Description: Fenway environs. Streets lined with apartment buildings and high snowbanks. Camera shoots while driving on Park Drive. Open space with bare trees along Muddy River; dirty, crusty snow. Vicinity of Symphony Road, Gainsborough Street, Westland Avenue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/21/1978
Description: Sign “Walter E. Fernald State School, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center” in Waltham. Grouping of shingle and brick cottages on the campus. Administration building exterior. Swings and chairs in park. Residential buildings. Activity center. Interview with superintendent John Gracey on changes in the institution over last two years from custodial facility to active treatment program. Major renovations pursuant to Judge Tauro's court order on care of mentally retarded people. Gracey hopes to reduce residential population by moving appropriately trained clients to community setting.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1978
Description: Interiors of Fernald School. Mentally retarded young adult residents in activity rooms, practicing skills, and in recreation room. Dormitory room sparsely furnished.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1978
Description: Boston fire station environs. Inside garage. Close-up on trucks and equipment. Response to fire call with siren on and lights flashing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Fish being moved in buckets, barrels, and wooden crates on pier in Boston. Lumpers at work. Interview with two fishermen who say quotas prevent them from catching enough to pay their crew and make a living. Line of fishing boats tied up along pier. Close-up layers of fish with glistening skin and eyes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978
Description: Fish Pier environs. Boats tied up at dock's edge. Interview with fisherman Chris, who says catch quotas are too small to make a living. Fish weather vane. Blue rippled water surface. Harbor tour boat passes. Orange netting piled up. Heavy rope on cable pulleys on deck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978
Description: Food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. Linear accelerator using cobalt-60. Food treated to to extend shelf life by killing bacteria. Dr. Abner Salant, director of food engineering, talks about obstacles to FDA approval of process because of current safety and storage regulations. Study has been going on for 25 years, during which testing threshold has been raised. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978
Description: Interview continued with Dr. Abner Salant about food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. He affirms absolutely no danger in process, not carcinogenic. More energy efficient and less damaging to food than conventional sterilization and canning methods. He explains process: 1) With heat, deactivate enzymes that catalyze food. 2) Vacuum pack (hermetically seal) to eliminate oxygen that brings about rancidity. 3) Pass through radiation to kill microorganisms that decay the food. Nitrites not needed to control growth of botulism bacteria. Samples of irradiated meat products on plates. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978
Description: Interview with Frank Sargent, former governor of Massachusetts. Sargent speaks about family, privacy, administration, and the future. He discusses what makes a good campaigner versus what makes a good person in office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/01/1978
Description: Franklin Park environs. Golf course, horses with riders. Site plan for budget study. Boys on bicycles ride by camera. Felled trees, abandoned mattress, trash strewn. View into woods. Light traffic on adjacent roadway. Jamaica Pond with joggers, people strolling, sailboats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/23/1978