Description: "Leader: "Event #33 Bentley Basketball Coach #10860 - 26 Dec 74"; Interview with the Elwood N. “Al” Shields, the basketball coach for Bentley University in Waltham, followed by silent footage of the team practicing. Color is faded."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/26/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Bi-centennial Sales #10291 10/23/74; Interview with a man (Mr. McCorgin) about bicentennial merchandise. Interview with Katherine Kane, director of Boston's bicentennial celebration, about corporate donations to the City Bicentennial committee. Silent footage of a ceremony unveiling a bicentennial medal. Reporter Bob Clinksdale standup. More of the interviews and footage of merchandise and close up of the medal. Reporter outtakes. Boston Bicentennial merchandise and logo.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/23/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Bicentennial #7910 4/15/74"; Silent footage of a man in colonial dress on a horse in the street with two mounted policemen rides to Boston City Hall and hands a scroll to another man in colonial dress. More men in colonial dress stand nearby with a crowd looking on and then they march down the street. A parade in a smaller suburb?"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/15/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Bicentennial #10524 11/16/74; Interview with Edward McColgan, director of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, about plans for the state's bicentennial celebrations. Silent b-roll of a conference held at Brandeis University by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission about events being planned in the state for the upcoming United States Bicentennial. Mary McKay reporter standup. More of the interview with McColgan, reporter outtakes, and more footage from the conference.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/16/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Bicentenial Som. #9815 9/1/74; Silent footage of men in colonial costume in Sommerville marching down the street and carrying barrels into a tower. Levi Fierce reporter standup. A man in colonial dress speaks to an audience about historical events leading to the Revolutionary War and the British perspective of the war. Silent b-roll of the audience, men playing the drums and fife, and men in costume marching. Reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/01/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Big Car Sales #9284 7/8/74; Silent footage of Cadillacs in a showroom, cars parked outside in a lot, a Thunderbird. Faded print of a car manufacturing plant. Levi Fierce reporter voiceover about big luxury cars versus compact cars. Interview with a car salesman. More silent footage of cars for sale and customers looking at new cars.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/08/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Bike Safety 5/13/74 #8221"; Police officers talk to kids about bike safety. Children walk and ride their bikes with a police car following them and commenting on their safety through a megaphone. Roger Goodrich reporter stand up about Sargent Feely's bike clinic in Newton. Interview with one of the policemen about what they are teaching."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/13/1974
Description: Leader: Bill Harrington (on ED. Reorg) #7245 2/6/74; Reporter Bill Harrington speaks to the camera about legislation to re-organize the university education system in Massachusetts.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/06/1974
Description: Leader: #8 P1 Bill Owens N.C. #10503 11/14/74; Senator William Owens press conference to announce a march and rally against institutionalized racism and to support busing to be held on Boston Commons. Owens speaks to the press about the Boston school committee, racism in education, institutionalized racism, and the planned rally. Silent b-roll of the press conference.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/14/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Billerica Jail Protest #10470 11/11/74; Inmates at Billerica House of Correction staged a protest by refusing to go to their cells. Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley statement to the press. Silent footage of the barrier in the visitor room, the prison, and the Sheriff. Roger Goodrich reporter standup. Press conference with three of the inmates about why they are protesting. They highlight the treatment of an injured inmate, objections to a barrier in the visitor room, and other mistreatment of prisoners. Sheriff Buckley speaks to the press about damage caused during the protest and an attempted escape. Reporter outtakes and b-roll of the press conference.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/11/1974