U-Matic
City Clips
U-Matic tape containing silent footage shot around the Bel Air Centre strip mall, the General Motors Cadillac Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Center sign, and two women working with a computer. This footage also appears on tape 2015.008.295. This tape ends with a very brief clip of Coleman A. Young at a press conference.
The footage begins with 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. The camera cuts away and the two women switch places.
The tape ends after a brief silent clip of Mayor Coleman A. Young speaking behind a podium beside a case holding a small statue of a Japanese woman in a kimono holding a fan.
The video is on a 3M UCA-30s U-Matic S tape with "City Clips #2 CAY B-Day 71 89" handwritten directly on its top. The tape is housed within a black plastic latching clamshell case with a handwritten City of Detroit Department of Public Information label on the cover. The label includes the crossed out title, "House opening @ Gratiot for Detroit Neighborhood Services."
Request ImageRelated Records
U-Matic
City Clips - Detroit
Cultural Centers & Parks
05-08-89
Tape 3
