Description: Police officer in front of door to home. Crowd on street. Stretcher with body bag carried out door and down stairs through crowd on street and loaded into hearse. Shot of cars in street. Footage is a little dark with wild sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/04/1979
Description: 11 B+W wire service photos of South Boston residents opposing busing. Helmet bearing legend "Southie is my home town." Man with loudspeaker in car. Van with sign flipped upside down "Boston Under Siege." "Forced busing? Never!" under three-leaf clover. South Boston Information Center and Home School Association storefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1979
Description: South Station Fort Point Channel environs. Giant Hood milk bottle concession stand. Congress Street Wharf sign: “future home of Children's Museum and Museum of Transportation.” Brick industrial buildings. Traffic over bridge. View toward Federal Reserve Bank. Sign on roof: Boston Wharf Company Industrial Real Estate. Barbershop pole. Several ‘for sale’ signs on commercial properties. Varied fenestration on adjacent facades — window patterns of different architectural styles. Zoom in to Anthony's Pier 4 restaurant on distant wharf. Chinese storefronts and leather business signs on South Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1979
Description: Traffic on Mass. Turnpike in Newton and on Route 128. State police set up radar speed trap. Three troopers stand on shoulder of highway. They pull over car of teenagers who go through their wallets to produce identification.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1979
Description: Children play in Wainwright Park in St. Mark's parish neighborhood of Dorchester. Younger boys ride bicycles and older youth congregate. Driving past multifamily houses on Welles Avenue and vicinity. Row of triple deckers facing vacant lot.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/04/1979
Description: Mostly women in clerical jobs at state office building 1 Ashburton Place. Gray metal desks, rotary dial phone. Civil servants, office workers, state employees. Tall file cabinets. Rows of shelves full of manila folders. Paperwork, bureaucracy, rubber stamping forms. In-baskets, manual typewriters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1979
Description: Footage of paintings with wild sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Art Recovered - Police recover more than $2 million in art."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 08/15/1979
Description: Suffolk Downs race track. Starting gates. Wide shot of grounds. Zoom into entrance sign. Blue line trolley passes in background.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1979
Description: Footage from the opening night of the Berklee Performance Center. B-roll of patrons entering the Center and mingling in the lobby, tickets being taken, programs being handed out, and the audience seated in the auditorium. Michael Dukakis opening speech, followed by a speech by a representative from the Berklee Performance Center introducing the night's Jazz program. More footage of both speeches. Part of one of the Jazz performances, and a reading about drums, Africa, and slavery while a man plays bongo drums. Picture is shaky and unsteady throughout. The problem appears to be printed in. The picture and soundtrack were separated on the reel, but synced for the clip. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 1972...1979
Description: Silent for Studio V.O. [voice over]. Footage from the opening night of the Berklee Performance Center. Silent footage includes the audience taking their seats in the auditorium, patrons in the lobby, shots of the "coming events" board, the auditorium and lobby of the performance center, programs for that evening performance, the band playing, and close-ups on some soloists. Picture is shaky and unsteady throughout. The problem appears to be printed in. This reel is the picture, but there is no soundtrack to sync it with. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 1972...1979