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Part 1. Main Speakers: George Aitken, David Smith, Agnes Benedickson, Dr Walter Light
Location: Walter Light auditorium
Begins with narrator talking about the purpose of Walter Light Hall and the electrical engineering program. Cuts to George Aitken talking about the naming in front of an audience in the auditorium. He presents Dr Light with a scroll signed by the graduating electrical engineering class. Smith takes the podium and talks about Dr Light. Benedickson and also talks about Dr Light as well as the naming process for the building, before unveiling a picture of him that will hang in the building. Dr Light then talks about how honoured he is. Ends with shots of the gathering after the naming.
Part 2. Main Speaker(s): CFRC Interviewer, Dr Walter Light
Location: Walter Light Auditorium
Takes place after the Walter Light Hall Naming. The CFRC interviewer asks Dr Light about his opinions on topics related to business, technology, and universities.

Video copy of film held at Library and Archives Canada. Includes footage of the following: First locomotive, Queen's visit, Orange parade (Cricket field), DC Everest Launch, Army Display at Waterfront, DH Otter and Avengers at Kingston Airport, RCHA last parade of horse-drawn artillery, Bluenose, convict ship, cadet parade, first flight, circus parade, 1932 Kingston Airshow, R100 in Quebec, at Kingston Airport, at Yacht Club, Queen's Gliding Club, Sweizer Factory (Elmira, NY), Otter at Gan Airport, Gruno Glider.

Part 1. Main Speaker: David Smith. Location: Grant Hall.Video begins with procession filing into room, then Brain Yealland says a prayer. David Smith addresses the convocation with a speech, after which the video cuts out before jumping to partway through the new graduates receiving their degrees. Two people are presented with awards from the university, and then the convocation ends.

Part 2. Main Speakers: David Smith, Yevgeniy Ivanovich Chazov and Bernard Lown (Hown). Smith talks about Chazov's and Lown's accomplishments, before presenting them with their degrees. Chazov then addresses the convocation with a speech. Lown then presents another speech to the convocation. Afterwards, graduating students are given their degrees for the rest of the video. This tape is presumably the cut-out section of part 1.

Part 1. Main Speaker: David Smith, Floyd Switzer. Brian Yealland opens with a prayer, and then Smith addresses the convocation with a speech. Switzer is then given his honourary doctor of laws, and then is invited to address the convocation with a speech.

Part 2: Switzer delivers his speech to the convocation.

Part1. Main Speaker: Agnes McCausland Benidickson, George Munro Grant (actor), David Smith, Douglas Wright. Video begins with a re-enactment of the first convocation for the Faculty of Applied Science. Benidickson announces the re-enactment after which Grant (actor) announces convocation of the first two Applied Science graduates. Once the re-enactment is over Smith does a modern-day convocation, presenting Wright with an honourary degree. Wright then does a speech to the graduating class. The graduating class of engineers is then given their degrees.

Part 2. Continuation and conclusion of graduating applied science class being given their degrees.

Part 1. Main Speaker: David Smith. Location: Jock Harty.Video begins with procession filing into room after which Brian Yealland says a prayer. Smith addresses the convocation with a speech.

Part 2. Main Speakers: David Riddick, David Smith. Begins with multiple representatives of different universities shaking Agnes Benedickson's and Smith's hands. Those who graduated from an MA program receive their degrees. Riddick addresses the convocation before receiving his honourary degree. Afterwards a video created for the sesquicentennial is played. Smith presents Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Marlene Brant Castellano, Helene Cixous, William Dennis Jordan, Alexander Marshall Levitt, Paula LeDuc, and Lydia Phindile Makhubu with an honourary degree.