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
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
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
Description: Footage of a ship and a crowd on the deck. Man representing the Fund for Animals discusses the ship and the clubbing of baby seals. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/21/1979
Description: Footage of a seal on a beach with police looking on from the road and one officer on the beach. Wild Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Missing seal, at first thought to be missing from the aquarium, but later found to be from Canada or parts unknown, is at the Amelia Earhardt Dam."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/27/1979
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
Description: Police officer in front of door to home. Crowd on street. Stretcher with body bag carried out door and down stairs through crowd on street and loaded into hearse. Shot of cars in street. Footage is a little dark with wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/04/1979
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
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 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: Representative Thomas McGee elected House Speaker 1979-1980.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1979
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
Description: Joseph Timilty campaigns in East Boston in mayoral race. B-roll of support signs for Kevin White and Joseph Timilty. An East Boston man denounces Kevin White for mayor. Timilty greets supporters at Maverick Square outside T station. Talks about his campaign strategy. Says main issues for the East Boston neighborhood are water and sewer costs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1979
Description: People leaving meeting at Boston University. Interview with Howard Zinn on vote to remove John Silber as BU president. Zinn says acts of conscience and criticism of administration result in retribution. He calls for a change in the situation at BU. Interview with John Silber, who says BU is a place of debate and academic freedom without repression. Faculty assembly votes (456 to 215) to ask Board of Trustees to dismiss Silber. Press conference held by psychology professor Joe Speisman, who speaks on behalf of faculty. Other professors, student leader Maureen Sultzer, and District 65 labor union representative Carol Yorman speak about their support of the vote to remove Silber from office and other related matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1979
Description: Silent footage of different drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/30/1979
Description: This is footage of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem speaking in a panel format to a crowded theater. Some snippets of the dialog can be heard, but this is an edited peice and the women are cut off mid-sentence throughout. Mix of sound and silent. High contrast. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Women for economic justice - Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem on women in the business world."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/29/1979
Description: Interview with Paul Tsongas about the Iranian Revolution and how this affects the United States Foriegn Policy, including his hope that America will be able to get over its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1979