Description: Three-story wood-frame house from Neptune Road in East Boston being moved slowly on giant tractor trailer on Frankfort Street. (Many houses were relocated from area because of Logan runway noise.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978
Description: Driving past Newbury Street storefronts and buildings. Emmanuel Church, Society of Arts and Crafts, Diutshfurs, Kakas Furs, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Cuoio, Priscilla Bridal, Josephs. Along Boylston Street - Sheraton Towers next to Pru, Lord & Taylor, Hotel Lenox, Boston Public Library, glass Hancock tower next to Trinity Church, Elkins, Louis, The Fatted Calf, Ken's, Malbens Gourmet, Casual Corner, Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Charles Street traffic, brick sidewalks, The Lyric Stage. Driving past brick rowhouses on Beacon Hill. Wrought iron balconies. Lower Commonwealth Avenue with grassy mall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1978
Description: Suffolk County district attorney-elect Newman Flanagan appoints two assistants, Paul Buckley and Paul Leary. Takes questions about ongoing cases. Endorses mandatory sentencing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/29/1978
Description: Newsroom of South Middlesex News. VDTs (video display terminals) outnumber electric typewriters. Wire machines. Paste-up artists crop photos with exacto knife, lay out pages. Several people smoke as they work. Computer punch tape in ribbons on floor. Man working at phototypesetting machine. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: Editor Bob Moore at South Middlesex News shows how copy is typed, formatted and corrected on VDT monitor, new electronic equipment to the newsroom. Close-up of hands on computer keyboard. He inserts numerical codes for type size, headline size, column width. “Makes for better typing…no more proofreaders…reporters love it…it lifts them psychologically.” Paper has been largely eliminated from the newsroom. Composing room jobs reduced and people retrained. Cost savings put toward buying the technology and enhancing the editorial staff. Cartoonist working in pen and ink; his drawings posted on the wall. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: B-roll Footage of Stockbridge streets and people. Shot of Norman Rockwell art for sale. People gathered outside the church, the casket arrives and is carried in past onlookers. More footage of people and the town. Shot of the hearse. End shot a close-up of one of Rockwell's paintings. Wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/12/1978
Description: Blank image with reporter voice over about Norman Rockwell's funeral and the town he lived in. Brief shot of people lined up outside the church as the casket is carried in and a shot of the church bells as they ring. Followed by blank image with reporter voice over. Sound drops out for a few seconds near the end. Sound. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/12/1978
Description: Silent b-roll footage of buildings and streets around Stockbridge. This is 1 of 3 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Norman Rockwell dies early this a.m. We go to Stockbridge where he lived and talk with some of the people who knew him, including some of his models."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/09/1978
Description: Footage of houses around Stockbridge and the town. B-roll of reporter interviewing a man. Blank image with reporter voice over. Interview with one of the townspeople, Ed Lock, who posed for one of Rockwell's paintings. Blank image with reporter voice over. Sound. This is 2 of 3 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Norman Rockwell dies early this a.m. We go to Stockbridge where he lived and talk with some of the people who knew him, including some of his models."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/09/1978
Description: Blank image with reporter voice over about Rockwell. Interview with a man from Stockbridge. Blank image with reporter voice over about funeral. Interview with David Mackey about what it was like posing for Rockwell. Still image of one of Rockwell's paintings. More interview with the man from before. Silent shot of a house. Mix of sound and silent. This is 3 of 3 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Norman Rockwell dies early this a.m. We go to Stockbridge where he lived and talk with some of the people who knew him, including some of his models."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/09/1978