Description: Video starts with radio broadcast over color bars. WBCN disc jockey Charles Laquidara in the booth. Editor's note: Sound edited out for rights reasons.
Description: Interview with Al from MDC about Charles River pollution from combined sewer overflows, storm drains, and urban runoff. Aggregation of debris floating on the water.
Description: Interview with Rita of Charles River Watershed Association on development and history of Charles River. Talks about industrial discharge and cleanup, land use along banks, sewage, condition of fish life and vegetation.
Description: Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus at Boston Garden. Ringmaster says “the greatest show on earth.” Clowns, unicyclists, promenade of horses, zebras, camels, elephants with sequined serapes. Stilts walker, little people, acrobats, music. reel 1 of 2
Description: Computer medicine lab at Beth Israel Hospital. Demonstration of test program asking questions on screen in French or Spanish of patient visiting clinic for certain medical problems. Patient would answer via keyboard. If no complications, computer issues prescription appropriate for diagnosis. Printout of examples of computer generated dialogue. Inside computer room -- CPUs labelled “Sherlock” and “Mycroft,” tapes on shelves, teletype-like printer. Outside main entrance to hospital.
Description: Construction of Alewife red line station and parking garage. Traffic pauses on adjacent parkway. W.R. Grace tower in background. Hard hat men working in subway tunnel. Pan environs from high vantage point. Rotary at start of Route 2. Snow flurries. Crane.