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Music Hall

Description: Grand lobby, interior of Music Hall. Ornate chandelier, marble columns, heavenly mural. Gilded architectural details — carved moldings, capitals, medallions, angels. Interview with Harry Lodge, who gives history of Music Hall (formerly Metropolitan Theater), originally designed in 1920s by Clarence Blackhall for Vaudeville and movies. Describes the proposed restoration program to be completed in fall 1980 if lease secured and funds raised. In order to bring the Metropolitan Opera to Boston, the theater needs deeper stage for performing arts, updated communication systems, ventilation systems, and a renovated auditorium (seats 4,300). The theater is used for ballet, concerts, movies. Lodge states that this renovation with revitalize Boston as a major center for the performing arts. Lodge shows a drawing of the proposed plan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977

Name Game

Description: Silent footage of an office and books of marriage records. Interview with a man about name changing regulations in Massachusetts. More silent b-roll of the records office. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Supreme Court ruling yesterday that persons may change their names and use whatever names they choose for themselves."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/05/1977

Nantucket voting pt. 2

Description: Nantucket holds a non-binding vote on seceding from Massachusetts. Interview with a man about taxation without representation. Closing reporter standup. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/04/1977

Nantucket voting pt.1

Description: Nantucket holds a non-binding vote on seceding from Massachusetts. Footage of people walking down the street and coming into a polling place, people depositing their ballots, interview with a man about the vote, shots of the Tom Nevers Reservation, and the countryside shot from a moving car. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/04/1977

New England Aquarium

Description: Waterfront environs. Exterior of the New England Aquarium. Harbor seals.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1977

Non-traditional Jobs For Women, pt. 1

Description: Women sitting outside in a parking eating their lunch, they head back into the basement of the Boston Center for the Arts where they are doing construction work. Interview with a woman about what she is learning, more footage of women doing construction work, and an interview with another woman about her motivation to do this work. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Women in jobs you wouldn't expect to find them in."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/11/1977

Non-traditional Jobs For Women, pt. 2

Description: Interview with a man about the women working construction in the basement of the Boston Center for the Arts. Interview with a woman who is working there and with a woman who runs the works program. Reporter closing standup. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Women in jobs you wouldn't expect to find them in."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/11/1977

Obscenity Ruling

Description: Exterior footage of adult bookstores in Boston's Combat Zone, with close ups on the signs in the windows and ending with a shot of two magazines, Chic and Hustler. Interview with assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Court Decision [regarding] combat zone bookstore [rules in their favor] - plus interview with Larry (hustler) Flynt, and assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1977

Obscenity Ruling, pt.2

Description: Interview with Larry Flynt about pornography. Closing reporter standup. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Court Decision [regarding] combat zone bookstore [rules in their favor] - plus interview with Larry (hustler) Flynt, and assistant DA for Suffolk County, Tim O'Neill."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1977

Office workers and equipment

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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1977