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Blizzard second day

Description: Blizzard of '78. Snow falling and blowing. People digging out on Western Avenue. Plow on Storrow Drive. Chains on truck tires. Students and dogs on Harvard Square streets blanketed with snow. Cross-country skiers and people on snowshoes. Shots inside the news van, with radio reports on blizzard in the background. People trudge along Mt. Auburn St. and Mass. Avenue in Cambridge; some carry provisions on sleds. Massachusetts Avenue street sign. Man shovels out storefront. Deep snow banks. Tractor trailer jackknifed on Mass Ave. bridge over Charles River. People wait in line in front of White Hen Pantry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1978

Cambridge, MA

Description: Pedestrians standing on street corner, walking down sidewalk, and crossing the street in Harvard Square. Young people being interviewed in group around a park bench on the Cambridge Common. Person holding a caterpillar.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/1968

Car dealers, NOW accounts

Description: Libon Motors Volkswagen dealer on Western Avenue in Allston. New and used VWs on lot. Window sticker with itemized price. Inside showroom at Porter Chevrolet. “OK” used car lot near Fresh Pond, Cambridge. Coolidge Bank in Harvard Square. Cool-O-Mat automated teller machines (ATMs). Suffolk Franklin Bank. Boylston-Fairfield branch of Shawmut Bank in Back Bay. Sign for NOW checking account paying 5% interest at Home Savings Bank.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1978

Certified December 1994

Description: December 1994 “Primavera” by Robert Mack Shots of a farmer’s market, a garden, plant life, insect life. Shots of a farm, houses, people swimming in a lake, a church, grassy fields, people repainting a house, a bridge over a lake, a clocktower. Classical music plays over all of this. Noise in the image at the end. “Where is One Kendall Square?” by Diane Bloom Woman (Laurie Tressler) gets directions from vendor at Downtown Crossing to get to Kendall Square, but once she gets into Cambridge, she can’t find it. No sound near end of program “Seventh Skin” by Simone Halilicka Shots of what look like pieces from a museum. Abstract artwork, sculptures (of objects and abstracts) in various media, pictures of people (some nudes). Includes footage of woman holding video camera, a woman’s white dress, a woman’s bare feet. Classical music plays over all this. “Square Impressions” by Alexander Koch Survey of life around Harvard Square. Special focus on street entertainers: puppeteers and musician. Various Cambridge locations, Kendall Square, Harvard Square, Philips Brooks House, Central Square Farmers Market, St. Paul’s Parish
Various Cambridge locations, Kendall Square, Harvard Square, Philips Brooks House, Central Square Farmers Market, St. Paul’s Parish
Talent:Laurie Tressler, Mike Fortin, Joe Bead, Alice Wolf, Alex Cohn, Karmu (Edgar Warner)
Collection: CCTV
Date Created: 2/14/2008

Certified November 1989

Description: November 1989 Segment Produced by Hong Shen Footage of a band called Agent 13. They perform at a club, some people dance. Sound briefly cuts out near the end, twice. Segment Produced by Richard Alevizos Music video for song, “All the Nations Like Banana.” Shots of different people eating bananas. Segment Produced by Jonathan Adams A man refinishes a wooden table. “Importing and Exporting for the Entrepreneur” by Leon Zurawicki (c) 1989 (and William Murphy) Coverage of a lecture where Mike Fortin and Joe Bead (of Double E Company, Brockton) talk about introducing a product to the European market. “Interview with Alice Wolf” by Jessa Piaia Produced by Jesse Piaia City Councilor Alice Wolf talks about upcoming election issues: housing, negative side effects of development, underfunded services. Segment Produced by William Bones Shots of Cambridge, Magazine Street, churches. Dana Park, KLH Child Development Center, a Shell gas station, another park area. U2’s “Trip Through Your Wires” plays over this. “Delta Flight 589” by David Grant A boy (Alex Cohn) sits in a chair and pretends to be an airline pilot. - Segment Produced by Myrna Kustin Shots of Philips Brooks House sign, children’s paintings, pictures of children, some colored very brightly with computer. Interviews with staff members of Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program, interspersed with shots of youth art. “Karmu, Healer” Produced by Bill Linkow Profile of Karmu (Edgar Warner), psychic healer, hosted by one of his patients, Todd Murphy. Ground Zero productions. December 1988. “Mondays We Go to the Farmer’s Market” Produced by Noha Applebaum Profile of the Central Square Farmer’s Market. Customers and vendors speak. Segment Produced by Judy Bousquin People walking by on the sidewalk. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” plays over this. Segment Produced by Bryson Dean Person playing piano, intercut with shots of nature. Segment Humana from St. Paul Produced by Brian Thompson, Edited by Michael Megna Profile of the St. Paul parish. Brief discussion of church programs, some interviews with churchgoers. Various Cambridge locations, Kendall Square, Harvard Square, Philips Brooks House, Central Square Farmers Market, St. Paul’s Parish
Various Cambridge locations, Kendall Square, Harvard Square, Philips Brooks House, Central Square Farmers Market, St. Paul’s Parish
Talent:Laurie Tressler, Mike Fortin, Joe Bead, Alice Wolf, Alex Cohn, Karmu (Edgar Warner)
Collection: CCTV
Date Created: 3/16/2008

Women's Lib. and Louise Bruyn

Description: Women in Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) that they took over and renamed the "Boston Women's Center." Men outside the building trying to talk to the women and get in the building. Huge crowd of students outside the building offer support. Harvard Square environs. Rally at Holyoke Center and Harvard Yard. Group of students criticize the women's building takeover. Harvard police break up a rally outside the taken over building and make announcements over megaphone. Harvard administration official leaves papers at the building. Riverside resident holds press conference about her connection to the takeover and her complaints against the city, especially police violence. People getting food from a lunch truck. Several takes of reporter standup. Women go in and out of building. loading things into vans. Two women kiss in front of building. Mailman tries to deliver mail, women refuse it, and discuss it with him. Outtake of reporter standup. Friends of Louise Bruyn Walk for Peace on the Cambridge Common and Beacon Hill. Louis Bruyn is a woman who walked from her home in Newton, Mass. to Washington, D.C. to protest the Vietnam War in 1971. Priest prays with the crowd. Massachusetts legislators address the crowd in support of their cause.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1971