Detroit - City on the Move
Detroit - City on the Move is a short film from 1965 released on 35mm/16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Nice nighttime aerial shots of Detroit. Cars everywhere.
| Detroit - City on the Move | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1965 |
Running time | 18:12 |
| Language | English |
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3:08:72- 3:17:45
Aerial view of complex highway system (comprised largely of overpasses and underpasses). Cars occupy every part of the system.
5:22:52- 5:45:47
Camera starts with view of a downtown street where a bus and some cars go by. It then pans up a tall, wide office building a hideous early sixties structure. Cut to a frontal view of the building.
5:46:04- 5:56:38
Excellent pan of a "modern," urban school situated near large office buildings. Children walk by the single level structure.
6:10:81- 6:27:49
Driving POV through several affluent Detroit residential neighborhoods.
10:10:79- 10:18:20
Pan of Wayne State University's(?) enormous, brown hospital and the road beside it. It looks like a prison.
10:59:98- 11:14:50
Montage of crowds walking on downtown side walks. Mostly white people but some African-Americans.
13:01:59- 13:11:34
Aerial pan of "Detroit industry" billowing smoke pollutes the air. This looks like an enormous industrial plant of some kind. It lies by the river.
13:12:42- 13:45:35
Montage of Detroit's industry. Start with an image of a parking lot outside of an auto plant, cut to excellent image of cars going towards the Chrysler plant (there's a huge CHRYSLER sign), cut to a view of the General Motors building (nice sign on the top of the building), cut to quick pan of an industrial plant, cut to several images of slicker, cleaner industrial buildings, cut to several shots of industrial warehouses, and finally cut to the Ford building.
14:06:22- 14:26:59
A car passes a sign for the Metropolitan Beach. Cut to an image of the beach, and then to an several overviews of many people on it.
14:27:71- 14:35:11
Nice view (from behind the front seat of a convertible where three people sit) of the entrance for the Detroit Zoo. We approach the large entrance where there are information booths.
14:55:73- 15:03:65
Excellent image of crowds of children playing in a public swimming pool. The camera pulls back to offer a wider view African-American children cluster together towards the front of the poll.