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Blizzard second day

Description: Blizzard of '78. Snow falling and blowing. People digging out on Western Avenue. Plow on Storrow Drive. Chains on truck tires. Students and dogs on Harvard Square streets blanketed with snow. Cross-country skiers and people on snowshoes. Shots inside the news van, with radio reports on blizzard in the background. People trudge along Mt. Auburn St. and Mass. Avenue in Cambridge; some carry provisions on sleds. Massachusetts Avenue street sign. Man shovels out storefront. Deep snow banks. Tractor trailer jackknifed on Mass Ave. bridge over Charles River. People wait in line in front of White Hen Pantry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1978

Charlestown Navy Yard

Description: Interview on redevelopment of Charlestown Navy Yard. Environs of dry dock and old structures of yard. Mast of USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Bulldozer clearing construction site. Several camera moves inside building 42. Glimpses of waterfront, Bunker Hill Monument, tug boat and container ship in harbor, buildings around Navy Yard, Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Construction sign “Charlestown Shipyard Park.” Old wharf building made of big granite blocks. Large wooden industrial building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1978

Distrigas

Description: Interview with Mr. DeVito on benefit of Distrigas to Everett; danger and safety issues of transporting LNG, especially in light of recent accidents in Mexico and Spain involving liquefied gases other than methane. Says the industry is well regulated. Tanks, storage facilities, ship. Edison plant and six smokestacks on waterfront. Wide of entire Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Variety of warning signs at Distrigas plant: “no trespassing,” “razor wire,” “beware attack dog,” “no smoking,” “private road.” Barbed wire atop chain link fence. Indianhead Gas truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1978

Massport container terminal

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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/10/1978

Pier 4

Description: Anthony's Pier 4 and ship “Peter Stuyvesant” sinking next to restaurant as a result of blizzard damage earlier in the year. Tobin (Mystic River) Bridge, full view from across water. Discussion between cameraman, reporter, and Anthony's Pier 4 representative on permission to shoot footage of the restaurant and ship. Several takes of reporter standup for story on Ed King's gubernatorial campaign, his spending as head of Massport, and his budget campaign promises. Exterior shots of Jimmy's Harborside restaurant, and TASC office building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/03/1978

View from Fed roof

Description: Unique long, wide, and panoramic view of Logan runways against blue Boston Harbor and sky, as seen from top of Federal Reserve building. Planes taxi and take off. Next, looking across traffic on expressway toward North End buildings in distance. View of expressway framed between two high rises in financial district. Wide of Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Charlestown Navy Yard in foreground. Another wide landscape, almost abstract, of Logan runways. Follow plane into sky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1978