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Description:
Logan air traffic control tower. Controller Bill crosses concrete walkway into tower structure. Low shot looking up to top of tower. Bill at work in dark radar room. Concentrates on scope showing relative positions of numerous planes in Boston air space. Gives altitude, speed, descent and approach instructions to several flights via headset. reel 1 of 4
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/03/1978
Description:
Air traffic controllers at Logan tower. Line of controllers seated in dark room in front of radar scopes. Interview with Bill about how he became a controller, starting in military; what attributes are necessary to do the job well. reel 2 of 4
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/03/1978
Description:
Air traffic control tower at Logan. Controller Bill works in departure control readying flights for takeoff, giving runway instructions via headset. Pilot acknowledgement audible. He surveys expanse of runways from window of tower in daylight. TWA plane takes off. Controllers work standing. Cam tilts between radar scope and window onto runways. Bill and female controller seen head on through outside of window (shot from catwalk). reel 3 of 4
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/03/1978
Description:
Air traffic controller Bill in Logan tower, seen through window (shot from catwalk). High shot of wide area surrounding airport. Cars driving to airport, past Eastern hangar and terminal. View across harbor to financial district skyline with Custom House and beyond to Citgo sign in extreme distance. Flight approach instructions given over headset; pilot acknowledgement audible. British Airways plane taxis on runway, gathers speed, nose points up, lifts off, landing gear retracts. reel 4 of 4
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/03/1978
Description:
Lowell Dump (not hazardous waste). .
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/15/1978
Description:
Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
11/15/1978
Description:
Demonstration of midair collision avoidance system on radar screen at Logan air traffic control tower. Simulated flight numbers flash “CA” for conflict alert when the plane positions are too close.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/26/1978
Description:
Newsroom of South Middlesex News. VDTs (video display terminals) outnumber electric typewriters. Wire machines. Paste-up artists crop photos with exacto knife, lay out pages. Several people smoke as they work. Computer punch tape in ribbons on floor. Man working at phototypesetting machine. reel 1 of 2
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/11/1978
Description:
Editor Bob Moore at South Middlesex News shows how copy is typed, formatted and corrected on VDT monitor, new electronic equipment to the newsroom. Close-up of hands on computer keyboard. He inserts numerical codes for type size, headline size, column width. “Makes for better typing…no more proofreaders…reporters love it…it lifts them psychologically.” Paper has been largely eliminated from the newsroom. Composing room jobs reduced and people retrained. Cost savings put toward buying the technology and enhancing the editorial staff. Cartoonist working in pen and ink; his drawings posted on the wall. reel 2 of 2
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/11/1978
