Description: Interview with Charlie Vasiliades about survival of Oak Square School on Nonantum Street in Brighton, being considered for closing. Last wood frame schoolhouse in Boston, serves integrated student body of 100. Small building with yellow clapboard exterior, columns, cupola. It might receive historic landmark designation. Nearby houses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1979
Description: General Oil / Reading Oil truck. Driver attaches hose to fill pipe on side of house. Finishes delivery, prints bill from meter, leaves it in mail slot, drives off. General Oil office. Maintenance truck pulls up. Worker takes tools out of side compartment. Inside office clerk enters billing information at computer keyboard. Printout on perforated paper lists data by billing code.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1979
Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979
Description: Fair to raise money for Opera Company of Boston sponsored and broadcast by WCRB. Interview with young children who say they like opera. Male vocalist with piano accompaniment performs in lobby of Opera House. Sarah Caldwell talks about restoring theater with deeper stage, better acoustics, new seats for $6 million.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1979
Description: Seiji Ozawa rehearses with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and female vocalist. Then Ravel's "Bolero." Orchestra tunes up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979
Description: Landfill dump in New Bedford. Seagulls hover over trash. Contaminated with PCBs from industrial waste. Aerovox capacitor manufacturer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1979
Description: Interview with Paul Mooney, president of Boston Garden and Bruins, on construction of new stadium versus renovating existing structure. Pan interior of Garden, empty seats, basketball hoops, scoreboard. Bruins and Celtics championship banners suspended from rafters. Maintenance workers mop parquet basketball floor. Marquee of upcoming games.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1979
Description: Pilgrim I nuclear power plant exteriors in Plymouth. Atomic energy symbol on building. Boston Edison sign. Water flowing out to sea in discharge channel. Pan grounds to transformers and high tension wires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/05/1979
Description: Inside plastics factory in Leominster. Brushes, molded bottle caps and other parts being stamped out on assembly line. Industrial noise. Young workers put together components of red plastic jugs with handles and spouts, label and pack finished product. Woman separates, trims and packs pink hairbrushes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1979
Description: Telephone survey about Boston and state elected officials. Pollsters make phone calls, fill in responses on typed questionnaires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1979