Description: Statue (John Harvard?) on Cambridge Common with snow. Massachusetts Avenue Harvard Square storefronts, Yenching restaurant, J. August Clothier, Harvard Trust, Out of Town News. Solid ice on Charles River, looking across to Prudential and Hancock towers. Long shot of traffic crossing bridge.
Description: Four families inhabit Cambridge building, although landlord will not rent to them, preferring to keep apartments vacant because of rent control. Squatters. Affordable housing.
Description: Libon Motors Volkswagen dealer on Western Avenue in Allston. New and used VWs on lot. Window sticker with itemized price. Inside showroom at Porter Chevrolet. “OK” used car lot near Fresh Pond, Cambridge. Coolidge Bank in Harvard Square. Cool-O-Mat automated teller machines (ATMs). Suffolk Franklin Bank. Boylston-Fairfield branch of Shawmut Bank in Back Bay. Sign for NOW checking account paying 5% interest at Home Savings Bank.
Description: Bill Murray, Christopher Reeve, Stockard Channing and other celebrities assemble at Sanders Theater for a poetry reading. Interview with Reeve on performing in Boston. William Alfred (Harvard professor) on Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Description: General shots of people along Charles River, sunbathing, strolling, biking. Most footage shot from moving car along Memorial Drive in Cambridge.