2015.007.082
detroithistorical.pastperfecto...
Silent color 16mm film containing footage shot for "Detroit Means Business," of a golf course, a residential street, the Detroit Zoo, a furniture store, equipment in a laboratory, and the Detroit Pistons playing an exhibition game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Joe Louis Arena.
The reel opens with shot of a marker labeled "Urban Comm. 'City,' Date: 16 Oct 81, Take: 1, Roll: 28, Camera Person: Zarchy, Sound Roll: MOS." Afterward, a group of golfers on a course perform several takes of hitting a ball, then setting off after it.
A row of homes along a residential street is featured in the next shot.
Several shots follow of giraffes at the Detroit Zoo feeding on fallen leaves and being fed grass by children.
Next, are multiple takes of women browsing among the displays of a furniture store-possibly a department in a Hudson's location.
Several close-ups of laboratory equipment follow--a Hewlett Packard 2645A computer, an oscilloscope, and a Physical Electronics Industries-manufactured device.
The film then returns to the zoo for shots of children, the polar bear in its habitat, other bears, the exterior of a souvenir store, and a zoo sign.
The final section of the reel contains footage from the October 17, 1981 exhibition game between the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers at Joe Louis Arena. The camera moves between courtside beneath the Lakers' basket, and the lower seating tier, and it spans the end of the game's third quarter and beginning of the forth. Pistons players Isiah Thomas, Kent Benson, and Greg Kelser are featured prominently. They face a squad including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The film is wrapped on a plastic core and housed within a 35mm tin along with 2015.007.083. The tin is marked "CT 338 7416 - 338 8212, D 023 7284 - 023 8072, D 023 8895 - 023 9644, CT 338 9038 - 338 9804."