Description: Small and large planes taxiing on Logan runways. USAir, PBA, Precision, Northwest Orient, Command, Piedmont, British Airways, Empire, People Express, Ransome, Air North, TWA, Freedom. Commuter airlines, L-1011.
Description: Computer medicine lab at Beth Israel Hospital. Demonstration of test program asking questions on screen in French or Spanish of patient visiting clinic for certain medical problems. Patient would answer via keyboard. If no complications, computer issues prescription appropriate for diagnosis. Printout of examples of computer generated dialogue. Inside computer room -- CPUs labelled “Sherlock” and “Mycroft,” tapes on shelves, teletype-like printer. Outside main entrance to hospital.
Description: Charles Bennet interviews Massport executive director David Davis about the Massport board of directors and the enormous success of one-way tolls experiment on Tobin Bridge and harbor tunnels. They shoot cutaways. Shots of the Commonwealth Pier. Tanker passes by. Smaller boats tied up along waterfront. Traffic on fish pier. Massport Maritime Terminal. Dump trucks clearing ground for construction. Cranes hanging over pier.
Description: Interview with Boston traffic commissioner John Vitagliano on merits of investing in roads versus public transit. Sign pointing to entrance of Callahan Tunnel. Steady stream of traffic entering tunnel. Expressway offramp.