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City Clips - Detroit
Cultural Centers & Parks
05-08-89
Tape 3
U-Matic S tape containing b-roll footage shot of exteriors of The Dress Shop and institutions around the Cultural Center, interior shots of the Detroit Public Library Main Branch, footage shot around Chene Park, activity surrounding a swing set on Belle Isle, a series of stills showing Mayor Coleman A. Young, pans around the Bel Air Centre, a shot of the General Motors Cadillac Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Center sign, and two women working with a computer. The final three sequences are also featured on tape 2015.008.056.
The tape opens with a brief clip of Mayor Coleman A. Young at the beginning of the November 3, 1988 press conference concerning the change in format for the 1989 Detroit Grand Prix from Formula One to CART, presumably from an earlier recording on the tape (see tape 2015.008.126 for the full recording). Muffled audio from the press conference is still slightly audible throughout the rest of the tape.
The b-roll footage of then begins with a prolonged shot of the exterior of The Dress Shop on Woodward Avenue. Next the Woodward Avenue face of the Detroit Institute of Arts and Rodin's Thinker in front of the museum are featured in a series of shots. The camera then provides a view of the Woodward Avenue face of the Detroit Public Library's Main Branch across the street. People are filmed entering the building as traffic passes in the foreground. Then several shots feature the sign outside of the Woodward Avenue side of the Detroit Historical Museum. Afterward, several shots capture children playing on John Kearney's sculpture Silverbolt (Detroit Horse Power IV) outside of the Children's Museum. These are followed by shots of the entrance of the Museum of African American History on Frederick Street. Shots follow of people walking--past Wayne State University's State Hall, and on the southwestern side of the grounds of the Detroit Public Library's Main Branch.
After a shot of the Detroit Public Library sign outside the Main Branch, the camera moves inside for shots of three people reading or studying in different areas of the library.
After another break in the recording, the camera moves to Chene Park for several shots. The first shows the park's entrance at Chene Street and Atwater Street. The next is zoom from a close-up of the park's sign to the park's entrance. And the final shot is a view of the construction site of the amphitheater.
The next section of the tape takes place around the swing sets off the west side of Vista Drive on Belle Isle. Here the camera captures people waving while driving past, people relaxing on grass, children playing on the swings, and a man pushing a young child in a baby swing.
Following a brief clip from the Grand Prix press conference, the next portion of the tape has the camera lingering on a series of photographs of Mayor Coleman A. Young. The photos feature
Mayor Young seated beside President Jimmy Carter, Mayor Young and Lee Iacocca standing in front of a church's stained glass window, a black and white photo of Young in casual clothes posed with three other people (two women and one man), a black and white portrait of Young, Young and Governor William Milliken, Young and Dionne Warwick, and Young as a child in a group portrait (presumably a class photo).
The next segment on the tape includes several close-ups and pans across the businesses of Bel Air Centre on East Eight Mile Road, as shot from the shopping plaza's parking lot. From left to right the discernible businesses include Toys R Us, Kids R Us, Farmer Jack, Arbor Drugs, Wear-Guard, C & G Hallmark, Bel Air Men's Wear, Radio Shack, Coney Island, AMC 10 Theatres, Sibley's Shoes, Fashion Bug, Payless Shoe Source, 16 Plus, Charles, Nadon's, Winkelman's, Sally's Beauty Supplies, and Target. These shots are followed by a long shot of the mall's sign with Builders Square, Toys R Us, Target, Farmer Jack, and Kids R Us listed as the anchor stores.
The Bel Air Centre footage is followed by a single extended shot of the GM Cadillac Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Center sign as taken from the northeast, with the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Facility, and East Grand Boulevard, and the embankments of the Edsel Ford Freeway in the background.
The next segment features a woman transcribing handwritten notes from Detroit stationery into a computer with an amber monitor and an 8" floppy drive, while another woman watches from over her shoulder. A shot list included with the tape identified the women as Wendy and Rose.
The recording is on a UCA-30s U-Matic S tape with a handwritten 3M label on its top. The tape is housed in a black plastic latching case with a handwritten City of Detroit Department of Public Information Video Production label on its cover. The case also contains a handwritten shot list:
City Clips #3 Cultural Center Parks
Trash shot 00 - .9
Dress shop on corner Downtown 9 - 1:15
DIA shots 1:15 - 2:28
Library Shots 2:28 - 3:24
Detroit Historical Museum Shots 3:24 - 4:10
Kids @ Childrens Museum Shots 4:10 - 5:10
MAAH Shots 5:10 - 6:07
Students on Wayne Campus 6:07 - 6:57
Students in Main Library working 6:57 - 10:23
Chene Park 10:23 - 13:02
Belle Isle Park w/ people shots 13:02 - 15:37
Trash/Blk 15:37 - 16:30
Pix of CAY (stills) 16:30 - 22:17
Bel Air Shopping Center 22;17 - 30:10
[crossed out: Rose Love/Wendy Gary[?] 30:10 - 31:03
Cadillac/GM Plant Sign]
Cadillac/GM Plant Sign 30:10 - 31:03
Wendy & Rose 31:03 - 32:17
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