Description: Mounted Boston police officer near Quincy Market. Crowds of children pet horse. Street performer. Angled view of upper facade of Faneuil Hall juxtaposed with Sixty State Street high rise. Quincy Market plaque. Grasshopper weather vane. Sign for “Where's Boston?”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1978
Description: Sidney Farber press conference at Anthony's Pier. Silent footage of Farber is talking. Farber shaking hands with folks. Farber at the podium taking questions about funding for cancer research and talks about great progress in the past 20 year and about progress in chemotherapy and molecular biology. He says the country has never been in this good of a position before in terms of labs to do research. Another man talks at the podium.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/18/1969
Description: Story about grocery stores in the Boston area joining the boycott of California grapes called for by the United Farmworker's Union. Footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voice over about the lack of California table grapes in certain grocery store chains. Cut to a man from the American Farm Bureau Federation discussing the harmful tampering of food markets by retailers that are removing a certain product from their inventory for social reasons. Back to footage of people in the produce isle of a grocery store with reporter voiceover about the response from a store executive that they are reacting to requests from customers that the store join in the grape boycott. Reporter standup. Silent b-roll of customers looking at produce, a pan of the produce isle, a woman weighing tomatoes and a close up of a fruit tray with a sign that reads, "This tray contains artificial fruit. If you wish you may order one with real fruit." Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1973
Description: Leader: P1 Fast for World Harvest #10567 11/21/74; A crowd stands in front of a church in Harvard Yard while the bell rings. Interview with a woman who is fasting for Fasting for World Harvest. Shots of a table with information about world hinger. Interview with a man from Oxfam (possibly Gerry Goodrich) about world hunger and the purpose of this 24 hour fast. Roger Goodrich reporter standup. Footage of mime Trent Arterbury performing in Harvard Yard. Boston College sign. Oxfam office. More of the interview with Goodrich? about the Fast For World Harvest. More broll of the Oxfam office and people gathered at Harvard Yard watching Arterbury perform. Interviews with people who are fasting. Reporter outtakes.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/21/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fatal Brighton Fire #9628 8/12/74"; Silent b-roll of a store with a broken window and a burned out store. Reel 1 of 2. See. Acc. 2394.00786"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/12/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Faulty Lights 12-17-74"; Silent footage of a woman's hand holding Christmas lights, a pencil pointing to something in the light fixture, and the light's packaging."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/17/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Faye Dunaway # 7379 2/20/74; Actress Faye Dunaway in Cambridge for the Harvard Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year ceremony. Dunaway in a convertible in a parade. Part of Hasty Pudding song and dance performance; Police outside; Dunaway accepts award; empty press conference table; Dunaway answers reporter questions about The Exorcist, her time at college in Boston, and the Women's lib movement. Students on the street waiting for the parade, a marching band leads the convertible with Dunaway through the streets. More footage of the award ceremony, a Faye Dunaway look-a-like contest (with men in drag), more of the student performance.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/20/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Fear of Flying #9474 7/27/74"; People board an airplane, footage out the window as the plane takes off. Interviews with people who overcame their fear of flying through a course. Pan Am flight attendants hand out badges. "Pan Am Logan's Heroes" sign. Footage of the cockpit. Silent footage of celebration with cake, drinks, and certificates handed out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/27/1974
Description: Leader: P1 Federal Bases Study #8968 6/6/74; Footage of the waterfront; cranes; buildings; an empty canal. Press conference with Hale Champion, chairman of the Commission on Federal Base Conversion. Still aerial images of closed military bases. The commission was tasked to plan for the conversion of 5 military installations for public use, including the closed Boston Naval Shipyard and Chelsea Naval Hospital. Hale discusses the the work of the Commission and their findings.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/06/1974
Description: "Leader: "P1 Feisty Italiana #10758"; Silent footage of performers at the Festa Italiana, an Italian cultural festival at Boston City Hall. Crowd walks with candles down the street, more silent footage of singers and musicians, women in traditional Italian dress."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/16/1974