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Brookline farmers' market

Description: Brookline farmers' market. People buying produce. Many bins of vegetables displayed. Customers are mostly elderly. Interview with farmer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1979

Coal oil mixture project in Salem

Description: Salem Harbor Station of New England Power Co. participates in one-year $10.2 million demonstration project for US Department of Energy. Goal is to show that a coal oil mixture is more efficient and as clean burning as no. 6 oil alone to produce steam to generate electricity. Interview with Mr. Kennedy of New England Power. Smokestacks and exterior of plant, oil storage tanks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1979

Lobsters

Description: People buying lobsters at Bay State Lobster. Lobsters removed from tank, placed on scale, put in paper bags, some crated. Displays of seafood for sale. Newly caught lobsters, tightly packed, claws banded, move around in crate. Interview with proprietor on falling prices and fluctuation of supply and demand. Boston is principal lobster distribution point.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/07/1979

MSG

Description: Interview with Mr. Woo, Chinese restaurant proprietor, about dangers of MSG. Inside kitchen, cook ladles out clams from steaming vats. Bowls of dried shrimp, onions, chopped pork, scallions, hot white rice, egg rolls plated.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1978

Mussel farming

Description: Mussel farming in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, through “suspended culture” via rope immersed in shallow sea water. Hundreds of young, thin shelled mussels clustered densely on rope off side of boat. Man explains mariculture and how mussel growth promotes food chain. Bobbing view of ocean with many buoys lined up in lanes. Open box of nitrogen frozen mussels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/29/1978