Aircheck Chronicle: Thurs. March 14 1991 Blacks in the Military;Blacks in the Military; representation of Blacks among every branch of the military is disproportionately high to the general population, though President George Bush characteri...;In the studio Peter Mehegan, Pat Bates, Bob Comiskey, Judi Guild, Art Donahue, Jim Fripp, Curt Reichenbach, Christine Finn, Susan Sloane, Chris Stirling, Mark Mills, Paul LaCame...

Aircheck Thursday April 21, 1988 Black in Business;Blacks in Business; commercials included in taping; even though businesses are actively recruiting Blacks, the population does not feel welcome because there are negative storie...

Aircheck: February 28, 1985 Thursday Chronicle World of Difference Boston Black Community;Boston Black Community History of Black communities in Boston, and questions about Mayor Flynn’s current plan for Roxbury; profile of 93-year-old E. Allice Taylor; Mike Barnicl...;In the studio Mary Richardson, Peter Mehegan, Karen Holmes, Jerry Kirschenbaum;

Chronicle: December 9, 1982 Movie Survey - Peter Goober - Richard Zunuck / David Brown Interview - Black Movies "Tidings from Tinseltown";Movie Survey; Peter Goober; Richard Zunuck; David Brown Interview; Black Movies; the season offers something for everyone; silent video during commercial breaks; Peter Goober is...;Credits: Segment Producers: Rory O’Connor, Arnie Reisman, Karen Holmes; Mike Barnicle’s Column Appears in the Boston Globe; Film Clips Courtesy of: MGM/UA, Entertainment Co., Un...

Chronicle: Aircheck June 30, 1982 Wednesday TS: NAACP FS: Piano PS: Adoption;NAACP convention and a look through its history, and in interview with Benjamin Hooks; Randall Hodgkinson and his piano performances; post on-air video captured. ;In the studio Chet Curtis, Donna Downes;

Chronicle: Aircheck Friday June 25 1982 TS: Test Tube Babies - Casper Weinberger Interview - Martha Vineyard's Blacks;In Vitro-fertilization or "test tube" babies and Eastern Virginia Medical School and Massachusetts laws prohibiting the practice; Casper Weinberger interview on the topic of nuc...;In the studio Chet Curtis, Donna Downes;

Master X-2441;Black inventors are long a part of U.S. history but were denied patents; Inventors are noted for their accomplishments; among them are Booker T. Washington; George Washington C...

This Was America X1404 International Dub Version BBIC Faces of America #10 -No Animation on end ;Slate: “Date 12/23/80 Length 23:25 Title This Was America “Faces of America” Product Master With Titles Client WCVB-TV Boston Broadcasters Inc.”. Title: “This Was America with W...;Credits: With William Shatner; Written by Martin Sandler, Sherry Reisner; Music by Edward Korvin, Ron Frangipane; Executive Producer: Steve Schlow; Produced by Claude Pelanne; R...

Master This Was America X5845 Show #10 "Faces of America" Black w/code;Slate: “This Was America Show: 10 “Faces of America”. Title: “This Was America with William Shatner”. William Shatner hosts an episode about the experiences in America of Europe...;Credits: Produced by Steve Schlow, Claude Pelanne, Arnie Reisman; Written by Martin W. Sandler, Steve Schlow, Sherry Reisner, Claude Pelanne, Arnie Reisman; Main Title Sequence:...

Master; Cityline - MLK Papers; X975; Rec date: 5-11-93; Air date: 5-16-93;Slate: “Cityline VTR: X-975 Rec: 5/11/93 Air: 5/16/93 Dir: Hennessey”, “Karen Holmes”. Title: “CityLine”. Karen Holmes hosts an episode looking at Coretta Scott King legal fight...;Credits: Produced by Karen Holmes-Ward; Director: Donna Hennessey; Associate Producer: Laura Brown; Assistant Director: Brian Pellicano; Technical Director: Bayard Peabody, Jr.;...

Cityline - Stuart Case; Black Artists; X4929; WCVB code 39; Rec date 11-17-92; Air date: 11-22-92;"Has justice been served in the Stuart case and masters in African American Art"; Overview of the Charles Stuart case and Matthew Stuart's sentence. Reporter Amalia Barreda ta...

Cityline; Wilkerson Williams Writers; X4365; Rec date: 9-29-92; Air date: 10-4-92;CityLine; Arthur Williams and Diane Wilkerson, two candidates for the state senate, answer questions in their question for election votes; at 15:00 a flashing re-cue message app...;Credit: Produced by: Karen Holmes Ward; Directed by: Phil Rubin; Associate Producer: Laura Brown; Assistant Director: Jim Lowell; Technical Director: Bayard W. Peabody, Jr.; Aud...

Cityline - Whoopi; Advertising; X2617; WCVB code 24; rec date: 9-15-92; air date: 9-20-92;Cityline - Whoopi; Advertising Whoopi Goldberg, MBongeni Ngema; Leleti Khumalo are interviewed; Advertising to the Black consumer; Colette Phillips and Bink Garrison are interv...;Credits: Produced by: Karen Holmes Ward; Directed by: Phil Rubin; Associate Producer: Laura Brown; Assistant Director: Jim Lowell; Technical Director: Bayard W. Peabody, Jr., Au...

Master; Cityline - Kerry; Omegas; X983; WCVB code 34; Rec. date 4-7-92; Air date: 4-12-92;Affirmative action and reverse racism in candidate John Kerry's speech raises the ire of the Boston community; Thomas Farrington; David Thomas; Omega Psi Phi and its membership,...;Credits: Produced by: Karen Holmes; Directed by: Donna Hennessey; Production Assistant: Laura Brown; Assistant Director: Jim Lowell; Technical Director: Bayard W. Peabody, Jr.; ...

Cityline - Black Leadership #1; rec date: 11-7-92; air date: 11-12-92; X455; WCVB code 11.;Panel discussion about Black leadership by spokespersons Joan Wallace-Benjamin; Ed Rodman; Duane Jackson hosted by Karen Holmes. ;Credits: Produced by: Karen Holmes; Directed by: Phil Rubin; Production Assistant: Laura Brown; Assistant Director: Brian Pellicano; Technical Director: Bayard W. Peabody, Jr.; ...

Master; Cityline - #2; Black leadership; X458; Air date: 1-26-92; Rec date: 1-7-92;Slate: “Cityline Black Leadership – 1 VTR: X455 Rec: 1/7/92 Air: 1/12/92 Dir: Rubin”. Intro. Titles: “Cityline”. Karen Holmes introduces the episode, part two of a series on Bla...

Master Cityline - Focus; X456; Rec. date: 4-24-90; Air date: 4-29-90;Slate: “CITYLINE/FOCUS VTR: X456 AIR: 4/29/90 REC: 4/24/90 DIR: RUBIN”. Intro. Slate: “Focus: Brother Can You Spare Some Time”. Karen Holmes introduces a special on Boston organ...;Credits: Produced by Karen Holmes; Directed by Phil Rubin; Associate Producer Valerie D. Davy; Assistant Director Jam Hakim; Production Assistant Laura Brown; Technical Director...

Black History X5124 Special Rec. 12/5/88;Title: “To See The Glory”. John Amos hosts an episode about Black soldiers during the American Civil War. Includes clips of interviews with Bowdoin College Literary Historian Ga...;Credits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Hosted by John Amos; Written by Steve Hemingway; Script Editor: Clif Garboden; Assistant to the Producer: Erika Mobley; Videographers: Howard Ro...

Black History X4394 Black Women Rising;Title: “Black Women Rising”. Jayne Kennedy Overton hosts an episode about Black women in the United States. Includes clips of interviews with Elma Lewis, Artistic Director for t...;Credits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Written by Steve Hemingway; Host: Jayne Kennedy; Additional Writing: Karl Nurse, Barbara Brown; Cinematographers: Rodney Grace, David Skillicorn...

A television special for WCVB's locally produced program "Cityline" on the current state and the future of African American leadership in Boston and the rest of the country.;Credits: Produced By Karen Holmes, Directed By Donna Hennessey, Associate Producer Valerie D. Navy, Assistant Director Frank Firnschild, Production Assistant Laura Brown, Techni...

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Reel 35 color. Snow, car parked by side of road. Women have snowballs. One of the women is Harriet Boone. Man in red cap; he is Hamilton Bowser (1929-2016), from East Orange, NJ...;Reel 35 box note: April. Prade [sic] Harriet. Alma. Date code 1957

Reel 32 color, faded. Woman with golf club outdoors in snow, by front door of house. Very poor exposure. Brick wall on two sides of her. Then she is walking by birch trees, wa...;Reel 32 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Date code 1953

Reel 31 color. Woody wagon with man in suit, woman in swing jacket looking at camera. Picket fence. Man embraces woman dramatically. Wagon backs up by garage, pulls away. Woma...;Reel 31 box note: Oct.Dec 1953. Carl.E & Agnes. Rose & Ana. Gladys W. Bromly [Bromley] Mrs. P.E & Mrs W. Clytie. Mr & Mrs C in car out snow April 22 1953.

Reel 30 color, faded. Two men in hats, one on either side of a woman with a blue dress. Two women in lawn chairs stand up, one has a hard time getting out of chair. They walk ...;Reel 30 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Liza & friends. Dr. C & wife & Mal brother. M.W.C. & M.C. 2 friends from NY. Marie Carole. June-July-Aug 1953.

Reel 29 color. Children on lawn running, jumping over croquet stake. Boy pulls girl's hand, POV is down at grass level. Darker view of people walking across lawn. Man wheels a...;Reel 29 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Peggy & Husband. Peggy Halfpenny. Larry Freddie, Duke. Date code 1952.

Reel 28 color, shifted. At the border between US and Canada. Cars stopped at immigration, pan of Customs and Immigration building with bilingual sign and in the distance Coca C...;Reel 28 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Montreal, PQ. 1952. Date code 1952

Reel 27 color. Picnic table at Hapgood Lake. White woman with sweater around her shoulders behind a picnic basket. Black woman with drink. Three people walk by lake, seen from...;Reel 27 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. January 17, 1952. Mrs. Blackwell. Claudia. Rose. Wallace & Dogs. Mary. Harrie Ha?alls Mary. Chas & Flora. New Hou...;Cataloger note: Clyde Blackwell was the Equinox House doorman, he was African American. From the Bennington Banner newspaper, 1956, "Mrs. Clyde Blackwell has returned from State...

Reel 26 color. Snow (dirt and decomp at head of reel); two people in pants and parkas run with spaniel in snow. Bromley ski area lodge, bright red, pan of buildings and ski trai...;Reel 26 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Digging out Truck. Two Tiny Puppys. [sic] Gladys Deers Bromly [sic] Snow Skiing. Dec-May

Reel 25 color. A few frames of a toddler in a cap. Then man and woman on lawn with hills behind (faded or poor exposure). Too dark image of three children on lawn.They run arou...;Reel 25 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Mr & Mrs. C. Adr. & Mrs. M. Larry, Della (?) Fred'r. The Finely Family. Beatrice & Chas. Florence. Anna & Lillian. Date co...

Reel 20 color. Man in bucket hat walks on driveway. He walks by car outside white house. African American man walks along rural road, stops and turns, pointing to woods. He is...;Reel 20 box note: Chas. Flora. Lillian Mary. Mary. Hunter. Lee Victie Chas & Flo. Camp. Clarence & Della. Hudy & car. Mary Victie. Lillian car. Date code 1950.

Reel 19 color. Women walk by house with purpose, then they run and search in flower beds. Setting up a picnic table, one woman drinks, there is a bushel basket with supplies. On...;Reel 19 box note: Sept. 1950 Veda. Winnie. Fa? Jennie? Victie. Lillian car. Bee Mary Alice. Katie. Flora. Etta. Orlen. Cassie. Carl in garden. Very good. Bee F. Mary H. NY. Da...

Reel 18 color. African American group strolls by lake, women in skirts, man in jacket and slacks. Women appear to be in their late 20s, early 30s. At house, taller black gentl...;Reel 18 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Powell, Flora, Se? Gloria Hudy, Cousie, Gibson, ? Hapgood Pond. Hale? Picnic & good. Date code 1950.

Reel 17 color, dark at top of frame. Picnic table. Closing back of woody wagon. Excursion, African American group. At Hapgood Pond, picnic table. Barrel at table. Man in glas...;Reel 17 box note: To Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Hapgood Pond Picnic. Ettie. Fall. Gloria, S? Madam G. F & other. Date code 1950.

Reel 15 b&w film. snowing, two people walking away from camera, snow coming down, trees with snow on them. Woman pushes man. Car passes. The people are African American. M...;Reel 15 box note: From Anna Harris, Manchester, Vermont. Clytie, Holiday. House. Self. Snow. ;Shawn Harrington of Vermont Historical Society identifies the first house in Reel 15 as "The Holiday House," in the 1940s, 3967 Main Street, Manchester. The second house, he sa...