U-Matic

N. Edison
C. Sweet Movie #1
8-16-90

U-Matic S tape containing footage shot of Cadillac Square, the interior of the Wayne County Building, the Financial District, the exterior of the Detroit Club, Washington Boulevard, Grand Circus Park, and the interior of the Whitney. Most of the footage is silent.

The video begins with a brief clip of Mayor Coleman A. Young speaking at a church with a wooden paneled interior.
Then from Cadillac Square, the camera pans and zooms about, capturing the statues, steps, and other exterior details of the Wayne Country Building, the distant Book Tower and surrounding skyline, and Cadillac Tower.

The camera then moves inside of the Wayne County Building, where it captures the main staircase, lobby, halls, floor and ceiling mosaics, stained glass, and door details. The camera operator also films inside of an ornate courtroom. Signs for county officials Milton Mack, Edward Boike, Jr., Ricardo A. Solomon are situated at seats in the courtroom. The camera also focuses on details in the room such as the clock, marble columns, and the view from its windows across the building's courtyard. The camera also pans around room 300, a large conference room where a small group appears to be informally meeting.

The camera then moves to the city's Financial District for a series of exterior shots. These include a southwesterly view along Congress Street, west of Griswold Street. the Buhl Building, a flower vendor set up on the sidewalk outside of the Buhl Building, the Ford Building, the Guardian Building, a northwesterly view along Griswold Street from Congress, the Penobscot Building, and the National Bank of Detroit.

The next segment begins with exterior shots of the Detroit Club at 712 Cass Avenue. The camera then moves to Washington Boulevard, south of Michigan Avenue, for shots of the Detroit Citizen's Railway trolley, the pedestrian mall, the Book Cadillac Hotel, a zoom in and out from the distant steeple of Central United Methodist Church, the Alexander Macomb Monument, the top of the Detroit Edison General Services Building,

The camera is then repositioned at the east corner of Woodward Avenue and Adams Avenue. It pans around in a full circle several times from Central United Methodist Church, around Grand Circus Park, and catches traffic along Woodward Avenue. An advertisement for Sam Raimi's film Darkman appears on the side of a passing Detroit Department of Transportation Bus passing along Woodward.

The final section of the tape features the interior of the Whitney. The camera pans around to feature its tapestries, dining areas, upstairs bar, staircase and furniture.

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 latching black plastic case with a label on its cover.