Film, Motion Picture

Urban Comm
Sue City
1 W/P
10508 Neighborhood

Misc Pic's (mos) Neighborhoods
This Is My Home

Silent 16mm color workprint from the Sue Marx production, "This Is My Home, This Is Detroit," containing footage of historical photographs, Eastern Market, Corktown. and Indian Village, dated September 28, 1985.

The footage begins with zooms and pans across historical photos depicting downtown Detroit, crowds outside of factories, the Ford Highland Park plant's exterior, the river front, jazz orchestras and other musicians, Eastern Market, horse-drawn wagons in Campus Martius, children along a wall, and Grand Circus Park illuminated at night.

Afterward is a clip of a woman and two chickens outside of Charlie's Fish Market at 2328 Russell Street on the edge of Eastern Market.

The portion shot in Corktown follows. This segment includes the Clement Kern Gardens housing development construction sign, shots of the units under constructions and construction workers, a pan across older houses on the north side of Bagley Street opposite the development, and the exterior of the Joseph H. Esterling House at 2245 Wabash Street.

The Indian Village portion begins with a series of shots taken out of the window of a car of houses along the east side of Iroquois Street between East Lafayette Street and Agnes Street, then Agnes to St. Paul Street, St. Paul to Kercheval Avenue, and Kercheval to East Vernor Highway. Several shots of the "This Is Historic Indian Village" sign on the north corner of Kercheval Avenue and Iroquois Street follow. Afterward are several shots centering on two girls walking a dog along Iroquois Street. The camera then pans along the west side of Iroquois from Vernor Highway, ending just before East Lafayette.

The final shots on the reel are of two dogs on the lawn between a large house with a carriage house and another large house, with the Renaissance Center visible in the distance on the right.