Description: Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Description: Mail sorting facility at South Boston Annex of US Postal Service. Workers (one wears ear protection) sit in long line, each next to robotic arm that grabs individual envelopes and feeds them through equipment. In another room, contents of big sacks are dumped onto belt for manual sorting. Letters move past worker who keys in code for each.
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.
Description: Pull back to extreme wide shot of Mystic River Bridge. Zoom in to ship below. Pan length of bridge with double decker traffic. Massachusetts Port Authority Mystic Fish Pier building. Green support structure of elevated highway. “King for Governor” sign on car. Container terminal. Hoisting equipment offloads freight from ship. Containers of many colors stacked and spread across pier like building blocks. Traffic on bridge toward and away from camera. Cars and trucks approach toll plaza. Back on Massport terminal, massive lifting apparatus grabs and deposits containers. Flatbed truck without container.