Film, Motion Picture

C.A.Y. - 1973 Promo - 16mm Silent

Silent 16mm film containing footage presumably shot for a commercial for Coleman A. Young's 1973 campaign for mayor. The footage is composed of a variety of shots, mostly centered fire-damaged and abandoned homes, storefronts, and industrial buildings, but also featuring shots of people on Detroit's streets. Among the footage are shots of children playing on the corner Cameron Street and Lynn Street, a view of people on a residential street which intersects with Canfield Street in the background, the Edison Hotel, a playground beside a dilapidated wooden building, several pans from the Comerica Building and the Guardian Building to the weathered facades of the nearby Second Williams Block, and First Williams Block on Monroe Avenue, a pan across the other buildings of the Monroe Block, and shots of a both workers unloading a freighter on the city's riverfront as well as a smashed car.

The video is on a blue 12-inch plastic Plio Magic reel in a matching blue plastic canister. A typewritten mailing label addressed to Robert Berg at the Mayor's Office is on the front.