Description: 20 years after Harvard student strike, radicals reunite in the Yard to recall their activism and proclaim continued commitment to ideals. Harvard Medical School exteriors. Mission Park apartments.
Description: Harvard Coop record department. Close-up on classical records and posters of conductors. Shelves of LP album spines. Shoppers browse bins. Customers pay, cashier opens register drawer, makes change, bags records. 8-track tapes stacked on shelves. Audio cassettes displayed.
Description: Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue through Harvard Square. Subway kiosk with sign “Rapid Transit To All Points.” Cars stopped at corner of Dunster Street. Cars stopped on Boylston (JFK) Street. Sign for The Garage and Strawberries Records. “Closed” sign at red line station entrance. Out of Town News. Stacks of newspapers. Boston Herald American front page headline “Walkout may halt T today.” Yellow electric cable buses parked in Bennett Street MBTA yard.
Description: Red line MBTA station at Harvard Square. Newer silver car with red stripe. Older blue car pulls into station. People descend staircase to subway platform. People pass through exit turnstiles out to street. Bus comes to stop near Harvard/Brattle station entrance on Eliot Street. Many passengers step off another bus. Exact fare coin box.
Description: Harvard Yard, static and tracking shots. Bare trees and shallow snow. Students wearing parkas traverse the paths carrying books and knapsacks. Steps and Corinthian columns of Widener Library. Steeple of Memorial Church. Statue of seated John Harvard with snow. Food vendor outside gate. Entrance and ziggurat-like tiers of Science Center. Woman in wheelchair goes through doors. Adjacent Littauer building with classically columned grand facade.