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Abandoned housing in Dorchester

Description: Interviews with Dorchester residents on Dorchester Fair Share's effort to get HUD or city of Boston to sell vacant properties to people who would rehabilitate them and pay taxes. B-roll of abandoned house on Bowdoin Street, Dorchester. Trashed interior. Other houses with boarded up windows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/19/1976

Artists' housing

Description: Interview with artist about living and working in his loft in leather district, Boston. Studio interior, open paint cans, brushes, finished painting on white wall. Kitchen and sleeping space adjacent to gallery. Large warehouse windows exuding natural light. Interview with Liz Dworkin about need for artists' housing and dispute with BRA and developers over zoning and rents. Exteriors on South Street: Keeler Leather Co., Barney's Uniform, Proctor Ellison Co., Seamon Steen Co., Berman Leather, Cornhill Magazine & Book Co., Siegel Leather, building facades.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1976

East Boston environs

Description: East Boston Central Square. Revving sound of bus engine. Central Grille, Broadway Stationers, East Boston Social Centers. Facade of old Barnes School with Aeolian columns. Driving along and panning residential streets.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/18/1976

Hancock Tower dedication

Description: Dedication ceremony of John Hancock glass tower, in lobby. General James M. Gavin is introduced and addresses the audience. Gavin and other speakers talk about the history of the building project. Thomas O'Neill and Kevin White are also on stage. Unveiling of massive reproduction of Declaration of Independence on wall of lobby. English High School chorus sings patriotic songs. Hundreds of guests crowded in lobby.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/15/1976

Harvard Medical School

Description: Exteriors of Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus. Main building with ionic columns on Shattuck Street. A few students in front of the building. Countway library next door. Audio goes in and out throughout.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1976

High shots of Boston

Description: High, wide, long shots of Boston environs from observation deck of Hancock Tower. Nearly aerial views of South End, Charles River, Boston Harbor, State House, and orange line T moving along elevated tracks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/10/1976

Melville Avenue, Dorchester

Description: Interior architectural details and decor of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interview with homeowner Marlene Knight about why her family moved from suburbs to that neighborhood. Interview with Arthur Glass about why he bought house there. Both seek racially mixed area and affordability in the city.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976

Melville Avenue, Dorchester

Description: Ornate and intricate architectural details of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interior and exterior. Dorchester environs. Ornately furnished rooms, stained glass windows, carved woodwork, chandelier, grand fireplace. People's conversation about the neighborhood and property values overheard in the background. Shot of the Channel 2 news van through the stained glass front door. Several takes of reporter standup on the property values of the Melville Avenue area of Dorchester.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976

Old City Hall

Description: Grand facade of Boston's Old City Hall (now housing Maison Robert restaurant). Marker for Freedom Trail and information booth on edge of Boston Common. People walk through the park, gather around information booth. Sign for Freedom Trail. Boston Common environs. People getting off Peter Pan bus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1976