Description: Silent footage of some guns on a board. Shots of people watching the Governor's press conference, and the governor speaking from different angles. Followed by sound footage outtakes from the Governor's press conference on the need for more gun control. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/13/1974
Description: Interview with Dr. Eggers about solar energy. Silent footage of solar panels on the school. Reporter standup followed by cuts. Outtakes include more of the interview with Dr. Eggers, several takes of McKay's standup, and silent b-roll of the solar panels on the building and models of the project. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/19/1974
Description: Story #10079. Reel begins with reporter voice over, followed by an interview with Mr. Jacobs, the Executive director of San Francisco's Planning and Urban Renewal Association, about urban renewal in Boston and his view of the city. Silent b-roll of various buildings and signs around the city. Reporter standup, in which he explains that about 2000 housing and development experts from around the country are in Boston for a meeting to discuss urban renewal and the impact of the 1974 Housing and development act on the nation. Silent b-roll of people at the conference (footage is a bit dark and blue), and more silent footage of buildings around the city. Reporter closing voice over. The rest of the reel consists of outtakes. Outtakes include silent footage of the Urban renewal conference meeting, housing and various street shots around Boston. Sound footage includes the rest of the interview with Mr. Jacobs and unused takes of the reporter's voice overs and standups. High contrast, image a little dark in places. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/01/1974
Description: Footage of the exterior of Wellesley High School and students coming out the doors and getting on the buses. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1974
Description: Silent b-roll of house and a neighborhood. Interview with a woman, Mrs. Todd, about how living in an integrated neighborhood is a value to her children, so she is staying. Sound footage of her son, Steve Todd, playing the piano. Silent b-roll of Mrs. Todd and her family. Interview with Jim Todd, who also wants to stay in Dorchester. Interview with 8 year old Steve. He sees advantage in black and white children attending the same school. Silent footage of children walking down the sidewalk. Interview with Louise Day Hicks. She says her office has been receiving several calls from people who say that they will move if their kids will be bussed out of the neighborhood. Silent footage of neighborhood streets, and cutaways to Mike Taibbi. Footage of the neighborhood with reporter voice over about people selling their homes in Hyde Park. Interview with a woman who is against bussing and says she will move or home school. Silent shot of Taunton Ave. sign. Shot of road sign at corner of Fairmont Ave and Summit St. in Hyde Park with reporter standup about homes for sale in this area. Reporter voiceover about Hyde Park parents who wish to move. Interview with a realtor in Hyde Park. Silent shots of "For Sale" signs, and a moving shot down a street, a group of children walking, some children playing, several shots of street signs, shots of houses and schools. Interview with a man who is against bussing, but doesn't want to move. Silent b-roll of reporter at table with man, his wife, and son. Interview with man's son, Richard, who in 10 years old and will have to be bussed in the fall. Silent shots of family around the table. Reporter standup about parents who plan to stay and defy the bussing law. Silent b-roll of family around the table, shots of Richard and his sister. Interview with Richard's mom. More silent b-roll of family, houses, and a school. Mix of sound and silent. Reel 1of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/25/1974
Description: Interview with Mrs. Todd about the Racial Imbalance law, why she agrees with it, how it will affect her family, and organizations around Boston that are concerned about racial tension in the city. Interview with Jim Todd about how White flight may affect real estate values, how the changes with bussing will affect his family. Interview with Steve Todd, 8-years old, about how he feels about being bussed to another school in the fall. Footage of Steve Todd playing the piano. Reporter standup. Interview with a man in Hyde Park who is against bussing and plans to defy the law. Interview with his wife, Nancy, about talk around the neighborhood about plans to move to avoid bussing and her personal opposition to the law. Silent shots of the family. Mix of sound and silent. Reel 2 of 2
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/25/1974
Description: Interviews with women on discrimination against women in the Boston workforce, especially by the city government led by Mayor Kevin White. One woman explains the problems with the current state of maternity leave. B-roll of women's lib demonstration held by City Women for Action at Government Center. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/22/1974
Description: Story #9759. Demonstration on the 54th anniversary of women's suffrage at Government Center. Female rock band plays music, women dance. Closeups on feminist literature. Interviews with women on the Equal Right Amendment, the women's liberation movement, and progress towards women's equality. Additional sound and silent footage of band playing to large crowd. Interview with woman on the accomplishments of the League of Women Voters. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1974
Description: Silent b-roll of women's lib demonstration, with many feminist signs, including some demanding free childcare and abortions. Woman speaks to the press about women's lib causes. She argues that the women's movement is against the involvement of corporations, like those who held the fair their demonstrating against. In an unrelated section of the film, a man makes statement about his petition against energy policy that allow oil prices in Massachusetts skyrocket. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/18/1974
Description: Governor Sargent speaks at Women's Lib hearing, promising to work to end discrimination against women in the workforce. Woman addresses hearing, explaining pay discrimination she witnessed and experiences at the Boston Redevelopment Authority before she quit and began working at the Municipal Women's Project. Silent b-roll of audience at hearing. Other people address the hearing condemning discrimination against women. Additional footage of Governor Sargent's speech. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/10/1974
Description: Interview with Bread and Roses restaurant co-owner on opening a restaurant run by women and for women to be comfortable. Women eat in the restaurant. Women cooking in the kitchen. Closeup on sign "Women Working." Reporter standup. Closeup on Bread & Roses sign and chalkboard with menu. Additional footage of women cooking, doing dishes, eating in the restaurant. Exteriors of the restaurant. Additional footage of interview with co-owner. Several takes of reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/07/1974
Description: Story #9371. Council hearing on a Gay Rights Bill, which was defeated. Interview with a lesbian, Ellen, about why many gay people have not come forward with evidence of discrimination. Silent b-roll of a council hearing. Interview with Councilor George Wells, who thinks that a discrimination ordinance is unnecessary and condoning an illegal act. More of the interviews with Ellen and Mr. Wells. Reporter voice over, different takes, followed by silent b-roll of the hearing. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/16/1974
Description: Silent footage of paintings that had been recovered in an FBI sting. Several paintings were recovered including some by Andrew and N.C. Wyeth after being stolen from the Woolworth Estates in Maine the previous May. This is silent edited footage of the paintings followed by outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/19/1974
Description: Slug: "1/1/74: Year End Chelsea Fire". Footage includes, several buildings on fire, firemen fighting the fire, national guard leaving a truck and walking through the fire aftermath, Ted Kennedy and others tour the aftermath, interview with a woman (Charlene) who lost her house, more shots of the fire and firemen, a man asking people to leave the area, a red cross shelter, aerial view of the fire, people in a shelter and a nun sorting through donated goods, Charlene walking down the street, bulldozers clearing the wreckage of buildings, People loading belongings into a station wagon and driving away, army trucks, National Guard men assembled on the sidewalk and marching into the Massachusetts National Guard building (which is being used by the Red Cross), more of the interview with Charlene about her experience the day of the fire. Mix of sound, silent, and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/01/1974
Description: Artists painting images on windows. Footage of people painting and shots of the different murals. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/05/1974
Description: Story #8310. Silent daytime footage of a residential building on fire, firemen fighting the fire, crowd on the street watching, and the fire aftermath.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/21/1974
Description: Women stand outside the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. building and hand flyers to people as they go in. Shots of the building, one of the women's N.O.W. button, and the flyers that they are handing out. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/08/1974