Description: B-roll of clerical workers. Women using Royal electric typewriters. Sound effects of key strokes and carriage return bell. Rotary dial telephone. Row of desks. Rubber stamp, rolodex, stapler, adding machine.
Description: Home heating oil delivery by Gibbs truck. Driver pulls hose from truck, connects to intake pipe on house. Meter in truck reads 146 gallons. Hose retracts and rewinds. Delivery slip is generated from meter, placed in mailbox. Truck drives away. Exteriors of houses and apartment buildings.
Description: General Oil / Reading Oil truck. Driver attaches hose to fill pipe on side of house. Finishes delivery, prints bill from meter, leaves it in mail slot, drives off. General Oil office. Maintenance truck pulls up. Worker takes tools out of side compartment. Inside office clerk enters billing information at computer keyboard. Printout on perforated paper lists data by billing code.
Description: Cuts from a press conference with Governor Francis Sargent at Cape Cod on oil spills along the cape. Several takes of reporter standup on the damage to the wildlife in Falmouth from the recent oil spill.
Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Description: Oil tankers and cargo ships in Boston harbor. Sunlight reflects off of oil tanker. Snow on pier. Woman reports that approximately a week prior, the Grand Zenith, a 642 foot tanker disappeared, or perhaps sunk.
Description: Man speaks to a legislative subcommittee about extending Old Age Assistance Benefits to cover elderly people suffering from mental illness. He discussed the matter with Senator John F. Kennedy to add the endeavor to the Senator's mental Health Program for 1960.