Description: Lawrence Maid Footwear, division of W.R. Grace. Workers, including many older women, exit shoe factory at end of shift. Lawrence Maid Footwear employs approximately 750 people, decreased from 2,200 in 1969. The reporter explains the decline of the shoe industry in the US. Inside, women stitch shoe parts rapidly on old sewing machines. Punch clock and time cards on wall. Great expanse of factory space, rows of fluorescent lights. Unused machines covered in plastic. Large spools of thread on shelves.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1977
Description: Various brands of predigested liquid protein on shelf at Arlington Health Foods. Book “Last Chance Diet” by Dr. Robert Linn. Interview with store manager on demand for the product, what type of customers use it, how successful they are losing weight. Vats of bulk grains. Shelves of vitamins and supplements. Customers paying at counter. Storefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1977
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
Description: Christopher Lydon commentaries from Washington DC, on national politics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1977
Description: Lydon sampler of Washington DC commentaries. Variety of topics and interviews tangential to early days of Carter presidency. (1977)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977
Description: [Mahoney Family Murder case] B-roll of newspaper article and drawing of murder scene. More b-roll of divers looking for the gun in a river in Manchester New Hampshire. Silent. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/25/1977
Description: Mike Taibbi standup regarding the cost to the state of keeping Donald Wilson and the overall cost of the Mahoney family murder investigation and trial. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/19/1977
Description: [Mahoney Family Murder case] Mike Taibbi standup and and b-roll of divers looking for gun in a river in Manchester New Hampshire. Picture dark in some sections and high contrast. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/25/1977
Description: No picture with reporter voice track for the first half of the reel about the witnesses for the prosecution that testified that day in court in the Mahoney Family Murder Trial. Reporter standup in front of the Middlesex County courthouse for the second half. Sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/06/1977
Description: Edited feature on runners in the Boston Marathon and the special connection that they have with the crowd. This reels contains footage of runners and spectators, an interview with one runner and closing voice over commentary by reporter Joe Day. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Along the way- someone has to lose and this is the Neighborhood Joe sidebar."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/18/1977