Description: "Leader: "P2 Edaville RR Saves Energy #6852 12/25/73"; Reporter voiceover about a Festival of Light at the Edaville Railroad run on an antigue steam powered generator in order to comply with President Nixon's request for people to not light ornamental lights due to the energy crisis. Interview with with a man from the railroad. Silent b-roll of the christmas light display. Bob Windsor reporter standup about the steam locomotion power source. Outtakes include more of the interview with the man from the railroad, the light display, the steam trains during the day, and reporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/25/1973
Description: News Conference with Dr. Kenneth Edelin after he was acquitted of performing an illegal abortion, which had done in 1973. Reporter standup in front of the Suffolk County courthouse. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/06/1976
Description: Dr. Kenneth Edelin, who was acquitted of performing an illegal abortion, walking down a hallway surrounded by reporters and exterior shots of hospitals around Boston. Mix of wild sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/03/1975
Description: Interview with researcher Dave Sicilia who was commissioned to prepare a perspective for the Thomas Edison Centennial. History of Thomas Edison and the early electricity in Boston. Old stock footage of Edison and Boston. Reporter voice-over through reel. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/20/1986
Description: "Leader: "P1 Edison Meeting #7923 4/16/74"; Silent footage of a meeting of the Boston Edison Company including shots of graphs and a picture of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth. A man speaks to the group about returning the Pilgrim Plant to operation, consumer complaints about high rates, oil prices, and their fight to remove the fuel adjustment clause."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/16/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Edison Meeting #7835 4/8/74"; Consumer group Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (MECA) protesting Boston Edison. MECA asked Edison to launch investigation of the oil companies and allow a member of MECA to be involved. Edison told them no. Reporter Natalie Jacobson interviews Allen Davis (director of public relations for Edison) and a woman from MECA. Silent b-roll of the Edison building, interviews, and members of MECA on the street. Followed by outtakes which include more of the interview with Davis, he is interrupted by a man from MECA and they have an argument about energy prices and profits on camera; more interviews with members of MECA; reporter standup and voiceover outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/08/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Education N/C #7203 2/3/74"; News conference by the City Wide Educational Coalition on the plan for school integration. They urge anyone with questions about the redistricting plan to contact them and state that they will be an information center for anything related to the busing plan."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/03/1974
Description: Leader: P2 Education Conference #6997 1/12/74; A seminar for educators about the quality of life for students in Boston held at the Camp Resources Center in Dorchester. Silent footage of a man speaking to an audience in front of a banner that reads The School Committee of the City of Boston: A Quality of Life Conference. B-roll of the audience. Interview with one of the speakers, Dr. Pamela Cantor, about teaching methods. Mix of silent and sound footage of the event and more of the interview with Cantor. Unrelated footage of an interview with Boston school superintendent William J. Leary. [This footage belongs with Acc. 2394.01806]
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/12/1974
Description: "Leader: "P2 Egg Farmer 8/4/74 #9556"; Silent footage of a teenage boy carrying a bucket of chicken feed to a hen house in the woods. Feeds the chickens and counts them. Another boy with a cardboard box full of chicks. Car with "Hillside Poultry Farm Marblehead" written on it in the driveway. Interview with farmer Emerson Brown about how the rising cost of feed means a rising cost in eggs and meat. Silent footage of Brown feeding chickens in cages and pouring feed in a bucket. Mary McKay reporter standup about the drought in the midwest and rising cost of feed is raising the cost of eggs. Outtakes more b-roll footage of the farm, turkeys, chickens, and interview with Brown."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/04/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Eisenstadt N.C #7028 1/16/74; Silent of a prison exterior and interior; shot of the Suffolk County Jail sign; a shot gun and several guns with tags in storage. Suffolk County Sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt news conference.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/16/1974