Description: Newsfeed tape: short clip of press conference in which United States Secretary of State Edmund Muskie discusses the looming threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1980
Description: Volume of newspaper offered for recycling exceeds demand of paper mills. Recycling plant interior. Bundles and piles of newspapers. People dropping off bottles, cans, and paper at bins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1989
Description: Newsprint environs at Middlesex News. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1979
Description: Newsprint environs at Middlesex News. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1979
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: Leader: P1 Newton H.S. Demo #10492 11/13/74; Students from Newton North High School march to the Newton City Hall to protest the health hazards in the school. Students gathered in front of City Hall meet with Mayor Thomas Mann. A student lists their grievances with a bull horn and Mann speaks to the crowd. Silent footage of the students marching.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/13/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Newton Lady Cops #10608 11/25/74; Public hearing in Newton Massachusetts about accepting a Federal grant for a test program to hire and train 12 women police officers. Man (Mayor Theodore Mann?) speaks in favor of the program. Attorney Joseph McParland and another man speak in opposition to the proposed grant program.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/25/1974