Description: Air traffic control tower at Logan. Controller Bill works in departure control readying flights for takeoff, giving runway instructions via headset. Pilot acknowledgement audible. He surveys expanse of runways from window of tower in daylight. TWA plane takes off. Controllers work standing. Cam tilts between radar scope and window onto runways. Bill and female controller seen head on through outside of window (shot from catwalk). reel 3 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978
Description: Air traffic controller Bill in Logan tower, seen through window (shot from catwalk). High shot of wide area surrounding airport. Cars driving to airport, past Eastern hangar and terminal. View across harbor to financial district skyline with Custom House and beyond to Citgo sign in extreme distance. Flight approach instructions given over headset; pilot acknowledgement audible. British Airways plane taxis on runway, gathers speed, nose points up, lifts off, landing gear retracts. reel 4 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978
Description: Lowell environs
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1978
Description: Lowell Dump (not hazardous waste). .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978
Description: Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978
Description: Lowell brick mill buildings. Exteriors with new windows. Snow in courtyard. Renovated interior with “Scannell Boiler Works” insignia on lounge wall. Wannalancit Textile Co. on Suffolk Street, sign over entrance. Bird weather vane. Antique Ford truck parked outside. Mechanized loom weaving white cloth. Big spools and spindles of thread. Rhythmic sounds of machines. Close-up on old moving parts with lint and grease. Long view down factory floor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1978
Description: MIT astronomy lab environs. Racks of big reels of computer data. LED display on Heathkit unit. Students at keyboards with CRT monitors. Plotter printer. Equations on chalkboard. Shelves of round disk packs with clear plastic covers; student removes one from drive. Oscilloscope. Computer commands being typed out on printer. Handwritten charts on wall. Observations notebooks titled “Worldwide X-ray burst watch.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1978

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
Description: Macaque (rhesus) monkeys at Harvard Medical School primate research center in Southborough. Group of about 20 monkeys constantly jump, climb and scamper around large observation chamber lined with wood shavings. They are social and extremely active. Lab environs with baby monkeys in individual cages and incubators. Technicians hold, clean, bottle feed, burp them. Close-up on two monkeys hugging.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/03/1978
Description: Massport shipping container terminal. Sign on truck “King for Governor.” Freight containers stacked two and three high. Tractor trailers parked in truck bays. Overhead hoisting equipment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/10/1978