Description: Newsroom of South Middlesex News. VDTs (video display terminals) outnumber electric typewriters. Wire machines. Paste-up artists crop photos with exacto knife, lay out pages. Several people smoke as they work. Computer punch tape in ribbons on floor. Man working at phototypesetting machine. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: Editor Bob Moore at South Middlesex News shows how copy is typed, formatted and corrected on VDT monitor, new electronic equipment to the newsroom. Close-up of hands on computer keyboard. He inserts numerical codes for type size, headline size, column width. “Makes for better typing…no more proofreaders…reporters love it…it lifts them psychologically.” Paper has been largely eliminated from the newsroom. Composing room jobs reduced and people retrained. Cost savings put toward buying the technology and enhancing the editorial staff. Cartoonist working in pen and ink; his drawings posted on the wall. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: House minority whip Rep. Newt Gingrich speaks at Mass. Republican Party fundraiser. He sells his book and hopes to stir the conservative movement with aggressive tactics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1989
Description: Story #9755. Silent footage of the exterior of a house, a broken door, plain clothed detectives around the house, and an older woman going in the door.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1974
Description: School buses and wagons lined up outside Newton North High School. New brick exterior of school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1979
Description: Alderman Richard McGrath runs for mayor of Newton against longtime incumbent Ted Mann.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/26/1989
Description: Short cuts of b-roll from Nicaragua. Sign for Managua. Landscapes. Cars in traffic. Soldiers outside of buildings. Handwritten signs in Spanish.
Collection: WHDH
Description: Photographer Nicholas Nixon made monthly portraits of people with AIDS, including Robert Sappenfield, showing deterioration from the disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1989
Description: Show #7 [See Collection Folder for Cue Sheet]. Episode on the program Night Shift hosted by Makeeba McCreary and Brian Vermeire about AIDS and college students. The guest are Bridgette Payette from the Boston College AIDS Awarness Committee and AIDS activist Connie Amaral. The hosts and guests discuss AIDS, education on college campuses, myths and reality of AIDS, safe sex, and other issues related to AIDS. Also includes an excerpt of a man talking about a "die-in" that he attended, a couple PSAs from America Responds to AIDS, and an art film from the In"Hunter Reynolds Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress." An excerpt from the film "Philadelphia" was removed due to copyright concerns. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/05/1994
Description: Exteriors of nightclub. Interiors of the nightclub, including audience watching music act, band on stage, dancing, waitresses serving people at tables. Interview with nightclub owner on starting his business, after having served as a cantorial singer at a Jewish temple. Interview with nightclub performer.
Collection: WHDH