Description: Interview with Al from MDC about Charles River pollution from combined sewer overflows, storm drains, and urban runoff. Aggregation of debris floating on the water.
Description: Charles River Watershed Assn. fights to upgrade quality of water for swimming by reducing sewage overflow. Sewer drain cover in road. People canoe, row + sail on Charles. Sound of water lapping stones.
Description: Elevated view of Cambridge from Boston side of Charles River. Sailboats. Traffic over Longfellow Bridge. Then reverse view of Boston: State House golden dome with cupola. Prudential building in far right frame. Old Hancock adjacent to new Hancock with reflective surface. Pan west over MIT buildings on Cambridge side at a distance. Red line T train crosses river approaching Charles Circle.
Description: Interview with Rita of Charles River Watershed Association on development and history of Charles River. Talks about industrial discharge and cleanup, land use along banks, sewage, condition of fish life and vegetation.
Description: Pan of Harvard Business School buildings. Ivy covered stadium. Cupolas. View from Charles River, pan to boathouse. Seated John Harvard statue. Harvard Yard. Grand steps at columned entrance of Widener Library. Zoom into Veritas emblem. Empty bleachers inside stadium. Memorial Church exterior with steeple, bell tower, weather vane.
Description: High, wide, long shots of Boston environs from observation deck of Hancock Tower. Nearly aerial views of South End, Charles River, Boston Harbor, State House, and orange line T moving along elevated tracks.