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Fernald School

Description: Interiors of Fernald School. Mentally retarded young adult residents in activity rooms, practicing skills, and in recreation room. Dormitory room sparsely furnished.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1978

Fire station environs

Description: Boston fire station environs. Inside garage. Close-up on trucks and equipment. Response to fire call with siren on and lights flashing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978

Fish quotas

Description: Fish being moved in buckets, barrels, and wooden crates on pier in Boston. Lumpers at work. Interview with two fishermen who say quotas prevent them from catching enough to pay their crew and make a living. Line of fishing boats tied up along pier. Close-up layers of fish with glistening skin and eyes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978

Fish quotas

Description: Fish Pier environs. Boats tied up at dock's edge. Interview with fisherman Chris, who says catch quotas are too small to make a living. Fish weather vane. Blue rippled water surface. Harbor tour boat passes. Orange netting piled up. Heavy rope on cable pulleys on deck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978

Food irradiation, Part 1

Description: Food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. Linear accelerator using cobalt-60. Food treated to to extend shelf life by killing bacteria. Dr. Abner Salant, director of food engineering, talks about obstacles to FDA approval of process because of current safety and storage regulations. Study has been going on for 25 years, during which testing threshold has been raised. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978

Food irradiation, Part 2

Description: Interview continued with Dr. Abner Salant about food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. He affirms absolutely no danger in process, not carcinogenic. More energy efficient and less damaging to food than conventional sterilization and canning methods. He explains process: 1) With heat, deactivate enzymes that catalyze food. 2) Vacuum pack (hermetically seal) to eliminate oxygen that brings about rancidity. 3) Pass through radiation to kill microorganisms that decay the food. Nitrites not needed to control growth of botulism bacteria. Samples of irradiated meat products on plates. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978

Franklin Park and Jamaica Pond

Description: Franklin Park environs. Golf course, horses with riders. Site plan for budget study. Boys on bicycles ride by camera. Felled trees, abandoned mattress, trash strewn. View into woods. Light traffic on adjacent roadway. Jamaica Pond with joggers, people strolling, sailboats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/23/1978

Fresh Pond

Description: Environs of Fresh Pond reservation in Cambridge. Joggers, dogs, and bicyclists share perimeter path. People relax on grass. Distant view of three high-rise buildings of Rindge Towers public housing. Pan of parking lot. Cover of master plan. Rippling, sparkling surface of water. Police call box. Two boys on swings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1978

Fuel trucks

Description: Fuel tank trucks, chemical and solvent truck, Exxon, Old Colony, liquefied methane (LNG) trucks marked “flammable gas,” on the highway. Entrance ramp to Route 93 in Somerville. Following Virginia Pipe Line Company tanker. Road sign “Fuel Truck Route.” White Fuel truck on Southeast Expressway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1978

Fusion

Description: Fusion. Alcatron. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/14/1978