Description: Interview with Governor Michael Dukakis on the proposed Massachusetts budget. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: No parking signs, meters, cars in a parking lot, and a subway train going by. Silent footage of EPA Hearing on the Boston Transit Control Plan. Interview with a man who wants to encourage the use of public transportation. Reporter standup. Governor Dukakis speaking about reducing the use of the automobile. Interview with a man who thinks that people will resist mandatory regulations. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975
Description: Students enter East Boston High School. Police stand outside the school. Mix of silent and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: News Conference with Dr. Kenneth Edelin after he was acquitted of performing an illegal abortion, which had done in 1973. Reporter standup in front of the Suffolk County courthouse. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Dr. Kenneth Edelin, who was acquitted of performing an illegal abortion, walking down a hallway surrounded by reporters and exterior shots of hospitals around Boston. Mix of wild sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/03/1975
Description: Interview with researcher Dave Sicilia who was commissioned to prepare a perspective for the Thomas Edison Centennial. History of Thomas Edison and the early electricity in Boston. Old stock footage of Edison and Boston. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/20/1986
Description: Footage of children and older women at tables doing art projects with fabric. Women cutting fabric and giving them to the children. Interview with an 87 year-old woman about how she enjoys being with the children. Interview with several children about how they like working with the older women. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1973
Description: Cuts of a press conference held by mayor Kevin White and deputy mayor Clarence "Jeep" Jones. Jones introduces a newly appointed member of their administration. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Footage of the highway in Portland taken from the inside of a moving car with Elvis Presley playing on the radio. Shots of an Elvis concert ticket, a sign at the box office with hours when they will be open for refunds, people at the box office, and shots around the empty arena. Interviews with two members of the local Elvis fanclub. Shots of Elvis records. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "[Elvis] Presley has a concert scheduled for Portland tonight and tomorrow, but [died] yesterday. This is a folo featuring Jack Nicholson of the Civic Center and the president of the local Presley fan club."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/17/1977
Description: Footage taken from the inside of a moving car with a radio station dedication to Elvis Presley playing in the background. Interview with Jack Nicholson of the Civic Center. Some b-roll of the reporter, Jorge Quiroga, talking to the president of the local Presley fanclub. Reporter standup from the seats in the empty arena. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "[Elvis] Presley has a concert scheduled for Portland tonight and tomorrow, but [died] yesterday. This is a folo featuring Jack Nicholson of the Civic Center and the president of the local Presley fan club."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/17/1977
Description: Footage of game with cutaways to cheerleaders, crowd, scoreboard, and bench. Silent
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/16/1974
Description: Footage of traffic on the expressway. Shots of a semi truck on its side and a crushed car. Interview with the driver of the truck. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/06/1976
Description: Footage includes people marching with signs and chanting outside of Faneuil Hall. Interview with a man who objects to Massachusetts calling this the month of Jerusalem, and an interview with a man who thinks that the Governor is demonstrating religious tolerance. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Demonstration... against the gov. [Governor] proclaiming Jerusalem month (March). They demoed outside Faneuil Hall, where inside, the Jewish Community Council Folk were holding a news conference. We didn't do the news conference, but did interviews with both sides."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/01/1977
Description: Story about grocery stores in the Boston area joining the boycott of California grapes called for by the United Farmworker's Union. Footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voice over about the lack of California table grapes in certain grocery store chains. Cut to a man from the American Farm Bureau Federation discussing the harmful tampering of food markets by retailers that are removing a certain product from their inventory for social reasons. Back to footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voiceover about the response from a store executive that they are reacting to requests from customers that the store join in the grape boycott. Reporter standup. Silent b-roll of customers looking at produce, a pan of the produce isle, a woman weighing tomatoes and a close up of a fruit tray with a sign that reads, "This tray contains artificial fruit. If you wish you may order one with real fruit." Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1973
Description: Ceremony for new correction officers, including three women. One woman speaks about working with male guard not replacing them. Silent footage of interview with man. Exteriors of the Plymouth County Court House in Brockton. Man speaks about Massachusetts Department of Corrections' position on which jobs women can be assigned. Women correction officers assert their capability to do the jobs and work within the system. Attorney Siskin, who filed a suit against female correction officers, speaks about the differences in physical capability between men and women. Additional silent footage of people speaking to the press and of the ceremony. Additional footage from interview with Attorney Siskin and press conference with after the ceremony with female correction officers and Department of Corrections Commissioner (sound gets a little out of sync in master, but was fixed for web video). Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/22/1974
Description: Story #1557. Women in costumes perform skits. Closeup on a sign that reads "International Tribunal on Abortion, Contraception and Forced Sterilization, October 21-22, New York City." B-roll of the people walking around the fair. Skits include a "dating game" spoof and satire of the office girl and businessman. Closeups on feminist buttons and signs. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1972
Description: B-roll of a park, some buildings, traffic, and people walking down the sidewalk in a neighborhood. Interview with a woman about the community. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/06/1976
Description: Cuts from fire fighter awards ceremony. Fire fighter in dress uniform walk on stage. Man recounts heroic deeds of honorees. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Story #6670. Footage of football game, the band on the sideline, and scoreboard. Wild Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/01/1973
Description: Foreign students crowded together in a hall for registration. Silent. Slug: "Northeastern Students"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/18/1978