Description: Footage for a story on the commercialization of cartoons and the link between cartoons and toys. Interiors of a toy store with closeups on individual toys, especially action figures. Shots of shoppers in the story, a child with her grandparents. Interview with shopper, Virginia Bernard, on toys, TV and how she buys her granddaughter toys from shows she doesn't actually like. Several takes of each section of reporter stand up. Interview with psychiatrist from Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School about the link between cartoons, toys, and the effect on children.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1985
Description: TRIPLE DECKERS IN DORCHESTER, KIDS PLAYING IN PARK, HOUSING RENOVATION
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1982
Description: Children visit Museum of Science to see live undersea pictures via robot camera from a Mediterranean exploration ship. The Jason Project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1989
Description: Mission Hill residents gather to discuss the real character of their ethnically mixed, stable neighborhood. Mission Hill streets and triple deckers. Children on playground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1990
Description: UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS, STAGED MAN WAITS IN LINES, GETS CHECK. CHILDREN PLAYING BASEBALL IN STREET, RIDING BICYCLES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/04/1983
Description: KIDS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AT 1001 PLAYS IN CAMBRIDGE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1983
Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989
Description: Richard Voke is honored for advocating Healthy Start program to safeguard infant care. As House Ways & Means chair, he fights for "pro-children's" budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1988
Description: An African American mother and her children are at home in their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The children eat a meal in the kitchen while their mother washes dishes in the sink. Three girls watch television in a bedroom. Another girl tidies up a bedroom in the apartment. Shots of members of the family leaving the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the apartment building.
1:00:00: Visual: An African American mother and her children are in the kitchen of their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The mother works at the sink. Her children are eating a meal at the table. Music plays in the background. One of the boys at the table picks at the meat on his plate. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Some of the children are finished with their meal and stand around the kitchen. Three of the children eat their meals at the table. Shot of an adolescent girl eating her meal at the table. A teenage girl checks on food in the oven. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Shot of the food on a plate on the table. The children and the mother talk amongst themselves. Shot of a young girl seated at the table, picking meat off of a bone. Shot of the mother's hands washing dishes. Shot of two young boys who are sharing a seat at the table. 1:05:06: V: The mother clears the table as the children leave the kitchen. A young African American man stands in the kitchen with the mother. 1:05:21: V: Three girls sit on a bed in a bedroom, watching Three's Company on television. Shots of the television; of a teenage girl watching television; of a young girl sitting on the bed. 1:07:23: V: A teenage girl plays a song by Michael Jackson on the stereo in another bedroom. She tidies up the bedroom while listening to the music. Shots of the stereo, photos, and a greeting card on top of the dresser. 1:11:02: V: The crew sets up a shot of the young man and the children exiting the apartment building. The young man holds the hand of one of the young children. Shot of the exterior of the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the building. The children jump rope. Shot of the other buildings in the housing project. Children play in courtyards of the buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1983
Description: In two San Salvador hospitals, children lie severely wounded, casualties of the war between government army and rebels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1990