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Mt. Auburn Nurses, pt. 1

Description: Women on a balcony with a sign that reads "Thanks for the memories" hanging a string of their uniforms out the window. Wild sound. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Mt. Auburn Nurses... hang their uniforms outside the dormitory windows to let the world know that they've completed their courses and training to become nurses and are ready to assume their places in the world of medicine."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/01/1977

Mt. Auburn Nurses, pt. 2

Description: Women on a balcony with a sign that reads "Thanks for the memories" hanging a string of their uniforms out the window cheering and celebrating. Shot of a dog. Silent shot of a building out of a window. Mix of silent and wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Mt. Auburn Nurses... hang their uniforms outside the dormitory windows to let the world know that they've completed their courses and training to become nurses and are ready to assume their places in the world of medicine."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/01/1977

Mural Painted Over

Description: Footage of a mural of a hot air balloon on the side of a Holiday Inn, painters painting over the mural, and shots of people watching from below. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/28/1977

Music Hall

Description: Grand lobby, interior of Music Hall. Ornate chandelier, marble columns, heavenly mural. Gilded architectural details — carved moldings, capitals, medallions, angels. Interview with Harry Lodge, who gives history of Music Hall (formerly Metropolitan Theater), originally designed in 1920s by Clarence Blackhall for Vaudeville and movies. Describes the proposed restoration program to be completed in fall 1980 if lease secured and funds raised. In order to bring the Metropolitan Opera to Boston, the theater needs deeper stage for performing arts, updated communication systems, ventilation systems, and a renovated auditorium (seats 4,300). The theater is used for ballet, concerts, movies. Lodge states that this renovation with revitalize Boston as a major center for the performing arts. Lodge shows a drawing of the proposed plan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977

Music Hall reception

Description: Fundraising reception for revamping of The Music Hall into the Metropolitan Theatre as a venue for ballet and opera. Gathering of Boston Brahmins. Wine, hors d'oeuvres, string quartet. Archival photo of grand interior of original theater. Betty Cook, Harry Lodge, Clara Wainwright.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977

Name Game

Description: Silent footage of an office and books of marriage records. Interview with a man about name changing regulations in Massachusetts. More silent b-roll of the records office. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Supreme Court ruling yesterday that persons may change their names and use whatever names they choose for themselves."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/05/1977

Nantucket voting pt. 2

Description: Nantucket holds a non-binding vote on seceding from Massachusetts. Interview with a man about taxation without representation. Closing reporter standup. Sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/04/1977

Nantucket voting pt.1

Description: Nantucket holds a non-binding vote on seceding from Massachusetts. Footage of people walking down the street and coming into a polling place, people depositing their ballots, interview with a man about the vote, shots of the Tom Nevers Reservation, and the countryside shot from a moving car. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/04/1977

National Weather Service

Description: National Weather Service station at Logan Airport. Many teletypes printing out forecasts and conditions: “blizzard warning.” Page of high and low temperatures for Caribbean and Central American resort areas in Fahrenheit and Celsius (centigrade). Plot maps with isobars. Wind speed and direction gauges. Man at computer with old CRT monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

New England Aquarium

Description: Waterfront environs. Exterior of the New England Aquarium. Harbor seals.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1977