Description: Man gives scholarly history of theater architecture in Boston, commenting on Boston's Theater District - Saxon (Majestic), Colonial, Wilbur, Tremont, Music Hall (Metropolitan). Includes interior details of Saxon - red velvet curtains and rails; gilded rococo balconies; relief of fruit, flowers, leaves, masks, angels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1977
Description: Boston Common, Public Garden, John Hancock building, Prudential Center, Commonwealth Avenue, Boylston and Charles Streets, Government Center, snow falling, people playing in the snow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1985
Description: South Station Fort Point Channel environs. Giant Hood milk bottle concession stand. Congress Street Wharf sign: “future home of Children's Museum and Museum of Transportation.” Brick industrial buildings. Traffic over bridge. View toward Federal Reserve Bank. Sign on roof: Boston Wharf Company Industrial Real Estate. Barbershop pole. Several ‘for sale’ signs on commercial properties. Varied fenestration on adjacent facades — window patterns of different architectural styles. Zoom in to Anthony's Pier 4 restaurant on distant wharf. Chinese storefronts and leather business signs on South Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1979
Description: Congested traffic around South Station, Fort Point Channel bridge. Gridlock. High wide shots. Giant milk bottle statue on Museum Wharf. Lobster traps on wharf. Custom House. Northern Avenue bridge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1986
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
Description: Massachusetts State House interiors. Senate door with sign on transom. House of Representatives door. House chamber empty; wide shot of rows of seats, podium, balcony. Reporter and camera operator discuss shots off camera. Several takes of reporter standup on the new 1979 state congress, specifically the power of Speaker Tom McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978
Description: Environs shots for story on Steaming Kettle coffee shop closing. Downtown environs, Summer Street at Winter Street. People, traffic, buildings around Downtown Crossing. Jordan Marsh Company sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1990
Description: Boston theater district environs. Saxon to be renovated into Emerson College Majestic. Hotel Bradford. Wilbur Theater long shot. Looking down Tremont Street to Wang Center sign for “The Real Thing” by Tom Stoppard directed by Mike Nichols. “Cats” on Shubert marquee. City Place and Four Seasons Hotel under construction near Transportation Building. Ornate upper facade of Saxon. Edge of Park Plaza. Hard hat workers, cranes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/05/1984
Description: Implosion of Travelers Insurance building in Boston will clear site for new development. File of Hotel Madison demolition (1983). Jane Holtz Kay. Animated simulation of razing old building and raising new one.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/04/1988
Description: Interiors of Boston City Hall. Kevin White holds press conference on the Tregor Bill. Exteriors of Boston City Hall from several angles. Kevin White answers questions from the press. He specifically talks about the role of the fire department union in the Tregor Bill negotiations. Interview with man answering further questions on the legal and staffing issues concerning the Tregor Bill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1981