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BU and MIT exteriors

Description: Exteriors with snow of Boston University buildings on Commonwealth Avenue. George Sherman Union, Marsh Chapel. Peter Fuller Cadillac Olds building. MIT exteriors along Memorial Drive. Walker Memorial, dome building, gray edifices. Peabody Terrace contemporary complex (Harvard graduate student housing).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

Back Bay environs

Description: Back Bay environs with snow. Commonwealth Avenue mall. Facades of townhouses, street lanterns. Traffic, Kasanoff's bakery truck. Massachusetts Avenue. Prudential Tower. White Hen Pantry Food Store, College House Pharmacy, The Hawk Shops, Chester A. Baker Pharmacy. White Fuel sign atop flatiron building. Kenmore Square storefronts: The Fatted Calf, Strawberries, CVS, Paperback Booksmith, Bottled Liquors, Kenmore Army & Navy Store. Citgo sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1977

Boston Public Library

Description: Several takes of reporter standup on the Boston Public Library having to shut down the bookmobile. Exteriors of Boston Public Library older (McKim) building. Pan of the inscription “The Commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty.” Move to the attached modern building entrance. Interiors of the Library. Sign reads “Effective Sunday, February 13, the Library will be closed on Sundays until further notice.” Patrons in line at circulation desk in lobby. Librarian stamps due dates on borrowing cards. Patrons at reading tables in research room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1977

Cambridge Trust, UMass Boston

Description: Inside Cambridge Trust Company bank customers write checks and present them to tellers to be cashed. Wide shot of UMass Boston contemporary brick buildings along Dorchester Bay. Planes fly low over campus on approach to airport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1977

Charles River views

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

Deer Island prison

Description: Deer Island prison exterior with snow. Main brick dormitory and several outbuildings. Boston skyline across harbor with whitecaps on waves. Plane flying low on approach to Logan Airport touches down on runway in distance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

Harvard Square and rapid transit

Description: Harvard Square environs. Rapid Transit sign over Harvard Square kiosk. Out of Town Tickets. People step off narrow escalator ascending from subway station. T sign, subway system map with “You Are Here,” bus routes map sign. People go downstairs to red line station. Harvard Trust Company sign, Harvard Coop, Nini's Corner. Electric bus with overhead cables. Abandoned red line trolleys parked in MBTA lot behind Harvard Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1977

Kendall Square

Description: B-roll footage of traffic on the outskirts of Kendall Square, focused on a rotary near one lone high-rise building. Clip of Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Department of Transportation building). Footage from moving vehicle of many undeveloped lots under scant snow cover. Clips of pipes in large plot; scarce buildings on surrounding blocks. Still images of Kendall Square map with development plan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/15/1977

Lowell Canal

Description: Lowell Canal, locks, gate, flowing river, snow. Sign on adjacent brick factory building “Lowell Industrial Development Company, 95 Bridge Street, Power, Steam.” Boott Mills entrance. More industrial buildings along water.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/28/1977

Mission Hill public housing

Description: Mission Hill public housing project. Seven-story brick buildings. Children walking through public housing courtyard.Ride through South End passing Columbus Avenue brownstones. Harbor Towers twin high rises; tilt up, sign says “forty floors of luxury living.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1977