Film, Motion Picture

Urban Cx 213 5046 - 5830 Cy 213 4238 - 5002 S 723 3867 - 4012

Silent color 16mm film containing footage shot for "Detroit Means Business," of a video production studio, vocational school programs, the Better Made factory, and Trolley Plaza Apartments.

The roll opens with several short shots in a video production studio. Ford logos are on screens in the background, and several rolls of magnetic tape are on a counter.

The next segments show students and instructors in two different vocational school programs--a culinary arts program in a kitchen setting, and students working with oscilloscopes and other devices in an electronics classroom.

The camera then moves to the Better Made potato chip factory where it films potato chips pouring out of an oven and onto a conveyor belt. A woman inspects the chips further along the line in the background.

The camera then pans around an apartment in the Trolley Plaza Apartments building with red carpet, a small dining table, and curtains drawn over a large window. Next, Ronald Ratner, the vice-president of Forest City Dillon Inc. and the developer behind Trolley Plaza, is filmed speaking in his office. Afterward, two men are filmed looking at a booked and then shaking hands at an office desk.

The film is wrapped on a plastic core and housed within a 35mm tin along with 2015.007.076. The tin is marked "Salt Roll 2 12417," and a loose label within the tin is marked "11/18/81 Urban Comm. Group City rolls 60+61, 9891 1 roll."