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Artists' housing

Description: Interview with artist about living and working in his loft in leather district, Boston. Studio interior, open paint cans, brushes, finished painting on white wall. Kitchen and sleeping space adjacent to gallery. Large warehouse windows exuding natural light. Interview with Liz Dworkin about need for artists' housing and dispute with BRA and developers over zoning and rents. Exteriors on South Street: Keeler Leather Co., Barney's Uniform, Proctor Ellison Co., Seamon Steen Co., Berman Leather, Cornhill Magazine & Book Co., Siegel Leather, building facades.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1976

Boston Indian Council

Description: Interview with Cliff Saunders of Boston Indian Council. 3500 to 4000 native Americans live in Boston area, 75% Micmacs from Nova Scotia. Council's goals are to enhance self-determination, improve education and employment, and foster cultural awareness and pride. Pair of ping pong players in recreation room. Small children's group in day care room. In elder affairs room, men play cribbage and women do handcrafts. Sign “American Indian spoken here.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/18/1977

Finance Commission chair

Description: Interview with new Boston Finance Commission (FinCom) chair, lawyer Jeffrey Lambert. His job is to do studies in city finances to save taxpayers money by uncovering inefficiencies and improprieties. He wants to keep his research as apolitical as possible. Three flags fly over City Hall: US, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1977

Melville Avenue, Dorchester

Description: Interior architectural details and decor of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interview with homeowner Marlene Knight about why her family moved from suburbs to that neighborhood. Interview with Arthur Glass about why he bought house there. Both seek racially mixed area and affordability in the city.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976

QE2

Description: Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship seen from East Boston. Aboard the luxury liner (no passengers). Pool on deck, shuffleboard. British flag. Interview with Cunard Lines representative on history of ship and cruise business. Inside passenger cabin. Porthole windows. Ballroom, bandstand, bust of queen. Profile from bow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1976

Recycling in Somerville

Description: Recycling in Somerville. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/12/1976

Richard Rowland

Description: Interview with Richard Rowland, director of Massachusetts Association of Elder Americans, on state funding for homemaker services to assist senior citizens with housekeeping and errands and help them stay out of nursing homes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1977

School bus strike

Description: Long rows of parked school buses behind chain link fence. Striking bus drivers wear union buttons. Union members meet in conference room. Interview with David Finnegan about negotiations and wage issue. Interview with two steelworker union officials on stalemate with Hudson and Brush Hill Cos. Close-up on padlock. Bus drivers with placards. Man in information center talks to parent on phone about alternative transportation to school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1978

Suffolk Courthouse security

Description: Suffolk County Courthouse hallway. Surveillance camera. A monitor displays output of cameras at three vantage points. Guard scans visitors with metal detector, frisks some; goes over belts, pockets, looks in briefcases, bags. Men remove hats to show nothing is hidden. Interview about newly installed security system since April bombing. Details are given on how the security system can be used to deter incidents as well as to apprehend suspects after the fact. Exterior of Suffolk County Courthouse.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1976

Symphony Road arson

Description: B-roll of bulldozer clearing debris from Symphony Road fire. Exteriors of buildings with broken and boarded up windows and smoke stains. Interview with David Scondras of Symphony Tenants Organizing Project. He talks about why the rash of 29 fires in three years is suspected as arson: absentee landlords, high vacancy rate, poor condition of structures, lodging houses, lapsed mortgages. He adds that there is nothing the city can do about the problem and explains why. He hopes that State legislators will back his organization's bill which removes the financial motivation for landlords to burn down houses in poor condition. He discusses the number of people affected while they shoot cutaways. Reporter reasks question for editing purposes. Exteriors of a Red Cross Disaster Service Center. Several takes of reporter standup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1977