Description: Erich Kunzel conducts Boston Pops Orchestra in rehearsal for New Year's Eve concert. Several views of Symphony Hall stage with seasonal decorations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/31/1979
Description: Malfunctioning LRVs (light rail vehicles) parked in maintenance yard of Riverside terminal of green line. Shattered windshield, missing headlights, upturned seats in instruction car. Overhead cables attached to poles. Trailers for Boeing Vertol product support and Kaiser Engineers. Wide shot of yard, tracks, garage.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1979
Description: People buying lobsters at Bay State Lobster. Lobsters removed from tank, placed on scale, put in paper bags, some crated. Displays of seafood for sale. Newly caught lobsters, tightly packed, claws banded, move around in crate. Interview with proprietor on falling prices and fluctuation of supply and demand. Boston is principal lobster distribution point.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/07/1979
Description: Passengers in ticket lines in international terminal at Logan. Distinctive Braniff planes painted bright colors. Luggage. Taxiing TWA and American Airlines jets. Reporter explains Braniff's trademark - brightly colored planes, leather seats, flying routes other airlines do not. Braniff plans to use Boston as its gateway to European air travel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1979
Description: Courtroom sketches of McKee Berger Mansueto (MBM) corruption trial. Key players depicted: Stephen Delinsky, James Reardon, Albert Toots Manzi, one of the Masiello brothers, Anthony Mansueto, Jack Thomas, Frank Sargent, John Volpe.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1979
Description: MBTA Power Plant, South Boston. Power plant environmentals. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1979
Description: MIT Flight Simulator, air traffic control radar monitor shots, interview with Mr. Connelly about his proposal to FAA regarding changing current practices to minimize the number of airline near-miss accidents. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1979
Description: Night footage of different people carrying body bags on stretchers through the woods. Daytime footage of the coast and the exterior of a house with trees damaged by the crash. Interview with the man who lives in the house and heard parts of the plane hit the roof. Shot of damaged tree and the plane wreckage. Interview with a man about the crash. Reporter standup in front of the plane wreckage. Interview with one of the responders to the crash about the one survivor. Exterior footage of the Penobscot Bay Medical Center, the Downeast Airlines hangar, and a Downeast plane. Silent night footage of responders inspecting the plane wreckage. Mix of sound, wild sound, and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "A small plane from Downeast Airlines went down last night killing 17 people, and injuring one."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/31/1979
Description: Footage of the plane wreckage, damaged tree, pile of luggage, and men looking around the crash site. Wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "A small plane from Downeast Airlines went down last night killing 17 people, and injuring one."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/31/1979
Description: Runners at starting line. Footage of runners during the race. Interview with the winner about running in the cold. Sound muffled and crackly. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Child Abuse Marathon - 300 people running for benefit of helping to fight child abuse."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/11/1979