Film, Motion Picture

Detroit Police Mounted Bureau

Color 16mm silent film containing a series of shots relating to Detroit Police Department's Mounted Police Division. The film begins at the Detroit Police Mounted Stables. A Detroit Police horse trailer truck pulls up to the building, and a man leads to horse from the trailer. In a fenced-in area, a man demonstrates maneuvering a horse. He is followed by another man who has difficulty mounting a horse. After a shot of a Detroit Police Mounted Bureau sign, the film continues in a different fenced area, where another man brushes a horse. The film then focuses on a blacksmith who is making horseshoes at his forge. A man then demonstrates shoeing a horse. The next series of shots are in a workshop where a man makes a saddle. Then at the stable, a man puts a completed saddle on a horse. Next, a uniformed officer--presumably on Belle Isle-- rides a horse from the stable to a field to a field where a group of children approach to pet the horse. The film then cuts to an officer riding downtown, past a prefabricated mobile building with a "Visitor Information" sign above its door. In the final shots a group of men ride in formation on a dirt track.