Getting to the Point

A series of jokey instructions on how to get to the Columbia Point campus of the University of Massachusetts on public transit and by car. Produced by students in Pat Lehman's video production class.

00:02Copy video clip URL Title Card: Getting to the Point. Note: some tracking issues. Voiceover: “Getting to the Point, by Collins/Cassidy, which is us.” In conversation, sometimes speaking over each other, about the Columbia Point Campus of the University of Massachusetts. 

00:50Copy video clip URL Instructions for taking public transit to the campus. An image of an Alka-Seltzer wrapper appears on screen as the voices discuss waiting to be on camera. 

01:36Copy video clip URL Slow zoom out from Alka-Seltzer package to reveal two men sitting at a diner counter. 

02:56Copy video clip URL The men leave the coffee shop to look for a bus. They wander through brush and fields, joking with each other: “Be careful, there’s a lot of commies out there.”They see a bus down the street and run after it. 

04:40Copy video clip URL They get on Bus 304 for Downtown Boston. After they sit down they discuss the route and joke around about “scriptures” and about being in the CIA. Poor image quality.

09:40Copy video clip URL They get off the bus and play around in the streets around South Station. They pretend to interview a fire hydrant with a hat on it about which train to take from South Station to get to Columbia Point. 

12:27Copy video clip URL They walk to the trains and get on, riding the red line to the Columbia Station. 

15:22Copy video clip URL They get off the train and look at the transit map. Joking about education. The route from the terminal to the buses. 

18:20Copy video clip URL Title Card again, and close-ups of a transit map. Walking through the station, getting on a train heading north. 

22:36Copy video clip URL Off the train in Harvard Square, getting onto the Ashmont train. Examining the transit map. 

26:00Copy video clip URL In Harvard Square. On the bus crossing the Charles River. 

28:45Copy video clip URL Title Card, again. An introductory explanation for public transit directions to Columbia Point. Riding north on the Red Line.

30:39Copy video clip URL Title Card, again. They joke around about students at Columbia Point. Looking for the correct bus. Riding a train and filming the tracks and filming out the window. Joking around about a companion named “Lemon Meringue.” Crossing from Charleston into Boston. 

36:25Copy video clip URL Shots of downtown Boston. Close-ups of a transit map as they joke about looking for the Orange Line. 

38:35Copy video clip URL Outside of the Park Street Station in Boston Common. Riding down the Massachusetts Turnpike, jokily interviewing “Professor Tiddlebaum” about space aliens while offering driving directions to Columbia Point. 

46:19Copy video clip URL Driving up the Southeast Expressway to Boston/South Boston. Commentary about the landscape as they drive past. Joking about Chesty Morgan. 

49:50Copy video clip URL Approaching the Columbia Point campus.