Description: Caterpillars infesting the homes and yards of people on Plum Island. Footage of caterpillars and interviews with residents. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/25/1976
Description: Story on political polls and why they are inaccurate. Footage includes Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, poor poll predictions from the last year, 1984 Democratic Convention, and a shot of John Glen. Reporter voice-over throughout. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1984
Description: A story on poverty in Boston and churches that work with the poor. Interview with Vincent Daly of Roxbury St. John's Parrish, and a closer look at two of his parishioners. Interview with Anne, a single mother recently kicked out of her apartment, and footage of the horrible conditions in another apartment. Footage of a soup kitchen that runs out of the basement of the church. The second half of the story focuses on Sister Eustis Caggiano, who runs a free store/donation center out of the basement of the Cardinal Cushing Spanish Center. Footage of Caggiano helping families, people shopping in her store, and an interview with Caggiano. Some video problems. Reporter voice over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/27/1986
Description: Story on poverty in the mill town of North Adams in the Berkshires. Several companies in the area have shut down or are laying off most of their workers. Interviews with several different laid off workers, workers at a new job training program, women working in a garment factory, shots of the town and closed businesses downtown, and people at a diner. Some video problems. Reporter voice over through reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/28/1986
Description: Written on tape: "Preview/ Debate Pres. Candidates." Analysis of what Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan need to do in the upcoming debate to win, and how they currently stand in the election campaign. Footage from the previous debate, Mondale and Reagan on the campaign trail, and newspaper articles on whether Reagan is senile. Reporter voice-over throughout reel. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/19/1984
Description: Story on Elaine Bosler, animal control officer who brought home dogs and cats scheduled to be killed at the shelter. Neighbors and the town complained about the amount of animals on her property. Reel begins with a voice over track (with no picture) by the reporter, followed by an interview with Bosler and footage of dogs and cats around her home. Another voice over track (with no picture) and an interview with the Princeton Board of Selectmen Chairman. Reel ends with a closing voice over track (with no picture) by the reporter. This reel is 2 of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/07/1977
Description: Exhibit of artwork created by prisoners from Norfolk prison and interviews with the artists/prisoners. Interviews with a man who painted one of the pictures in exhibit and a man who constructed a model church out of wood. Footage includes b-roll of the exhibit, exterior shots of Norfolk prison, interview cut aways, and interviews with the artists about their inspiration, their time in prison, how this experience has effected them. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/16/1972
Description: Interview with a man from the Foxhollow school, which is closing, about the history and grounds of the school. Footage of the school grounds, the estate, a woman riding a horse, people playing tennis, and closing reporter standup. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "The Foxhollow school goes under from the onslaught of inflation- making it about the fifth or sixth such institution to folk in Lenox."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/31/1976
Description: Story #6979A. Interview with a man (sound cuts in and out) and with a doctor about how Medicare oversight should be done by other doctors. Silent b-roll footage of exterior of a house with "Thomas B. Haynes - Surgeon" sign and press conference with doctors about medicare. Another doctor speaks about cost control in medicine, more from the first doctor, and a third doctor speaks about managerial problems in Medicare. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/10/1974
Description: Mostly b-roll footage of a demonstration by R.O.A.R. (Restore Our Alienated Rights), an anti-busing organization. People gathered in the Boston Common as a man speaks over a load speaker. Silent footage of a man speaking and people in the crowd watching. Signs and flags. An interview with James M. Kelly about the demonstration. Shots of the crowd sitting and standing in the park. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/12/1976