Vintage footage of student life 40 years ago

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They wore flares and handlebar moustaches, drank beer for 13p a pint and watched the new hit comedy Monty Python.

Vintage footage promoting student life in Manchester 40 years ago has surfaced on the internet.

The 15-minute film guides newly-arrived Freshers through student etiquette of the 70s - including how to get into student digs and what to expect from lecturers.

 

Nostalgic: This vintage footage promoting student life in Manchester 40 years ago has surfaced on the internet

 

The nostalgic footage, from 1972, was made by the former Umist university to attract students.  The film describes the highlight of the social calendar as the 'regular mid-week discos'.

The annual Rag Week parade - still a major event on today's campuses - includes wacky activities which would raise eyebrows today, including students doing battle by throwing canteen 'waste' at each other from large drums.

The footage was saved from the scrapheap by university worker Andy Cooper during a clear-out of the campus.  Mr Cooper, 45, an audio-visual technician, told how he stumbled across the dust-lined 16mm film.  He said: 'There were a large number of film cans which had been sitting there. My supervisor told me to dump them but I asked if I could keep them.'

The film guides newly-arrived Freshers through student etiquette of the 70s

The footage was saved from the scrapheap by university worker Andy Cooper during a clear-out of the campus

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