Description: Seals, Andre and Spot, swim in the seal enclosure at the New England Aquarium while a crowd watches. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Andre and Spot - Andre the seal has a new companion. [She's] Spot and she swims in the tank with Andre."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/05/1979
Description: Story #1873. Interview with artist Don Potts about the art in the exhibit at the Hayden Gallery, b-roll of the different sculptures, reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/28/1972
Description: Women in a meeting and talking in a circle. Interview with a woman about safety for women. More footage of the meeting and shots of women in attendance. Sound and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/25/1978
Description: Footage of a parade including people in an old car, people dressed like colonialist playing fifes, a marching band, people playing bagpipes, and fire trucks. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/16/1976
Description: Students handing out flyers and marching on campus with protest signs tied around their necks. Interview with a representative of Holy Cross about how many African American students are their and how the president of the college is dealing with their demands. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/08/1977
Description: Students marching and chanting "Equality Yes! Racism No! Discrimination has got to go!" Representative from the Black Student Caucus reading a statement at a press conference. Silent footage of the students marching. Reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 of 2 reels
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/08/1977
Description: Children and parents gathered around a big cake singing "Happy Birthday." Shots of several different babies in birthday hats and with their parents. Sound. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Blizzard Babies - Beth Israel Hospital held a birthday party for all the babies born there during blizzard week last year, and also invited all those folk who helped out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/02/1979, 02/04/1979
Description: Children and parents around the cake singing "Happy Birthday" as a man helps a boy cut the cake. Interview with a man about getting to the hospital during the storm, followed by an interview with his wife about giving birth to twins. Shots of babies eating cake. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Blizzard Babies - Beth Israel Hospital held a birthday party for all the babies born there during blizzard week last year, and also invited all those folk who helped out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/04/1979
Description: Outtakes from footage of press conference about the Charles St. Jail plan. Two different men speak. One man discusses the need for the City Council to stay out of the matter of site selection. Shots of the speakers intermixed with shots of press and audience around the room. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Jail reactions - Hall and Commissioner Molaughlin react to the city council plan to renovate the Charles St. jail."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/02/1978
Description: According to the Original WCVB Rundown this story was shot in the 2 O'Clock Lounge on the last night they were open. The club was shut down "due to it's [racy] type of entertainment." Dark footage of a women dancing on a stage with music playing in the background. Interview with one of the strippers. Shot of a birthday cake. Sound. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/31/1978
Description: Reporter voice over track followed by an interview with Elaine Bosler. B-roll footage of Elaine and friends going crossing the street. Bosler was the dog officer in Princeton and instead of destroying animals she brought them home to care for until they could be adopted. She was in court because the town claimed that she had too many animals in her residence. Sound. This the first half of a story. Reel 1 of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/25/1977
Description: Silent footage of people at a meeting, followed by shots of fire damage inside a school building.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/25/1976
Description: Interview with a man who works at Ron Clancy's gas station in Brookline about customers who don't buy gas. Reporter standup. Reporter voiceover about a call to protest self-serve gas stations that have no oil, air, restrooms, or other perks and therefore have lower overhead and cheaper gas. Independent dealers are asking for people to protest the self-serve stations. Reporter closing standup in front a gas station about the protests failure. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1976
Description: Footage of a swam on the water and a closeup of the swan on land. Background sound. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "This is the tale of a swan who loses its mate in Manchester and is very lonely."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/16/1977
Description: Interview with an Iranian woman about the situation for women in Iran, an interview with a man who doesn't believe that women will be oppressed in Iran, and an interview with a young girl about how she would be affected if women are oppressed in Iran. Silent b-roll of the family. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "We talk with some recent arrivals who don't believe what they see on tv and read in the papers about the situation in Iran."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/13/1979
Description: Former White House Counsel John Dean at Suffolk University speaking in front of students. Footage includes shots of the audience, Dean at the podium, and a few cut off sections of his speech. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/25/1975
Description: Exterior shot of the John Hancock Tower, zooms into one window. Shot of the window as the glass is broken and removed from the inside is innercut with shots of people on the sidewalk looking up. Silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Another [Hancock Tower window] is in trouble, this time on the 23rd floor. It's discolored and cracked, so Hancock folk remove it from the inside while Sumner films from the outside."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/09/1977
Description: Interview with a female pilot about her job and her opinion of the women's movement. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/20/1977
Description: [Mahoney Family Murder case] B-roll of newspaper article and drawing of murder scene. More b-roll of divers looking for the gun in a river in Manchester New Hampshire. Silent. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/25/1977
Description: No picture with reporter voice track for the first half of the reel about the witnesses for the prosecution that testified that day in court in the Mahoney Family Murder Trial. Reporter standup in front of the Middlesex County courthouse for the second half. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/06/1977
Description: Women softball teams practices. Interview with man who plays on the women's softball team. Mix of wild sound and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/06/1976
Description: Silent footage of firemen entering a house on fire and a person on a stretcher. Interview with Fire division chief about the money that was found in the house. Silent footage of men loading bags of money into the back of a truck. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Fire last week in a Medford house. One million dollars in cash was found among the rubble."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/12/1979
Description: Footage of a demonstration against psychiatrists and mental health practices. Background noise.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/30/1976
Description: Silent footage of an office and books of marriage records. Interview with a man about name changing regulations in Massachusetts. More silent b-roll of the records office. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Supreme Court ruling yesterday that persons may change their names and use whatever names they choose for themselves."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/05/1977
Description: Interview with a man about the women working construction in the basement of the Boston Center for the Arts. Interview with a woman who is working there and with a woman who runs the works program. Reporter closing standup. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Women in jobs you wouldn't expect to find them in."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/11/1977
Description: B-roll Footage of Stockbridge streets and people. Shot of Norman Rockwell art for sale. People gathered outside the church, the casket arrives and is carried in past onlookers. More footage of people and the town. Shot of the hearse. End shot a close-up of one of Rockwell's paintings. Wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/12/1978
Description: Blank image with reporter voice over about Norman Rockwell's funeral and the town he lived in. Brief shot of people lined up outside the church as the casket is carried in and a shot of the church bells as they ring. Followed by blank image with reporter voice over. Sound drops out for a few seconds near the end. Sound. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/12/1978
Description: Footage of houses around Stockbridge and the town. B-roll of reporter interviewing a man. Blank image with reporter voice over. Interview with one of the townspeople, Ed Lock, who posed for one of Rockwell's paintings. Blank image with reporter voice over. Sound. This is 2 of 3 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Norman Rockwell dies early this a.m. We go to Stockbridge where he lived and talk with some of the people who knew him, including some of his models."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/09/1978
Description: Exterior footage of adult bookstores in Boston's Combat Zone, with close ups on the signs in the windows and ending with a shot of two magazines, Chic and Hustler. Interview with assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Court Decision [regarding] combat zone bookstore [rules in their favor] - plus interview with Larry (hustler) Flynt, and assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1977
Description: Interview with Larry Flynt about pornography. Closing reporter standup. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Court Decision [regarding] combat zone bookstore [rules in their favor] - plus interview with Larry (hustler) Flynt, and assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1977
Description: Shot down the table of kids getting ready to start the pie eating contest followed by shots of kids eating pie without their hands. More footage of kids eating pie with and without their hands. Footage speeds up at the very end of the reel. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Blueberry Pie Eating Contest at the Community Boat House."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/19/1978
Description: Footage of man in a wheelchair and people registering for the race. Interview with someone who helped organize the event. The start of the race. Interview with the injured cop who everyone is running for. Pops in the sountrack. Footage of runners and cheering crowd. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Police Marathon - Mini marathon held to benefit injured Sudbury Cop."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/29/1978
Description: Footage of different crew teams and individuals rowing in the Head of the Charles Reggata. Men and women teams. Wild sound. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/17/1976
Description: Begins with a reporter voice over with no picture. Interview with animal technologist Carla Skinder about Smoke the seal and why she has to be driven to Maine instead of swimming like Andre. This is reel 1 of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/22/1978
Description: Footage of a seal in a cage, Smoke, being loaded into the New England Aquarium van. The truck drives away. Reporter, Roger Goodrich, closing standup in front of the seal enclosure at the New England Aquarium. Sound. This is reel 2 of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/22/1978
Description: Aerial footage of a beach, a man walking through the wood and then on the beach with a bow, and interview with the man who shot the deer. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Filming with man who killed largest deer in state's history- with a bow."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/11/1976
Description: Footage of cars driving down a very snowy highway. Plow trucks. A man trying to dig his car out of the snow. An ambulance drives by and footage of men loading a person into an ambulance. Footage of the runway and a plane at Logan airport. Wild sound, b-roll.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/20/1978
Description: Silent b-roll footage of camels and some llamas in the snow. Some wild sound in the middle.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/06/1976
Description: Silent footage of a snow sculpture of Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock on top of a dog house. "Bryant" is written in the snow.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/08/1977
Description: Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) takeover. Exteriors of building with feminist graffiti on walls. Men outside of the building. Women entered building.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/08/1971
Description: B-roll of painters Karen Ross, a Teacher, and Mary Krause, a museum student painting a mural called "Leaves and Links." Interview with a man about why the art was comissioned. Interview with Ross about the artwork. Reporter stand-up. Sound and wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/11/1978
Description: Men gather 35mm film and papers and burn them in a dumpster. Footage includes film being wound into the fire from the reels, close ups of burning reels. Interview with one of the police officers. Mix of sound and wild sound. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Boston Police Department burns 14 reels of what they term "obscene" films."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/26/1976
Description: Interviews with police officers about how they determine what is obscene, connections between the mob and pornography, and their personal morality. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Boston Police Department burns 14 reels of what they term "obscene" films."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/26/1976