Description: About 25 artists were found living and working in lofts in buildings by south station in violation of zoning laws. The city determined that some of the artists could continue to stay there. Interviews with a couple of the artists. Reporter voiceover. Interviews with an owner of one the buildings and with a lawyer. Reporter closing standup. B-roll of the exterior of the buildings and the interior of some of the apartments. Addition interview footage. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/31/1976
Description: Story about a group of priests from the Soviet Union who are visiting Boston through a program called Bridges for Peace. Footage of priests touring the Concord Bridge, American and Soviet priests talking, church service, reporter standup, people speaking at and attending a seminar on how churches can cooperate to help prevent nuclear war, interview with one of the Russian priests, and with an American priest on the program. Reporter voice-over throughout reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/1984
Description: One year anniversary of the Soviet Union shooting down a South Korean airplane. Overview of the incidents and theories about the United States involvement in the incident. Some video problems. Reporter voice-over throughout. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/01/1984
Description: Reporter standup in Roxbury about how Spanish speaking residents of this area are saying that the city and state neglected their needs during the recent storm. Footage of the street. People at a meeting. Sound. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Spanish speaking coalition hits lack of Spanish information during blizzard - some shots in South End"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/17/1978
Description: Shots of the crowd and Bobby Orr followed by an interview with a man in the locker room about Bobby Orr. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/21/1977
Description: Interview with tennis player Larry King about money problems with their league and draft issues. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975
Description: Interview with the man who shot the deer and b-roll of him climbing up to a tree stand and of the woods. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 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: 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 the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston. Silent footage of the crowd and the floats and people marching in the parade, followed by sound footage of the same. Shot from roofs, within the crowd, and within the parade. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/14/1976
Description: Indoor footage of a luncheon with parade officials and politicians, including Governor Mike Dukakis and Senator William M. Bulger, seated at the front. Footage of the parade includes floats and several groups of people against busing. A band singing Irish songs at the luncheon. More parade footage including marching bands and politicians. Shot of a police motorcycle on fire, followed by more parade footage. Reporter standup. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/16/1975
Description: This is a reel of cuts or outtakes from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston. Silent footage of the crowd watching the parade includes a young girl with a camera, children with balloons, babies in strollers, a group of people on a roof, children waving, and a woman with an Irish flag. Footage of the parade taken from a roof along the route, from the front of the crowd, and moving from within the parade. Sound footage of people heading towards the parade. People on the side of the road with signs selling "Irish freedom badges." More shots of people in the parade, including Governor Francis Sargent, a groups with an "England out of Ireland" banner, and a woman in a green coat. Reporter standup outtakes. Mx of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/18/1972
Description: Interview with a man advocating for a cost of living increase for state employees. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/03/1975
Description: Silent footage of hearing at the State House on state employee benefits. Speakers include the president of one of the State Unions, a teacher, and a man who is willing to go on strike. People holding signs and chanting "11% for food and rent" outside the State House and in the lobby. Police eject people from the State House, some of them fight back. One women fighting with the police and trying to get back into the building. A man calls for a march around the state house. People marching. Police lined up and the crowd marching by. More silent footage of the hearing. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975
Description: Members of the state police academy lined up, two women run out of line and into a building. One of the women driving a police car through a course. Interviews with the two women. One of the women throws a man in a combat drill followed by footage of the recruits marching into the building. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/25/1975
Description: "7:30pm Clean [See Collection Folder for partial transcript]: New healthcare bill, Commonwealth Care.” Direct feed from the Capital building. This footage is unedited and contains the entire State of the State ceremony from a few minutes before Governor Romney enters the room through adjournment about 20 minutes after the end of the speech. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/13/2005
Description: "7:30-8pm Aircheck [See Collection Folder for partial transcript]: New healthcare bill, Commonwealth Care." This is the coverage of the State of the State address that aired on WCVB including commentary by reporters Janet Wu and Anthony Everett. State of the State address by Governor Mitt Romney when he first introduced his healthcare bill, Commonwealth Care, which the national Affordable Care plan was modeled after several years later. This footage covers Romney's speech and the singing of God Bless America afterwards. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/13/1995
Description: Story on the Statue of Liberty and the history of immigration to the United States. Old footage of immigrants, workers building a railroad, and workers in factories. Shots of the statue of Liberty, old stills and footage, reporter standup, and a man commenting on immigration. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1986
Description: Footage of paintings with wild sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Art Recovered - Police recover more than $2 million in art."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/15/1979
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: Aerial footage of the snow covered city and some roads with buried cars. Silent b-roll.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/20/1978
Description: Shot of babies in beds at the hospital. Woman holding a baby. Interview with a woman who just had a baby. Shot of another hospital room. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "All the people who fooled around during the storm days in January and February are now [having babies]."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/25/1978
Description: Standup with reporter Jim Boyd in front of the Revere Beach Parkway followed by footage of cars stuck in snow and driving slowly down the road. Interview with a man in his car who is trying to get home. More footage of people stuck and trying to drive in the snow. Two more interviews with people who are stuck. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/20/1978
Description: Story on a proposed expanded student loan program for public and private institutions in Massachusetts. Reporter standup. John Silber addresses hearing, speaking in favor of private institutions. Reporter standup. Another man addresses the hearing on the banks' role in the current student loan program. Silent b-roll of Wellesley College and Holy Cross College. B-roll of the hearing at the State House. Reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/10/1973
Description: Silent b-roll of children in a classroom. A man speaks about students with weak writing skills at a news conference mixed with silent b-roll of reporters at the news conference and more b-roll of students. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/24/1976
Description: Shot of a street with reporter voice over about finding summer jobs. Interview with a woman, Simone, about why the Greater Boston Area Chamber of Commerce is involved in a student summer job program. Silent footage of a girl, 17 year old Caroline Lawhorn, working on a typewriter at the Charles Draper Laboratories in Cambridge. A young man, Jim Wong, counting money and working as a teller in Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank, exteriors of the bank. Reporter voiceover, followed by interview with Caroline Lawhorn. Reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/18/1975
Description: Footage from the opening night of the Berklee Performance Center. B-roll of patrons entering the Center and mingling in the lobby, tickets being taken, programs being handed out, and the audience seated in the auditorium. Michael Dukakis opening speech, followed by a speech by a representative from the Berklee Performance Center introducing the night's Jazz program. More footage of both speeches. Part of one of the Jazz performances, and a reading about drums, Africa, and slavery while a man plays bongo drums. Picture is shaky and unsteady throughout. The problem appears to be printed in. The picture and soundtrack were separated on the reel, but synced for the clip. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 1972...1979
Description: Silent for Studio V.O. [voice over]. Footage from the opening night of the Berklee Performance Center. Silent footage includes the audience taking their seats in the auditorium, patrons in the lobby, shots of the "coming events" board, the auditorium and lobby of the performance center, programs for that evening performance, the band playing, and close-ups on some soloists. Picture is shaky and unsteady throughout. The problem appears to be printed in. This reel is the picture, but there is no soundtrack to sync it with. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 1972...1979
Description: Reporter standup about making it easier for citizens to change their name. Footage of books of records in the Brookline office and a woman at the Vital Statistics desk. Reporter voiceover. Man discusses why it would create chaos if anyone can change their name at any time. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/25/1976
Description: Reporter standup about an increase in taxes for large gifts or estates. Interview with an accountant and interview cutaways. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Reporter voice over about a Massachusetts crackdown on people from Massachusetts going to New Hampshire to buy liquor. Interview with a man from New Hampshire who says that they are cracking down on out of state tax officials. Reporter voice over. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Footage of taxis driving down a street in Boston. Boston Police Commissioner Robert DiGrazia speaking about taxi upkeep in the city. Shots of taxis with external damage. Cut back to DiGrazia speaking about new regulations for taxi cabs. More footage of taxis sitting, shots from inside a cab, and cabs driving down the street. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/24/1976
Description: Ted Williams and others outside by a baseball field. Williams walks into a building. Interview with Williams about hitting in baseball. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/02/1978
Description: Boston neighborhood scenes. Reporter standup on the battle between the public housing tenants, Boston Housing Authority, and the Massachusetts legislature on who is responsibly for complying with Judge Garrity's law. Women at a press conference talk about cost of living. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/22/1973
Description: B-roll of suspect in the Mahoney Family Murder case, Terence Milan, entering and leaving building. Picture dark in some areas with high contrast. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/01/1976
Description: Story on how homosexuality is viewed legally, morally, and socially. Interviews with a few different men and footage from a hearing. Interviews with a gay man who doesn't feel like he is a full citizen. Throughout the reels he discusses society's view of homosexuals as immoral, why people dislike homosexuals, and homosexuality and suicide. Another man discusses the different laws that are used against homosexuals, and how most people just don't realize how many homosexuals that they know. Different women speak at a hearing about how sexuality and acts between two consenting adults should not be regulated by law, and one woman speaks about lesbians. Mix of sound and silent. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1973
Description: Interview with a gay man about stereotypes, a man about the laws against homosexuality, and a gay man on outward appearances and gay bars, followed by a few shots of transvestites. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/28/1973
Description: Silent footage of a man at a hearing demonstrating a throat clearing device on a woman, and shots of the audience.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975
Description: Story #4279. Joseph Timilty speaks about the likelihood of racial imbalance plan passing. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/10/1973
Description: Overview of Tip O'Neill's career. Interview with O'Neill on President Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War, Watergate and Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and the Contras in Nicaragua. Some static in the soundtrack. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/17/1986
Description: Footage of women swimming laps in pool, and women playing volleyball. Interview with woman from Harvard on the importance of Title IX. Interview with woman from Boston State on students who play sports while in college. B-roll of men and women swimming laps, swimming coaches at the side of the pool, big timer. Additional footage from interviews and silent cutaways of Natalie Jacobson. Footage of women rowing on the Charles river. Mix of silent, sound, and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/15/1975
Description: Slug: "12/28/73 - Tobin Bridge Feature by Bob Clinkscale." Overview of the Mystic River Bridge, also known as the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge, collapse in 1973. Footage includes shots of the collapsed section of the bridge, traffic backed up, construction crews working on the bridge, a train and a bus, aerial views of the highway, a man making a statement about weight permits for trucks, silent b-roll of cars and trucks at the bridge toll booth and on the road, shots of the gravel truck which crashed into a support causing the bridge collapse, police and firemen removing the driver's body and carrying the body bag away, aerial view of the bridge, more shots of the collapsed area of the bridge, trucks on various roads. Mix of sound, silent, and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/28/1973
Description: Story about Tom Seaver coming to the Red Sox. Seaver at a press conference, older footage of Seaver playing baseball, excerpts from Red Sox games. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/30/1986
Description: Boats on the water. Sunbathers sit on the grass along the water. Two dogs playing in the river. Highway traffic. Cars, motorcycle, station wagon towing a boat. Traffic signs near Cape Cod. Rotary sign. Traffic driving onto the Bourne Bridge. Mix of silent and wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Man speaks to the press about his role in a hearing. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/22/1973
Description: A tractor trailer drove off the road. Men at the scenes. Cones marks the spot of the accident along the highway. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: Footage of traffic on the highway, several shots of a smashed truck, broken sand bins on the side of the road, Police directing traffic. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1976
Description: University of Massachusetts meeting on the university system's budget. Man speaks about budget problems. He hopes to make his case to the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee. Overhead projector used during meeting. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975
Description: Women marching in a circle singing and carrying signs with anti-sexism slogans. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/01/1978
Description: Story on the United States Football League and a controvery over television contracts. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/29/1986
Description: Interviews with different men about vocational retraining and funding from the state. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/03/1975