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Handwritten stock register that lists a total of 60 items

Handwritten register that details the photo film issues

Letter from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi appreciating SWRC's work and practice

Mother and child development programme report page highlighting audio visual interventions

Janmalal Bajaj Awards 1985 citation book showing Sanjit "Bunker" Roy one of the Awardees.

Memorandum of Association roles and regulations of the SWRC Tilonia

Barefoot college or knowledge demystified book detailes the philosophy that went iinto the making of Barefoot college, the Campus structure, workings and ways and approach to education

Album Postage Stamp and Special Cover, India Post

Village women watching TV in SWRC campus

VHS unit at left preparing for recording farm activity, SWRC

Commerce at the village level, Video recording activities at a village shop.

VHS Camera with school children at a childrens mela in SWRC campus

SWRC team recording performance of dancers and acrobats of the local"Nat" community; Groups of villagers can be seen watching.

Television set being set up for cpmmunity viewing at SWRC. Projection screen can be seen on the right.

Video Recording image of map to create inserts or B-roll footage for use in video film

Photograph shows number of people needed for shooting B-roll footage .

Sujit Chatterjee of CENDIT carrying headphones, gun microphone and cables . Camera assistant carries ther video camera in Tilonia village. The [icture gives and indication of the wieght of equipment of the times.

The Sony M7 camera and its operator with cable connecting it to a video recording unit. Photo shows the seperation between the camera and the video tape on which recording was made.

A Jan Sunwai public hearing at SWRC . Note the microphone on a stand on the ground in the middle of the photo and group. A camcorder on a tripod in trhe background can be seen recording the event.

The frame of a puppet show can be seen. The piupetters stand inside this and control the puppets visible above. Video camera and video tape recorder unit recording action out of photo frame.

Video camera VHS format on one shoulder, and video tape recorder on other shoulder of caeraperson.

Rajive Jain recording single mic audio. Handkerchief being used on the mic to cut wind sound

Rajive Jain in conversation with rural water engineering (pani mistri) program staff

First video trainees with video camera at SWRC Tiloniya. Pursotam Sharma, Kaml Soni, Ramlal Nat, Bhanwar Gopal and other.

Photo slides being arranged before storage in a slide box

Panasonic M7 VHS camcorder in use at public meeting inTilonia

Sony M7 video camera with seperater portable recorder in front used in a night shoot.

Video camera (Sony M7) professional grade with seperate camcorder being used for night event.

JVC camera on tripod with seperate tape recording unit (not visible) used in VHS or erarly low-band Umatic

Front view of JVC KY 1900 camera unit showing lens array and eyepiece with hand grip adjacent to lens.

External TV Crew with Beta Camcorder at SWRC on occasion of Prince Charles visit.

Data entry of photo slides on computer database for ease in accessing and creating slideshows.

Another operator showing Data entry of slides on early computer database.

CENDIT video team along with other video and still cameras at SWRC on Prince Charles visit to SWRC Tiloniya campus.

Balwant Singh Rawat from CENDIT and Bhanwar Gopal from SWRC at the end of the day

8mm cine film projector and slide projector (right) with carousel at film storeoom at SWRC Tiloniya. Bhanwar Gopal on the left

8mm cine film being roaded on spool to clean and re-align film roll

Viewing and arranging photo slides on a light table to check damage and place them in order

Avik Ghosh of CENDIT recording video with JVC tube Camera at the homes of rural poor at villages around SWRC. The video tape recorder unit can be seen behind.

BBC video unit at Tiloniya supported by SWRC technical staff on occasion of Prince Charles visit to campus.

Bhanwar Gopal of SWRC and Shubha Gupgta of CENDIT recording at village Tiloniya

Bhanwar Gopal of SWRC who was a first video person at SWRC from 1970s

Ram Lal of Audio visual department with digital camcorder

Mohan Lal, Audio Visual department with Digital video camera

Editor on the right at the database computer probabbly searching for images or footage. The video editing computer is behind her in the centre of trhe room. Note the side panel of the computer is absent, to allow for cooling of the video processor and mother board. The digital video tape camera is on a tripod on the left.

Kailash Panwar at the SWRC AV office working on a video editing software.

Kailash and Mohun at Audio Visual department office in SWRC Tiloniya.

Kailash Panwar and Pokhor (on the right) at AV office in Tiloniya campus

Gobar gas plant were built as sustainable. alternate energy source for old and new campus at SWRC Tiloniya.

As part of water harvesting, storage and piping , ascertaining water quality in every stage in brackish/ salt water area is very important. Consequently, training local residents about water collection and testing methods were widely adapted. Here a local village resident is explaining the results to officials of the water resources department,

Computer with printer and scanner, surrounded by CDs and VCDs on wall racks. with printer and scanner, surrounded by CDs and VCDs on wall racks. keeping track of media storage materials in the SWRC AV department library

Senegal has been a partner country in the journey of rural technological self reliance. Inaugrated in 2002, a vocational training centre was built in Dakar in pratnership with CEDT. The centre was created between 1999- 2001.

Stills from the shooting of the film Hand Pump Mistri, an early technological intervention in both water and modern communication . SWRC created a cadre of trained hand pump engineers to create self reliant communities.

Documentary about the origin and story of Rajasthan's Hand pump mistry

Documentary about a rural piped drinking water supply system that worked wihtout engineers

A recording of a street play showing the real problems, the rural poor face to procure drinking water.

Documentary about the water procuring in th cold desert of Ladakh

Documentary about Shankar Singh who was a puppeteer associated with the Audio Visual department of SWRC, Tilonia

Film about the aims and objectives of Social Work and Reserch Centre facilitating rural technological upgradatiopn through technological intervention, redesign for development ussing low cost and indigenpus technologies in an attempt at securing technology for the rural poor.

SWRC's efforts in 1990 in creating solar driven electricity supply in the villages of Leh is documented in this film that addresses the unmet demand of electrical power in Ladakh .