Description: Leader: P1 School Hours #6998 1/13/74 (shot 1/12); Silent footage of students inside a school. A bus stop picks up kids in the dark. Interview with Boston school superintendent William J. Leary about daylight savings and children safety. [More of the interview with Leary in Acc. 2394.01808]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/12/1974
Description: Leader: P1 School Imbalance Feature (Holland Sch.) #7069 1/21/74; Exterior footage of the John P. Holland School. Interview with a woman (Miss O'Brien) about how the school district balances the student populations of the schools. A teachers writes on a chalkboard, students listen and participate in class, a teacher reads to the students, a girl hands out cookies to her classmates. More of the interview with O'Brien about how the Holland school opened the year racially balanced but changed through the year as families moved. More classroom footage.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/21/1974
Description: Leader: Event #12 - P1 School Indictments #10383 11/1/74; FBI officers walk a young man in handcuffs into an elevator, FBI sign, and men (FBI agents or federal prosecutors) answers phones and working at desks. Interview with a federal prosecutor about indictments for the violence in the schools arising from school desegregation.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 School Remodeling Boston #9587 8/8/74"; Girls Latin School exterior. Silent footage of men replacing toilets and old desks; piles of outdated equipment. Interview with a man (Mr. Galileo) about the importance of outward appearances in helping parents feel secure in sending their kids to a new school. Albert Palmer School exterior. Men fixing pipes and electric problems. Chet Curtis reporter standup about the promises from officials to have all the school updates completed by Labor Day. "
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/08/1974
Description: Leader: P2 School Comm. #6747 12/10; Mix of silent and sound footage of a Boston school committee meeting where the racial imbalance law is discussed.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/10/1973
Description: Reporter standup about recent bombings and particularly a bomb that went off at the Seabrook post office the night before. Silent b-roll of police inspecting damage to the building. Interview with a police officer about arriving at the post office after a bomb went off. Interview with a man about what it is like to look for a bomb after you have received a warning and how big it was. Reporter voiceover about a temporary trailer that is to be used as a post office. Interview with a man about what postal services will be provided while the building is being rebuilt. Confirms that no mail was destroyed in the blast and no people were injured. Interview with a man who received the bomb warning. Shot of post office with reporter voice over about the damage. B-roll of reporter interviewing people, and people using the new mail trailer. Reporter closing standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1976
Description: Reporter voice over about the town of Seabrook. Interview with a man who says that a majority of the residents of Seabrook favor the nuclear power plant. Footage of the town, traffic on the road, entering Seabrook sign, businesses throughout town, trucks on the road, entrance to the construction site, interview cutaway, and construction work. Reporter voice-over with black image. Interview with a man from the town who believes that most people in town don't want the plant. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "This is a neighborhood report about the town that doesn't want the nuclear power plant."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/25/1976
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 New England Aquarium representative about their efforts to help baby seals and release them back into the wild. A woman tries to feed a baby seal from a bottle. People hold a baby seals outside in front of the Aquarium. A baby seal learns how to crawl. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976