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Portrait of a City Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221420-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961

Country: USA

Location: Detroit,Michigan

TC Begins: 14:27:21

TC Ends: 14:41:12

Duration: 00:13:51

Portrait of a City Pt 1 of 2 Ford Motor Co. Detroit montage - city seen from river, AV highways - construction. Titles. 14:28:14 Statue of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac on front of City Hall; Cadillac Square at dawn w/ pigeons. Docks & industry. Library on Woodward Avenue. Animated map of region in 1701 w/ painting of French explorers led by Cadillac. Tourists look at model of Fort Pontchartrain inside Fort Wayne - VO re history of Detroit. Old Mariner’s Church - people out. Statue of Father Gabriel Richard on Jefferson Ave. 14:30:50 Newspaper stall on street. Fire engines thru streets (GOOD), firemen at work. 14:31:41 CU street sign Cass Ave. Monument to Gen. Lewis Cass - staged early cars along country road in period dress. Portrait of Douglas Hoton ?, State Geologist; shots of docks & mineral shipping. Blacksmith at work. Statue of Hazen S. Pingree in Grand Circus Park; busy traffic along street past huge shoe store. 14:33:15 19th Century village scenes w/ people in period costume riding horse-drawn carriage & early bicycles / penny farthings. Photo of early “horseless carriage”. CU street sign Clifford/Bagley. Plaque marking ‘Birthplace of the Ford Motor Car’; fade to modern traffic along freeway. High shots across river to city. Blacksmith; man in period setting at drawing board. 14:34:42 Modern car production line scenes in Detroit - men & women workers - steelworks. Traffic at highway intersections. View across river to Windsor, Ontario on Canadian side - Ambassador Bridge - sign Tunnel to Canada, bus enters - silver passenger train into station. Passenger jet landing. City center. Tracking shot along run-down street / slum area ready to be cleared. Veterans Memorial Building on waterfront. Road construction. Aerial view intersection of vars freeways in city. New cars on transporter. Factories of vars Ford suppliers around US. More scenes in period setting w/ early cars & carriages. 14:37:17 Parke Davis & Co. pharmaceuticals factory; INT drug production lines. 14:38:00 WWII war production in Detroit, parade w/ troops in trucks along street; tanks out of factory. French street signs. Grand Boulevard & POV along street. Masonic Temple. American Airlines plane taxiing on snowy runway. Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. Knopf-Scott Building. Fisher Building - exterior & interior. High shot Hudson’s department store; affluent women past shop window display. 14:39:59 Northland suburban shopping center & parking lot for 9984 cars - people past shop window displays - shops set in promenades w/ flowers & fountains. Modern architecture around city, Ford office building; 50s-style motel w/ swimming pool. Travelogues; Tourism; Transportation; Promotional Films; Automobile Industry; Michigan; City Guides; 1960s; Americana; Note: occasional printer ride due to shrinkage.

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