“Take Me Back To Tech” (1976)

This film, which takes its title from a popular MIT song featured at the beginning of the piece, offers a narrative history of MIT from its Back Bay beginnings to the mid-1970s, compiled from a range of vintage film clips from the MIT film archives. It was produced in 1976 for the MIT Historical Collections by David R. Karp ’78 as an undergraduate UROP project, in cooperation with the MIT Alumni Association. Narrated by Theodore Wood, Jr., MIT Professor of Literature and American Studies. MIT Museum Collections. [T6119]