Description: Silent b-roll footage of camels and some llamas in the snow. Some wild sound in the middle.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/06/1976
Description: Silent footage of people enjoying nice weather includes shots of people sitting on a pier, a young girl on her father's shoulders, crowds walking by the water, and people lined up at a street cart.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/12/1976
Description: Footage of a neighborhood covered in snow, a man with a snowblower on the sidewalk, and a close up to snow on trees. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Neighborhood scenes after a snowstorm. Cars drive on the roads. Plow comes through. People walk down the sidewalk and scrape ice off their cars. Silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1976
Description: Shot of a map, seismograph and other equipment, a man explains some data, and an interview with the man about the history of earthquakes in New England and the Chinese's ability to predict earthquakes. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Last night, in Candia, NH, there was a small quake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale/this is a head with someone from the Weston Observatory about this second quake within a week."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Footage of police lined up and awaiting orders, construction workers on the job, and police marching down the road. Wild sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "More than 100 cops showed up at the site of the recent trouble because they expected more. It never happened. However, there was a court hearing today in conjunction with this story."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/30/1976
Description: Boston School Committee meeting, with Mayor Kevin White in attendance, where he discusses school desegregation and states his support for the recently elected school committee. Says Judge Arthur Garrity should cede some control to that body.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/11/1976
Description: Sign for Wrentham State School, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Exteriors of the school. Trainees exercise and play in the school. People tour the school grounds. Cuts of footage of a press conference about the plans for Wrentham State School. Interview with a doctor about whether the additional funding will improve the lives of the trainees. Mix of wild sound and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Special summarizing several top news stories from 1975. Topics include budget cuts, desegregation policies, Carson Beach racial violence, Mayor Kevin White's re-election, fire deaths, Mohammand Ali at Harvard, Governor Dukakis, Charlestown busing demonstrations, Susan Saxe, Dr. Kenneth Edlein. Footage includes traffic driving through flooded roads and rain, baseball, workers trying to dig out flooded drains and plow flooded roads, riots in Carson beach, police and hurt people, reporters crowding around Susan Saxe being arrested, Dr. Edelin walking through the courthouse, Muhammand Ali speaking at Harvard, stills of a man, aerial view of the countryside, shot of a city street, reporter stand-ups, shots of research equipment, prescription bottles, a welfare demonstration, Mayor White speaking, fire damaged homes, shots of politicians and personalities, a large ship, a barking dog, Princess Ann on a Horse, boxes of Coors beer, cars in the snow. Damaged mag track causes volume to drop or sound to drop out completely in sections. Edited footage, but sound and picture are separate. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. Slug: "1/1/75: Year Ender 1975, Taibbi for 1/1/75 air". [Airdate on slug 1975, but all of the footage is from 1975 so airdate should be 1/1/76]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/01/1976
Description: Story about a football player from Harvard, Andrew Poupolo, who was stabbed in a fight over a wallet that was stolen by prostitutes. He went into a coma and died one month later. The police has cracked down on the Combat Zone since the murder. Footage of the alley where he was stabbed, the hospital he was brought to, the Combat Zone at night, and police patrolling the street. Interview with a man about why this homicide case is getting priority. Reporter voice-overs, and reporter standups. Poor image quality. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976