The original ten VHS cassettes of this workshop were copied at slow speed reducing their tape length so the material could fit onto only four cassettes. I learned about this trick from GMU's audio visual librarian at Fenwick, and the GMU AV library staff used the GMU equipment to do the copying for me. We needed the reduced number of cassettes in order to easily lend them out for study. Quite a few people borrowed the slow speeds, to take home and watch. They were borrowed then mailed back to us from various places, such as Kentucky or Trinidad or Arizona. In fact, someone still has one set of the tapes, and we may never get them back, because they are in Taiwan. Ming Chen borrowed them a day or two before he left to go back home, after a stay at George Mason University where he had a sabbatical or study leave of some kind. Also I seem to recall that Qu Dong took a copy of the slow speeds with him on one of his trips to China, and maybe that set didn't come back either, but that doesn't make sense because I see by the GMU Library Finding Aid that Fenwick Library now has a copy in Warfield Special Collection. Or maybe I dubbed an extra copy with our home equipment, for Qu to take with him. For a long time I tried to keep a record of who had the Slow Speeds, but it was hard to keep track of them when we were so busy at GMU. Also whoever had them was likely to keep them for a long time, months, maybe and then finally ship them back. We never wrote and asked for return, just waited until the borrower was done with them and shipped them back. It was very convenient to have the slow speeds, but of course now we don't need anything like that anymore, because the entire 20 hour workshop can fit easily on one DVD disk. The Slow Speeds are antiques. Full list of tapes:
(r.w. 2/24/2007)
