Film, Motion Picture

Hist. Soc. 1953 Strickers'

Silent color 16mm film containing footage shot at the Detroit Historical Society's New Member Party on October 24, 1953, followed by footage shot on the way to and at a University of Michigan football game on October 31, 1953.

The film opens with footage of people husking corn shot at the "Day in the Country" themed New Member Party at the home of Dr. Henry D. Stricker in Milford. In the corn field, two girls are then film kissing the same boy. Then the camera moves indoors to show a group of people seated around a table.

After a cut, a new segment of the film begins with a group of men talking near the corner of Park Avenue and Bagley Avenue, with the Tuller Hotel visible in the background. A bus stops on Bagley, and the men board. After a brief shot on board the bus, the men are then filmed seated in the grass eating boxed lunched from Sanders. The camera captures a close-up of the logo on the lid of one box. The film next finds the group gathered in front of a trio of buses, outside of Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. People are filmed taking their seats in the bleachers. The remainder of the reel is dedicated to footage of the Wolverines playing against the University of Pennsylvania's Quakers.

The film is on a grey 3.75-inch plastic reel housed within a yellow Cine-Kodak Kodachrome box. The form on the box is made out to H.M. Hastings in the Book Tower, and the box is stamped with a postmark for November 10, 1953.