U-Matic

Eastern Market
Cut-A-Ways
5-17-1991

U-Matic S tape containing silent footage of Eastern Market shot on May 17, 1991, prominently featuring signage on businesses around the market, but also showing some activity in the market.

The tape opens with a zoom out from R. Hirt Jr. Company's sign out to the entire block along Market Street southeast of Winder Street--Vivio's, Eastern Market Seafood, and Cost Plus Wine Shoppe. The shot ends with a zoom into Cost Plus's sign on its awning. The next shot is a zoom out from the sign for Butcher's Saloon, out to Winder Street northeast from Market Street. Two of the market's murals--the cow made of fruits and vegetables on the side of Eastern Market Cold Storage, and the chicken above the entrance to Shed 2, are then featured in successive shots. Signs for Farmers Restaurant, Country Bakery, Vivio's, Rocky Peanut Company's multiple painted signs, the giant cutouts of fruit over Shed 3's windows, a Jim Moceri and Son' truck, Sunnyside Produce, a worker in a forklift unloading a truck in front of Tony Lin, Bert's Marketplace, Market Place Oriental Groceries, Country Boy Restaurant, a Coney Island with a Vernors sign, workers in Vitale's Watermelons, Eastern Market Plaza, people looking at flowers on Russell Street, and traffic on Russell Street.

The tape's final set of shots are all from B and S Produce on Russell Street between Watson Street and Erskine Street. Here the camera captures shoppers, displays of produce, and a cat.

The recording is on a 3M UCA 30S U-Matic tape with a handwritten City of Detroit Department of Public Information Video Production label on its top. The tape is housed within a black plastic case with a matching label on its cover.