Description: Funding for community residences for mentally ill has been cut back despite long waiting list and program success.Interior of group home and file of patient living independently. Henry Tomes, Edward Murphy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1989
Description: Commuter boat between Hingham and Boston offers an alternative to traffic jams. Parking is a problem at both ends.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988
Description: Jon Solins inserts CD of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in WGBH radio listening room. Early compact disc player.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1983
Description: 1) Profile of cellist Yo-Yo Ma by his childhood friend Charles Bennett. Benjamin Zander, Lyn Chang. 2) Memories of drive-in movie theaters; owner Harry Loew. (Lisa Schmid) 3) B.F. Skinner's experiments with pigeons' learned behavior. (Michal Regunberg) 4) Party for famous Bostonians who graced the cover of Time magazine; Ruth Gordon. (Regunberg) 5) Musical fence sculpture by Paul Matisse installed in front of Cambridge City Hall; passersby play it; Mayor Alfred Vellucci (Deborah Trustman) 6) Photographers Charles Kimball and Randy Goodman took pictures of ordinary life in Iran. (Vince Canzoneri) 7) POS on minority residents' apprehension toward census; Commerce Department undertakes outreach to Hispanic population; Rep. Saundra Graham. (Karen Holmes) 8) City youth train in boxing at McDonough gym in South Boston; fighters in championship in Fall River PAL gym. (Howard Husock) 9) Susan Stamberg interviews Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor, Washington Post.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1980
Description: Collection of briefs, VOT/SOTs, and stories on: 1) Boston Herald American unions and sale to Rupert Murdoch; newspapers in sidewalk vending box, plant exterior, comments from employees. Interview with Australian journalist Nigel Wade, Michael Wheeler, Stephen Mindich. 2) Hotel workers union fights for better wages and benefits, threatens strike, gets settlement. Cooks, maid, doorman at work. Studio interview with Local 26 president Domenic Bozzotto.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1982
Description: Regina Maris ship. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg unveils JFK sculpture model. Michael Dukakis and William Bulger pose for picture with the statue. Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubynin give speech at Kennedy Library on nuclear weapons control; Jerome Wiesner, McGeorge Bundy, Ted Sorenson, Edward Kennedy. Christian Science Twitchells story. Steven Pierce on revenue in the State House chambers. Massachusetts National Guard building. Illegal immigrant raid at Suffolk Downs. Justice Department seal. Excerpts from Charles Stark Draper films, including lecture, "Theory of Inertial Guidance" from 1961, "The Airplane at Play" from 1931, with audio from a 1976 lecture, and 1976 dedication ceremony in Technology Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1988
Description: Inside Computer Mart in Waltham. Customer tries out Sorcerer program. Employee in back room tinkers with electronic components. Stands display personal computing magazines and manuals. Altair 8800 CPU. Printer types left to right and right to left. Strip mall storefront with 'for lease' sign. Interview with proprietor about outgrowing the location because personal computer business has multiplied rapidly. He sells systems to hobbyists and small businesses in cost range of $1,000 to $20,000.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1978
Description: Leader: Event 14 A - P2 Computer Pricing #10378C 10/31/74; Interview with a cashier and a store manager at a grocery store about a new electronic cash register. Footage of the cash register, people shopping, items being scanned and checkout out. Interview with a customer about the new register and receipts. Chet Curtis reporter standup. Outtakes include more footage of people grocery shopping, item prices and barcodes, groceries being scanned, and inteviews.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/31/1974
Description: Footage of various booths and exhibits at the Computer Caravan, a traveling computer and technology show that was traveling on to 27 other cities and 6 other countries. Reporter closing standup. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/13/1973
Description: Examples of computer animation exhibited at Computer Museum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1989