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South Boston High School

Description: South Boston High. Walking shot down corridor and dark stairs. In library, a group of black and white students discuss their experience in school since desegregation started four years ago. They attest to better educational programs and improved racial harmony now. “No fights.” They think police presence in the early years worsened tension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South Boston High School

Description: Empty classroom at South Boston High School. Mr. Healey's science class, mostly black students, sparsely attended. Geology principles written on blackboard and other science posters on classroom walls. Boy writes in spiral notebook. Students in the hallway. Boys in mechanical shop class. Black and white boys play basketball in gym. Black teacher works with black student on vocabulary lesson. Students do class work at desks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South Boston High School

Description: South Boston High exterior. Parking space designated for press. Graffiti on street: “print the truth.” Two Boston police officers in front of school. Five school buses approach with lights blinking. Mostly black students stream off buses, go up steps to school entrance. Jerome Wynegar walks up. More buses arrive with black students. Long line of buses depart, descend hill. Students enter main hallway, walk through metal detector. Close-up on needle meter. Students in art class draw on large sheets of paper; teacher gives individual attention. Shots of empty classroom, with PA announcements being made in the background. Walking shot down dark hallway with lockers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South Boston High School

Description: English class of four white students at South Boston High School. Teacher addresses whole class and works individually with students. Students work on essays at desk. Teacher talks to one student about restructuring his essay. View from second story window onto parking lot and over rooftops of South Boston buildings and houses. Boston Police Tactical Patrol Force cruiser drives off. Three white students in math class.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South End pumping station

Description: South End pumping station and sewage treatment plant. Equipment inside, pipes labelled hot water, cold water, vent. Pressure gauge, motor, flow chart. Control panel with switches and alarms. Sign on exterior: Pollution Abatement and Flood Control Facility, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1978

Southeast Expressway, Columbia Station

Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

Speak & Spell

Description: Little girl uses Speak & Spell computer toy with synthesized voice. Interview with man from Texas Instruments about development of this learning tool game with integrated speech, and on future applications of speech recognition and synthesis technology.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/25/1978

State House Renovation

Description: Footage of State House interior renovation. Construction workers laying plywood, sawing, hammering. Close shots of tools on construction site; interior structure; people at work.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1978

State House exteriors

Description: State House exteriors in summer. Several views including looking up Park Street. Straight on and angle perspectives. Golden dome, cupola. Henry Cabot Lodge statue.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1978