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Denver School Exhibit

Description: Footage includes shots of several different art projects, children explaining or standing by their project, and adults looking at the projects. Wild Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Exhibit and program coinciding with the groundbreaking for the JFK library."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/12/1977...06/13/1977

Lydon DC sampler #1

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

Quincy Market renovation

Description: Five color photos of Quincy Market under renovation, circa 1977. Courtesy Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977

“Nuclear Power in New England”

Description: “Nuclear Power in New England.” Yankee Atomic Electric plant in Rowe, Massachusetts. Connecticut Yankee, Millstone I and II. Nuclear engineer Vicki Swisher explains how power is generated. Signs in at security desk, tours control room. Processing of mined rocks and soil to extract, purify, pelletize uranium 235 for conversion to fuel bundles. Refueling of rods in reactor core. Men in yellow protective suits. Pressurized steam lines to turbine turn generator. Cooling towers. Low level radioactive waste being trucked away (to where?) in steel container for disposal. Marine biologist explains aquatic environmental testing for damage to sea life. Health physicist explains air quality monitoring for emissions. Pilgrim Station in Plymouth, Maine Yankee, Vermont Yankee plants. ©1977 Electric Council of New England.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977

“Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens”

Description: Film transfer of “Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens” (©1977) from The National Citizens Committee for Justice for J.P. Stevens Workers. Pounding sound of mechanical looms. Stevens Tower in New York City. Interview with textile workers who voice complaints about employee treatment, poor conditions, lack of training, safety violations, low wages, climate of intimidation, hostility to the union. Mills in the Carolinas. Workers leave factory, seen through chain link fence. Workers vote to organize with Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977

Dukakis and Harrington

Description: Michael Dukakis and Kevin Harrington
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1977

Oil tankers in Boston harbor

Description: Oil tankers and cargo ships in Boston harbor. Sunlight reflects off of oil tanker. Snow on pier. Woman reports that approximately a week prior, the Grand Zenith, a 642 foot tanker disappeared, or perhaps sunk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1977

Pine Street Inn

Description: Pine Street Inn guests. Forlorn white and black homeless men crowded on benches, smoking, talking, joking, eating. Exterior Pine Street Inn sign with snow. Pam Bullard interviews shelter director Paul Sullivan on: adversity the men face in winter weather; lack of shelter for women; increase in volunteers and food services. Police escort man into inn. Bullard and Sullivan discuss the shelter's Christmas celebrations, while they shoot cutaways. Bullard does several takes of reporter standup and voice over. Cars and buses driving on snow covered roads. Man shoveling sidewalk. Bullard makes a snow angel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1977

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

Somerville and Arlington libraries

Description: Snowy exterior Somerville municipal complex with library, city hall, high school. Building under construction next to library. Robbins Library in Arlington. Arlington High School and Lowe Memorial Auditorium.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1977

Richard Rowland

Description: Interview with Richard Rowland, director of Massachusetts Association of Elder Americans, on state funding for homemaker services to assist senior citizens with housekeeping and errands and help them stay out of nursing homes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1977

Ice breaker

Description: Ice floes off Nantucket. Coast Guard ice breaker cuts through water. Ship “Uncatena.” Lighthouse. A+P and Cumberland Farms trucks drive off ferry. Rep. George Keverian holds hearing on Cape Cod on redistricting effect on Barnstable and Dukes Counties. Rep. Richard Kendall. From Channel 3 Nantucket.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/15/1977

Jimmy Carter Inauguration parties

Description: Reporter in the studio introduces story on Jimmy Carter Inauguration parties. Some video problems. Reporter voice-over throughout. Footage includes people dancing at the National Visitor's Center, sitting on the floor eating, Carter walking through the crowd shaking hands, Carter and Rosalynn Carter on stage, some of Carter's speech [difficult to hear], the Carters dancing, and a band playing. Some video problems. Reporter voice-over throughout. Poor image quality. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/19/1977

Inaugural Public Prayer Service

Description: label on tape: "Jimmy Carter Inaguration People's Prayer Meeting." Reporter in the studio introduces the story. crowd at the Lincoln Memorial, reporter standup, choir singing, shot of the Lincoln Memorial, Ruth Carter Stapleton reads a bible passage, shots of the crowd, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. speaking, and people signing Amazing Grace. Some video problems. Reporter voice-over throughout. Poor image quality. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/20/1977

Jimmy Carter Inauguration prep

Description: Story on the events going on throughout the week in Washington D.C. leading up to Jimmy Carter's Inauguration and how the cold is disrupting events. Footage includes construction, interviews with different people in a train station from Massachusetts who have come down, a school band performing, a gospel choir, a woman signing in the National Center, people eating and dancing, a young girl performing with a ventriloquist dummy, people ice skating, fireworks. Reporter voice-over throughout. Poor image quality. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/20/1977

Abortion Marches

Description: Crowd of people carrying signs and banners with anti-abortion slogans. Woman singing "Gob Bless America" in front of a crowd. Parade of people pro-choice protesters with signs chanting "Separate church and state." Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Pro and Con from Faneuil Hall to State House commemorating Supreme Court Decision."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1977

Boston University Hockey

Description: Edited footage of a hockey games between Boston University and Boston College. Game ended in a 6-6 tie after overtime. Wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1977

Delahunt kidnapping investigation

Description: Footage of EMTs rushing into a building followed by EMTs coming out with a body on a stretcher and loading it into an ambulance. Interview with the D.A. in office, followed by silent b-roll of the office. Mix of sound and silent. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Delahunt investigation - Into Brookline kidnapping victim's father's shooting death concludes that police killed the man, file film and interview with D.A. [District Attorney] Delahunt."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1977

Charles Street Jail

Description: Charles Street Jail exteriors. A reporter asks members of administration about issues with the Charles Street Jail and Deer Island regarding the possibility of a new combined facility. Stated problems with building a new jail include security and the size of the proposed site. Charles Street physical plant issues include plumbing, recreation facilities, eating facilities, kitchen facilities, and noise level.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1977

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