This color educational film is about the new Industrial City of today. Detroit, Michigan is prominently featured. This film was released in January 1970 by Encyclopædia Britannica Films.
Detroit Industrial Community. Iron and steel factories. Computers, pharmaceuticals. Numerous cars being moved onto truck transports. Automobiles on a train transport. Assembly line in a Detroit factory. Steel in tubes. Cars being pieced together. An engine is placed inside a car. A car is driven off the line. A plane takes off. A boat on a waterway. Arial shot of a highway (:06-2:52). A map of the United States. Cities: Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL, Gary, Indiana, Toledo and Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA, Toronto and Windsor, Ontario are mentioned. They all lie on major arteries of transportation. Detroit, MI in the early 1900s. People build cars. Eli Olds, Walter P. Chrysler and Henry Ford were the car building pioneers. Cars on an assembly line, mass production in the early 1900s. Moving assembly line sped up production. Old cars are built. The Ford Model T, Model T’s drive. Immigrants worked in the factories. Polish immigrant section of Detroit. People leaving work in the modern day. Workers on the line. Spinning production wheels. Close on the giant Uniroyal Tires tire logo (2:53-6:52). People punch the keys of a computer keyboard. The assembly line of a car factory. People argue on the line. A union meeting. A speaker at the meeting. 1930s/1940s workers strike, men march on the picket line. Unions protect the working community. Modern day cars, people shopping at a mall. Inside the shopping mall at Christmas time. Downtown Detroit, people on the move(6:53-9:39). Inside a bank, people walk inside the bank. Suburban homes. Professional people and leaders of industry have large, nice homes. A man is visiting a car lot. Aerial shots of the city. Booming suburbs. New factories. A city bus. A car in the suburbs. Workers drive on a highway. Aerial shot of the highways. Highway overpasses (9:40-11:39). Construction site. Pollution in the air. Giant smokestacks put out lots of smoke. Water is polluted near a factory. Poverty where homeless men roam. Rundown, decaying homes. Crime stalks the streets of the modern city. Businessmen and leaders meet (11:40-12:51). Public service buildings. People wait in an unemployment office. Men talk to workers in the office. People at a car show, the product of the industrial city. Plymouth car sign. A person east an ice cream cone as they peruse the car show. A painting of the industrial city. Steelworks (12:52-14:33). End credits (14:34-15:06).
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