Index to SLOW SPEED Videotapes of First Interactive Management Workshop on Design of an Analytical Powertrain

A good way to get an idea of what takes place during an Interactive Management workshop. It is an index composed by Rose Warfield for videotapes from first Ford Interactive Management workshop, held 14-16 April 1992. Keyed to the time codes printed on the videotape, the index lists many of the activities of the session, such as NGT and ISM, and also a few paragraphs describing what is happening. The names of all the participants are included, as well as the date, place, sponsors, and facilitators. See “First Interactive Management Workshop on Design of Analytical Powertrain, April 14-16 1991” Tape 1, Tape 2, Tape 3, Tape 4, Tape 5, Tape 6, Tape 7, Tape 8, Tape 9, and Tape 10.

A note about the Index: The brief notations in this document were written by Rose Warfield (Mrs. John N. Warfield), who became the writer by default because no one else had the time to sit down and watch the hours of videotape in order to compile a brief viewer’s guide, so that persons who had never seen an IM session might get an idea of what is going on. And even Rose had no time to index any of the other tapes in the IASIS collection. There are several hundred hours of videotaped IM sessions at George Mason University’s Special Collections & Archives department, and it is hoped that eventually funds will become available for professional editing of these other videos, to produce useful indexes and/or good quality training films about the INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT process. The first Ford workshop, held 14- 16 April 1992, produced ten videotapes. For this, Ford's first videotaped session, Rose typed up a little Index keyed to the time codes printed on the videotape. Listed in the Index are many of the activities of the session, such as NGT and ISM, and also a few paragraphs describing what is happening. The names of all the participants are included, as well as the date, place, sponsors, and facilitators. Several people asked to borrow that first video of workshop sessions. However, ten tapes is much too heavy a load to pack up easily for mailing, or even to carry around. So in order to take make lending them out a little easier, Rose asked the GMU Audiovisual Department to copy the ten tapes into a CONDENSED, slow speed set of only four tapes. Rose wrote some home-made title pages to go with the set of four tapes, which the GMU audiovisual crew dubbed into the slow-speed set. Since 1992 there have been many requests to borrow tapes, and there have been several other videotaped workshop sessions, any of which could be sent. But because the Index is useful as a guide to the tape sessions, and because of a lighter weight package, these four slow speed tapes are nearly always the set that is out on loan, with a copy of the Index sent also. "Copying Instructions for Slow-Speed Videotapes" holds 5 pages of instructions should we ever wish to prepare another slow-speed copy from the original ten cassettes (in case the four slow speed tapes wear out or become lost). The instructions give legends for the title pages, and time codes for stopping and starting the slow-speed copy to make it correspond to the printed INDEX. Some day we hope to produce indexes to the other videotapes, but no one has had time to do that as yet.




Additional Info

  • Category: Applications, Interactive Management (IM), Sponsored Projects
  • Size: 10 Minutes
  • Description: Spiral bound manuscript with cover.
  • Publication Year: 1993
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