Description: "Leader: "P1 Faulty Lights 12-17-74"; Silent footage of a woman's hand holding Christmas lights, a pencil pointing to something in the light fixture, and the light's packaging."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/17/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Faye Dunaway # 7379 2/20/74; Actress Faye Dunaway in Cambridge for the Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year ceremony. Dunaway in a convertible in a parade. Part of Hasty Pudding song and dance performance; Police outside; Dunaway accepts award; empty press conference table; Dunaway answers reporter questions about The Exorcist, her time at college in Boston, and the Women's lib movement. Students on the street waiting for the parade, a marching band leads the convertible with Dunaway through the streets. More footage of the award ceremony, a Faye Dunaway look-a-like contest (with men in drag), more of the student performance.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/20/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fear of Flying #9474 7/27/74"; People board an airplane, footage out the window as the plane takes off. Interviews with people who overcame their fear of flying through a course. Pan Am flight attendants hand out badges. "Pan Am Logan's Heroes" sign. Footage of the cockpit. Silent footage of celebration with cake, drinks, and certificates handed out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/27/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Federal Bases Study #8968 6/6/74; Footage of the waterfront; cranes; buildings; an empty canal. Press conference with Hale Champion, chairman of the Commission on Federal Base Conversion. Still aerial images of closed military bases. The commission was tasked to plan for the conversion of 5 military installations for public use, including the closed Boston Naval Shipyard and Chelsea Naval Hospital. Hale discusses the the work of the Commission and their findings.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/06/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Feisty Italiana #10758"; Silent footage of performers at the Festa Italiana, an Italian cultural festival at Boston City Hall. Crowd walks with candles down the street, more silent footage of singers and musicians, women in traditional Italian dress."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/16/1974
Description: "Ceremony for new correction officers, including three women. One woman speaks about working with male guard not replacing them. Silent footage of interview with man. Exteriors of the Plymouth County Court House in Brockton. Man speaks about Massachusetts Department of Corrections' position on which jobs women can be assigned. Women correction officers assert their capability to do the jobs and work within the system. Attorney Siskin, who filed a suit against female correction officers, speaks about the differences in physical capability between men and women. Additional silent footage of people speaking to the press and of the ceremony. Additional footage from interview with Attorney Siskin and press conference with after the ceremony with female correction officers and Department of Corrections Commissioner (sound gets a little out of sync in master, but was fixed for web video). Mix of silent and sound."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/22/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fenway Inspection #7814 4/5/74"; Man inspects building with broken lock, leaky pipes, and faulty wiring. Mary McKay reporter stand up on Inspector Henry's investigation of conditions in the Fenway. Interview with a man about basic code violations building in the Peterborough and Queensbury street area. Silent b-roll of the exterior of the building, conditions inside, men looking at violations and taking notes, Peterborough and Queensbury street signs."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/05/1974
Description: "Leader: "Fenway Tenants/ Mayor White #7795 4/4/74"; Silent footage of a meeting between Mayor Kevin White and representatives of tenants from the Fenway who are facing eviction. Eviction notice, b-roll of the apartment building, "Petersbourgh" and "Queensbury" street signs, interior footage of apartments, a cockroach running across the floor. City Hall. Mike Taibbi reporter voiceover and standup about the dispute between tenants and landlords of 34 apartment buildings in the Fenway. White speaks to the press on how they are going to stop the evictions. Outtakes include apartment b-roll, more with White's press conference, reporter outtakes"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/04/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Fernandez Protest #9591 8/8/74"; Interview with a Fernandes Supermarket employee (John Isbister?) who is on strike. Protesters march with signs to the Fernandes headquarters to demand to meet with the head of the supermarket chain, Anthony Pires. Protesters gather out front. Interview with Mr. Murphy, a representative from Fernandes, about the differences between the Union and the supermarket management. Arch MacDonald reporter standup outtakes. More of the interview with the striking worker. "
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/08/1974
Description: Leader: F1 Fernandes Market Strike #7694 3/25/74; Silent footage of striking workers in the parking lot of a Fernandes supermarket; workers hold up signs and march in a circle; footage of the inside of the grocery store; empty aisles and produce bins.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/25/1974