Coleman A. Young 1973 Promo Footage

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2015.007.058

Silent 16mm film containing footage presumably shot for a commercial for Coleman A. Young's 1973 campaign for mayor. The footage is composed of a variety of shots, mostly centered fire-damaged and abandoned homes, storefronts, and industrial buildings, but also featuring shots of people on Detroit's streets. Among the footage are shots of the Edison Hotel, a playground beside a dilapidated wooden building, several pans from the Comerica Building and the Guardian Building to the weathered facades of the nearby Second Williams Block, and First Williams Block on Monroe Avenue, a pan across the other buildings of the Monroe Block, and shots of a both workers unloading a freighter on the city's riverfront as well as a smashed car.

The video is on a blue 12-inch plastic Plio Magic reel in a matching blue plastic canister. A typewritten mailing label addressed to Robert Berg at the Mayor's Office is on the front.