Description:
Carpooling. Martin Durault, shots of Kendall Square, Longfellow Bridge, Polaroid. .
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
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Description:
Bill Murray, Christopher Reeve, Stockard Channing and other celebrities assemble at Sanders Theater for a poetry reading. Interview with Reeve on performing in Boston. William Alfred (Harvard professor) on Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/17/1989
Description:
Dick Foote (in voiceover) describes Central Square and plans for renovation over shots of musical performances and people street fairs. Voiceover continues over a shot of Massachusetts Avenue, which fades into a shot of Foote in studio.
After this, interviews with different people:
Geneva Malenfant describes how her family moved to Central Square and what she liked about the neighborhood.
Ken Reeves discusses how, as mayor, he appointed a commission to improve Central Square. He talks about asking a wide variety of people for ideas and describes the significance of the neighborhood.
Carl Barron describes how he first became interested in the neighborhood, and describes how the Central Square Business Association wanted to improve it. He describes the pace of the improvements and how certain groups of people were able to accelerate the pace.
Susan Schlessinger talks about the importance of planning among different groups of people. Schlessinger introduces Steve Carr, urban designer for the renovation project. Carr talks about his goals and working with certain groups on the renovation. He talks about specific improvements and uses a map of the area to show where they will be. He also shows an illustration of the renovated sidewalk area.
George Metzger stands on Massachusetts Avenue and describes the goals of the renovation. At various locations along the street, he talks about some of the planned changes, intercut with illustrations of the locations.
Arnold Goldstein describes the goals of the renovation and the need for a plan to maintain the improvements.
Collection:
CCTV
Description:
General shots of people along Charles River, sunbathing, strolling, biking. Most footage shot from moving car along Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/22/1981
Description:
Elevated view of Cambridge from Boston side of Charles River. Sailboats. Traffic over Longfellow Bridge. Then reverse view of Boston: State House golden dome with cupola. Prudential building in far right frame. Old Hancock adjacent to new Hancock with reflective surface. Pan west over MIT buildings on Cambridge side at a distance. Red line T train crosses river approaching Charles Circle.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/31/1977
Description:
Chinese student at Harvard Medical School is concerned about expiration of his visa (in wake of Beijing uprising), though federal program extends his stay for at least another year.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/07/1989
Description:
Cambridge Mayor Alice Wolf ceremonially throws out last Folgers packet to announce city boycott of Salvadoran coffee. "Neighbor to Neighbor" boycott ad.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/26/1990
Description:
Academics, Colleges and Universities. Exterior shots of Harvard dorms. .
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/28/1982
Description:
1) Profile of cellist Yo-Yo Ma by his childhood friend Charles Bennett. Benjamin Zander, Lyn Chang. 2) Memories of drive-in movie theaters; owner Harry Loew. (Lisa Schmid) 3) B.F. Skinner's experiments with pigeons' learned behavior. (Michal Regunberg) 4) Party for famous Bostonians who graced the cover of Time magazine; Ruth Gordon. (Regunberg) 5) Musical fence sculpture by Paul Matisse installed in front of Cambridge City Hall; passersby play it; Mayor Alfred Vellucci (Deborah Trustman) 6) Photographers Charles Kimball and Randy Goodman took pictures of ordinary life in Iran. (Vince Canzoneri) 7) POS on minority residents' apprehension toward census; Commerce Department undertakes outreach to Hispanic population; Rep. Saundra Graham. (Karen Holmes) 8) City youth train in boxing at McDonough gym in South Boston; fighters in championship in Fall River PAL gym. (Howard Husock) 9) Susan Stamberg interviews Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor, Washington Post.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/01/1980
Description:
Regina Maris ship. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg unveils JFK sculpture model. Michael Dukakis and William Bulger pose for picture with the statue. Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubynin give speech at Kennedy Library on nuclear weapons control; Jerome Wiesner, McGeorge Bundy, Ted Sorenson, Edward Kennedy. Christian Science Twitchells story. Steven Pierce on revenue in the State House chambers. Massachusetts National Guard building. Illegal immigrant raid at Suffolk Downs. Justice Department seal. Excerpts from Charles Stark Draper films, including lecture, "Theory of Inertial Guidance" from 1961, "The Airplane at Play" from 1931, with audio from a 1976 lecture, and 1976 dedication ceremony in Technology Square.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
04/01/1988
