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“Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery”

Description: Explanation of origin and effect of acid rain. Ominous smokestacks. Deteriorating building surfaces. Blue- lit Lincoln Memorial. Impact on food crops, non- cultivated vegetation, water bodies, and marine life. Spotted salamander, peeper frog. Deformed amphibian embryos. 1982 documentary from National Film Board of Canada.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

“Classics of Political TV Advertising”

Description: Selection of political ads from 1952-84 campaigns for president, Congress, Senate, governor, mayor. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, George McGovern, George Bush, Gary Hart, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Howard Baker, Al Gore, Malcolm Wallop, Byron Dorgan, Fred Harris, Bruce Babbitt, Dutch Morial, John Connally, Jim Slattery, Nelson Rockefeller, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ronald Reagan, Mitch McConnell, Lloyd Doggett, Carl Levin, Leon Panetta, John Tower, Jim Maddox, Chuck Percy, Harold Washington, John Glenn, Denny Smith, Ty Fahner, Phil Gramm, Everett Dirksen, Warren Magnuson, John Melcher, Gordon Humphrey, Arch Moore, James Shannon, Peter Shapiro. Narrated by Eugene McCarthy, produced by Campaigns & Elections.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

“Crisis in Yankee Agriculture”

Description: Decline of Massachusetts farming. Film transfer. ©1978 Peter Feinstein and Mark Kramer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

“Duke & Bush tied in Mass. polls!”

Description: Interviews with shoppers to explore reasons for Bush's gain and apparent tie with Dukakis in poll of Massachusetts voters. Herald headline.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988

“Fort Devens: the winter experience”

Description: Film transfer of “Fort Devens: the winter experience” (Public Affairs Division of Fort Devens, 1976). Soldiers in white suits on cross-country skis and snowshoes. Practice mountaineering skill on sheer vertical training tower. Submerge in icy water. Combat engineer battalion carves road, makes bridge of timbers, places explosives and detonates. Army Security Training Center students learn electronic warfare and cryptology. Female teacher in uniform. Special forces jump and deploy parachutes. Fort Devens salutes neighboring Littleton and hosts community ski cup race as part of good civic relations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1976

“In Pursuit of Old Ironsides”

Description: In Pursuit of Old Ironsides. USS Constitution.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/23/1983

“La Bête”

Description: Excerpts of “La Bête” and interview with actor Tom McGowan who got the lead role as an understudy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1991

“Nuclear Power in New England”

Description: “Nuclear Power in New England.” Yankee Atomic Electric plant in Rowe, Massachusetts. Connecticut Yankee, Millstone I and II. Nuclear engineer Vicki Swisher explains how power is generated. Signs in at security desk, tours control room. Processing of mined rocks and soil to extract, purify, pelletize uranium 235 for conversion to fuel bundles. Refueling of rods in reactor core. Men in yellow protective suits. Pressurized steam lines to turbine turn generator. Cooling towers. Low level radioactive waste being trucked away (to where?) in steel container for disposal. Marine biologist explains aquatic environmental testing for damage to sea life. Health physicist explains air quality monitoring for emissions. Pilgrim Station in Plymouth, Maine Yankee, Vermont Yankee plants. ©1977 Electric Council of New England.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977

“Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens”

Description: Film transfer of “Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens” (©1977) from The National Citizens Committee for Justice for J.P. Stevens Workers. Pounding sound of mechanical looms. Stevens Tower in New York City. Interview with textile workers who voice complaints about employee treatment, poor conditions, lack of training, safety violations, low wages, climate of intimidation, hostility to the union. Mills in the Carolinas. Workers leave factory, seen through chain link fence. Workers vote to organize with Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977

“Wanted: 6 rms., affordable”

Description: Examination of the shortage of affordable housing locally.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1985