Description: Reel begins with cuts. Interviews with runners and spectators about why runners with no chance of winning compete in the race. Footage of the winner from the previous year, Olavi Suomalainen, with his laurel wreath and trophy. Silent b-roll footage of runners in various places along the race route. Edited story taken from the above footage. Reporter standup, interview with runners and spectators, and silent footage of runners during the race. Goes back into cuts with footage of runners preparing at the starting line. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/14/1973
Description: Footage of the Boston Marathon. Clip of press conference with Joan Benoit Samuelson at finish.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/17/1989
Description: "Leader: ""Sports P1 Boston Minutemen #7449 2/28/74""; Silent footage of soccer player Arthur Fraser signing with the Boston Minutemen. Interview with Fraser about why he is switching leagues and signing with the Minutemen."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/28/1974
Description: Exterior of Boston State College Administration building. Interview with women who have locked themselves in the switchboard office in protest of gender discrimination within the school. Interview with a man from the university. Interview with a student that thinks there should be a Man's Center if there is a Woman's Center. Reporter standup. Interview cutaways, a list of the women's demands, a meeting with university officials and students, interviews with a woman and a man who don't agree with the protest. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/13/1973
Description: "Leader: ""P2 Boston Stock Exchange #9572 8/6/74""; Interview with a man about closing the stock exchange when Richard Nixon resigned. B-roll footage of workers at the Boston Stock Exchange working on computers and looking at a digital sign with news of Nixon's resignation."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/06/1974
Description: Edited footage of a hockey games between Boston University and Boston College. Game ended in a 6-6 tie after overtime. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1977
Description: "Leader: ""P1 Boston Voting #8936 6/4/74""; Silent footage of various voting locations including the West End Branch Library and James Micheal Curley Recreation Center; election workers and voters at the polls; closeup of the ballot."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/04/1974
Description: "Leader: ""F2 Bottle Bill Hearing #7550 3/11/74""; Silent b-roll of a hearing at the Massachusetts State House about a bottle bill. A man speaks to the reporter about the beverage industry's opposition to littering. A man testifies followed by silent footage of soda bottles and other beverages on the shelf at a supermarket. Governor Francis Sargent and the Governor of Oregon Tom McCall speak to the committee in favor of a bottle bill that will help to eliminate littering. Representatives from the beverage industry list why they are opposed to the bill."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/11/1974
Description: Exteriors of the Boxford Police Department. Closeup on Boxford Police car. Man exits police building and talks to man in a convertible. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: "Leader: ""Boxing #9080 6/17/74""; Silent footage of a boxing match between Juan C. Botta, aka Butcher Boy Botta, and Chris Pina at the Boston Garden. Several shots of the fight ending with Botta and Pina in their robes in the ring. Botta's reads ""Butcher Boy Botta"" on the back. Followed by some footage of the heavy weight fight from the same night between Rick Wynn and Richard Johnson. Wynn wins by knocking Johnson out."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/17/1974