameras by hand?"

Of course I spoke the truth, referring to the little Bolex workhorses that film students everywhere knew and loved until the relatively recent emergence of DV. I'll bet there are still some hand-cranked Bolexes sitting around here some place.

Unfortunately, The equipment situation at OU doesn't seem to be much better these days, which is a real pity, considering the number of students interested in studying film and other media. By the time I left OU five years ago, film majors weren't even able to enroll in filmmaking classes; they were open only to studio art students.