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Solar houses

Description: Three solar houses in Lincoln. Bare trees, snow on ground. Two men splitting downed tree trunk on Audubon grounds. Collector panels on roof. Sound of power saw. Frozen pond. Long-haired white cat.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1978

South Boston High School

Description: Empty classroom at South Boston High School. Mr. Healey's science class, mostly black students, sparsely attended. Geology principles written on blackboard and other science posters on classroom walls. Boy writes in spiral notebook. Students in the hallway. Boys in mechanical shop class. Black and white boys play basketball in gym. Black teacher works with black student on vocabulary lesson. Students do class work at desks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South End pumping station

Description: South End pumping station and sewage treatment plant. Equipment inside, pipes labelled hot water, cold water, vent. Pressure gauge, motor, flow chart. Control panel with switches and alarms. Sign on exterior: Pollution Abatement and Flood Control Facility, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1978

Southeast Expressway, Columbia Station

Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

Speak & Spell

Description: Little girl uses Speak & Spell computer toy with synthesized voice. Interview with man from Texas Instruments about development of this learning tool game with integrated speech, and on future applications of speech recognition and synthesis technology.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/25/1978

T after snowstorm

Description: Green line trolley cars parked in snow. 15 teens shovel median strip along tracks in Brookline. Old orange trolley pulls to stop, rings bell, slowly proceeds on Beacon Street. Traffic rounds Newton Corner. View down onto Mass. Pike from overpass. Sign points to Charlesbank Road.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

The Computer Store in Burlington

Description: The Computer Store in Burlington strip mall. Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer. Customer tries out Data General computer. Monitor displaying computer game. Synthesized music (classical and Star Wars themes). Apple II. Chess match on screen.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1978

Theater district

Description: Boston theater district exteriors. Marquees of Saxon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and Wilbur. Ornate architectural details on facades - sculpture, columns, windows, pilasters, muses/cherubs, medallions. Jacob Wirth restaurant on Stuart Street. Savoy theater. Paramount entrance boarded up. Logo of Paramount Pictures in bas relief. Modern Theatre.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/30/1978

Tip O'Neill interview

Description: Interview with Speaker Tip O'Neill in his Washington office about the relative and shifting powers of the Congress and the President.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/10/1978