U-Matic
Freedom Festival Celebration @ the Fox Theatre #2
5-26, 1989
U-Matic S tape containing footage of the event at the Fox Theatre announcing the 1989 International Freedom Festival on April 5, 1989, continued from 2015.008.135. The tape includes the First Annual Duckie 500--a remoted controlled car race between Mayor Coleman A. Young and Windsor Mayor John Millson in the theater's lobby.
The tape opens with Mayor Young speaking at the Fox Theatre from behind a podium. He jokes that he seldom won the previous remoted controlled tugboat races, and cautions the crowd about the possibility of his car leaving the course. The mayors take their positions at the course as Jac LeGoff explains the rules over a loudspeaker. After making two practice laps, the mayors race. Millson emerges victorious, and is presented with a trophy topped with a rubber duck by LeGoff.
After the race the camera gets some additional silent footage around the lobby. These include shots of the event's banner and the flags of both nations, the pipe organ's piles, the lobby's decor, and the William Paterson New Jazz Ensemble performing.
The video is on a 3M UCA-30s U-Matic S tape with a handwritten 3M label on its top. The tape is housed within a black plastic latching U-Matic case with a matching label on its cover.
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