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Oil delivery

Description: Home heating oil delivery by Gibbs truck. Driver pulls hose from truck, connects to intake pipe on house. Meter in truck reads 146 gallons. Hose retracts and rewinds. Delivery slip is generated from meter, placed in mailbox. Truck drives away. Exteriors of houses and apartment buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979

Orr's number retired

Description: Bruins retire Bobby Orr's number 4 in center ice ceremony at Boston Garden. Raise number to rafters. Crowd cheers relentlessly. Johnny Bucyk helps make presentation. Bobby dons jersey and makes a thank-you and farewell speech.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1979

Outside South Boston High

Description: Outside South Boston High School. Buses arrive. Mostly black students exit school and board buses. Police cruisers and motorcycles stationed in front of school. Interview with headmaster Jerome Wynegar who says despite some trouble and a severe lack of students, classes will go on, and faculty will try to keep up morale. He says “…kids come here to learn, believe it or not.” Several takes of reporter standup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979

Robert Foster on MBTA

Description: Video starts with people speaking over color bars. B-roll of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority advisory board meeting. Interview with Robert Foster, chair of MBTA. He is requesting a larger operating budget. He discusses the work done by the MBTA and their attempts develop a better relationship with the advisory board. He speaks of plans for transportation demands during Pope John Paul II's visit. They shoot cutaways. Interview with Ed Novakoff, advisory board representative from Brookline, who complains about green line LRVs, and does not support giving the MBTA a larger operating budget. Several takes of reporter standup in the MBTA lot, with buses in the background.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1979

Route 1

Description: Route 1 near junction of Revere, Malden and Saugus. Shot from moving vehicle. Additional shots of traffic from the side of the road, both oncoming and receding automobiles. Close-up on dilapidated surface of road and crumbling concrete bridge parts.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/11/1979

Rowers on Charles River

Description: Rowers on Charles River near Harvard, practicing for regatta. One-, five-, and nine-person shells. All male and all female crews. Exteriors of boat house. Florida Institute of Technology team bus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1979

Seiji Ozawa interview

Description: Interview with Seiji Ozawa at the start of his seventh season as music director and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He talks about his first visit to America to study at Tanglewood, which started his relationship with the BSO. He talks about the character and tradition of the orchestra and Boston's pride in it — just as for the Red Sox. They shoot establishing shots and cutaways for editing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979

South Boston anti-busing photos

Description: 11 B+W wire service photos of South Boston residents opposing busing. Helmet bearing legend "Southie is my home town." Man with loudspeaker in car. Van with sign flipped upside down "Boston Under Siege." "Forced busing? Never!" under three-leaf clover. South Boston Information Center and Home School Association storefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1979

Thomas McGee

Description: Representative Thomas McGee elected House Speaker 1979-1980.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1979

Timilty and Finnegan campaigning

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