Aiglon Memories 1966 - YouTube Playlist by Richard Treadway

[Iain Barraclough]

Forwarded tot he Aiglon alumni group by IainB6467, to put this into (start) a new topic.
This is a really nice and helpful playlist. Many thanks Richard!

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From: Richard Treadway <richard....@gmail.com>
Date: 6 January 2011 11:08
Subject: Re: {Aiglon College alumni group} Re: Erik Friedl: "Memories of JC" and "In Praise of High Places"
To: aiglon-colleg...@googlegroups.com


Hi Iain,

Thanks for the kind remarks regarding the Aiglon videos.  

For those who haven't seen the videos I created a Playlist called Aiglon Memories 1966  

The videos are based on 8mm movies I took at Aiglon in 1966.  So far I have created 5 episodes with plans to create a couple more.  All the music is by Aiglonites or their children. 

 Enjoy,

Cheers,

Richard

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Iain Barraclough <iain.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah! Thanks Eric,
This is now decidedly off-topic, but:
Yes that YouTube vid - Aiglon Memories 1966 Part 5 - Dijon Expedition - is another great vid by Richard Treadway. He's very good isn't he? (Though maybe not quite in your league yet!)
In this one I even noticed some shots of you and also my smiling face in it - a still, about 0:22 mins in, and a movie bit at about 1:41 mins in, so I showed it to my family. It got a laugh or two - I don't have much hair now! I have very few photos of me before age 34 as they were all lost in a fire. Those few I do have now were sent to me by family/friends after the fire.

I especially enjoyed the close-ups of the "stars" in his Aiglon Memories 1966 Part 4 - The Summer-Expedition. It reminded me of how much I actually liked (had a sense of kinship with) many of my Aiglon schoolmates.

I saw Richard Trafford in one as well. I'd like to re-establish contact with him. I wonder what became of him? I think he might have been expelled for running away or something - was he one of the group who escaped on bicycles on their summer expedition and got as far as France? Enterprising lads. He was a very likeable guy. He had had some pretty horrific experiences as a child in Africa - he told me that his nanny was killed/shot by the mau-mau as she was walking along holding his hand one day. They didn't touch him though. His mother was a very nice lady - very kind to me when I was invited to visit their apartment (I think it was either in Geneva or Montreux). Probably because of his earlier life experiences, I think he had some difficulty in settling down in Aiglon, and it worried his mother (I recall that she told me something along those lines.)

Regards,
       Iain.
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On 5 January 2011 17:16, Erik Friedl <efr...@earthlink.net> wrote:

Yes, that sounds about right.  

By the way, I stumbled across Big Treadway's video again of our Aiglon Cultural Long Ex. to Dijon/Beaune many a moon ago and there's some excellent stuff in it.  Here's the link just in case you haven't seen it yet:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5CZOyzAvE