Description: Small bits of drop out throughout. USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Two red tugboats and a Coast Guard boat nearby. Gangplank hoisted and dropped. Helicopter hovers over harbor. Onlookers line dock. Ship moves away from wharf under escort for turnaround.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1976
Description: High, wide, long shots of Boston environs from observation deck of Hancock Tower. Nearly aerial views of South End, Charles River, Boston Harbor, State House, and orange line T moving along elevated tracks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/10/1976
Description: Oil tankers and cargo ships in Boston harbor. Sunlight reflects off of oil tanker. Snow on pier. Woman reports that approximately a week prior, the Grand Zenith, a 642 foot tanker disappeared, or perhaps sunk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1977
Description: Waterfront park, Harbor Towers, Mercantile Wharf, Long Wharf, Chart House, Lewis Wharf, Joseph's Aquarium restaurant, Union Wharf. Sign 'lobsters shipped anywhere.' Commercial Wharf building boarded up. Prince building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1978
Description: Campaigning in mayoral race: Joseph Timilty in Ashmont Hill, Dorchester. He speaks on displacement and discusses issues with local families. David Finnegan speaks to press at Boston harbor on returning harbor to its primacy. He explains the importance and efficiency of commuter transportation across the water during an energy crisis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1979
Description: Wreckage footage of World Airways crash in icy Boston Harbor off Logan runway. Speculative cause is said to be poor braking. Part of impromptu press conference with forensic anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow. Additional footage of planes overhead.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1982
Description: Charles Bennett interviews a longtime fisherman on the state of the fishing industry and the change in quota regulations. Boat docked at Fish Pier in snow flurries. Boston Fish Market Corporation building on pier. Seagulls hover over water in the Boston Harbor. Assorted catch offloaded by the bucketful and sorted by hand into wooden bins. Fishermen in yellow and orange rain gear. Tracking hauls wooden bins of fish. Men inside booth listening to the radio.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1982
Description: Deer Island sewage treatment, boiler room, generators, control room, outside shots. Water gates, gas spheres, rushing water. Man explains the sewage treatment process and the way the machinery works. Boston skyline across the Harbor. Tape damage toward the end of the video.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1982
Description: Long Wharf Marriott. Chart House restaurant. New England Aquarium. Pedestrians. Parked taxi. View from Waterfront Park to expressway, Government Center skyline in background. Many shots inside Deer Island sewage treatment plant. Temperature and pressure gauges. Screen splits (top half of image appears on the bottom have of the screen) in the middle of the video.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1982
Description: Charles Bennet interviews Massport executive director David Davis about the Massport board of directors and the enormous success of one-way tolls experiment on Tobin Bridge and harbor tunnels. They shoot cutaways. Shots of the Commonwealth Pier. Tanker passes by. Smaller boats tied up along waterfront. Traffic on fish pier. Massport Maritime Terminal. Dump trucks clearing ground for construction. Cranes hanging over pier.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/23/1983