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Days in the Arts

Description: Story #9648. Boston city children at a 4-day art program in the Berkshires. Footage includes children playing the harp, visiting the Norman Rockwell House, the grounds of Daniel French's Chesterwood, Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, children listening to presentations on art and music, sculpting with clay, and picnicking. Interviews with the children about the experience, and with one of the program directors. Edited footage followed by cuts. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/14/1974

New Car Sales

Description: "Leader: "P1 New Car Sales (Arch) 8/19/74 #9688"; Silent footage of a model in front of a model Mercury Monarch, new cars on display. Interview with a man about the public's desire for luxury cars and rising car prices (audio muffled). A man looks at the cars. Arch MacDonald reporter stand up about declining car sales."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/19/1974

Women's Equality Day

Description: Story #9759. Demonstration on the 54th anniversary of women's suffrage at Government Center. Female rock band plays music, women dance. Closeups on feminist literature. Interviews with women on the Equal Right Amendment, the women's liberation movement, and progress towards women's equality. Additional sound and silent footage of band playing to large crowd. Interview with woman on the accomplishments of the League of Women Voters. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/26/1974

Logan Runaway

Description: Story #9771. Story about plans to build a new runways at Logan Airport, the "Logan Masterplan," and objections from the community with noise and environmental concerns. Footage includes b-roll of press conference, close up shots of runway plans, planes taking off and landing, construction equipment and workers, press conference with concerned citizens and a press conference with governor King about a court order that halted construction, environmental impact studies, and how to continue with the project. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/27/1974

Cox, Drinan, Kennedy Sargent - on Nixon pardon

Description: Story #9883. Statements by Father Robert Drinan, Governor Sargent Francis, special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal Archibold Cox, and Senator Edward Kennedy on President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Mary McKay interview with Father Drinan on the street. Drinan thinks that the pardon is in violation of the spirit of the United State Constitution. Governor Sargent, surrounded by news microphones, does not believe that Nixon should go to jail, but the implications of pardoning him for crimes that an ordinary citizen would go to jail for is concerning. Seated at a desk, Archibald Cox reads a statement in response to the pardon, and believes that it violates the principal of our government to pardon the President in advance of the Grand Jury Hearing. Interview with Kennedy on a pier. He comments on how pardon may signify a pardon for draft evaders, and is concerned that the pardon may have been done too soon.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/08/1974

Bradford Annex

Description: "Leader:"Bradford Annex - Taibbi #9907 9/12/74"; After parents busing their kids complained about conditions at the William Bradford Annex school in Dorchester there have been updates to the school, but improvements are still needed. Footage of children in the classroom interacting with teachers and arriving at and leaving the school.; Internal and external footage of the William Bradford Annex school. Teachers preparing classrooms and workers fixing the floor; lockers. Reporter voiceover about the children arriving at school. Mike Taibbi reporter standup about the condition of the Dorchester school. Interview with principal Jack Daniels about the improved condition of the school. B-roll of white kids getting off of busses and walking into school; children eating lunch and joking around; closeup of school lunch; children answer questions about the lunch, teachers, and how they feel about the school; children and parents outside the school; black children walking down the street, one girl has a kitten; Pauline Agassizi Shaw School school; man delivers milk to the school; teacher teaching french to a classroom that is half empty; "We care for kids" sign; children in the hallway between classes; cooking food in the school kitchen; kids get on busses; reporter outtakes; police on the sidewalk while kids walk by."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/12/1974

Boyd - School folo

Description: "Leader: "P2 Boyd - School folo #9910 "9/14/74; Police escort school buses; interview b-roll; children in school on an escalator; children in class. Jim Boyd reporter stand-up in front of Hyde Park High School about problems that the schools faced on the first few days of school. Interview with a man (Dr. John Coakley) about problems with student schedules and his outlook for the next week of school. Police gathered outside school, students walk into school. More of the interview with Coakley about scheduling problems and attendance."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/14/1974

South Boston High

Description: "Leader: "P2 (Taibbi) South Boston High #10113A 10/3/74"; Shot of the front of South Boston High School. Kids get off the bus and shout. Reporter voiceover (no picture) about police presence and problems with horses. Reporter standup. Reporter voiceover (police in front of the school) about students arriving. Interview with a man while parents yell at the police. A person comes out of the school on a stretcher. Police bring a person out of the school, put him in a van, and the van drives away. Police motorcycles escort busses. African American students leave the school and get on buses. Reporter voiceover outtakes.Headmaster Dr. William J Reid talks to reporters about attendance numbers, class schedules, lunch period, and police in the building. Reporter asks about weapons in the school. Interview with a man about security. A bus of police arrive. Footage of police around the school. B-roll of kids arriving and crowds of parents. Reporter = Mike Taibbi. Mix of sound and silent."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/03/1974

Tenants Demo.

Description: Leader: P2 Tenants Demo. (Clink) #10105 10/3/74; Silent footage of boarded up apartments; apartments with broken windows; high rise apartment buildings; people march with signs. A public meeting at Boston City Hall in response to an ordinance passed by the City Council that would end rent control on some FHA luxury housing units in Boston. Bob Clinksdale reporter standup. A man answers questions from tenants and tenant group representatives about the ordinance and Mayor White's possible veto. Reporter outtakes, silent b-roll of apartment buildings, and tenant's demonstration.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/03/1974

El Derly Parley

Description: Leader: P2 Elderly Parley (Arch) 10/4/74; Governor Francis Sargent speaks at Legislative Council for Older Americans meeting at the John Hancock building. Arch Macdonald reporter standup about the political Senior Power button. Excerpt from Michael Dukakis's speech to the group. Reporter outtakes and silent b-roll of the audience and speakers.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/04/1974