Portrait Of A City - Detroit (1961)
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- Celebratory film from Ford commemorating Detroit’s 250th anniversary. Portrait of a City reenacts scenes from the city’s history and presents a tour of its streets, parks, skyscrapers, factories, and waterfront.
NOTE: The film was broadcast on Detroit television and distributed through Ford’s film libraries. Revised in 1961.
AHHH the bygone days.....I am from Detroit and now at 66 yrs of age, I recall much of the glory of Detroit in those days. Even though there seems to be a reboot of this gallant old lady, I doubt it will ever see glory days like this again....so sad....
I wonder did you retire and move away to a warmer climate like so many have .
Until your generation wrecked it, For future generations.
@@hellomikie92 What really wrecked Detroit was a combination of corporate greed and the lack of vision for the future. The old-guard auto companies like Ford, GM, and Chrysler failed to react swiftly enough to the energy crisis of the 70s and kept on pumping out big old fashioned gas guzzling land-boats, while the Japanese were showing off smaller MUCH more fuel efficient cars. So what do you think the auto-buying public did at that time? They went for the less expensive, smaller, more fuel efficient cars leaving the Big 3 behind in a whirlwind of dust. Hence the death knell of Detroit.
@@lenisbennett3062They mostly moved to the burbs where it was safe.
After watching this film, I’m sold! Detroit looks awesome! I’m moving there next week!!
How times have changed...
My hometown, so interesting! Love that there's still some things I recognize and it hasn't all been done over quite yet.
I believe it will come back. It will take decades, generations, but I believe Detroit will re-emerge, they just need to find a new industry. It will happen.
Not happening. America won't survive
Agreed! They just need a new industry like tech.
@Sharon H: Throw the thieves out (Chinese, billionaires, false economic philosophers) and America will prosper again. The same is true with many other western countries such as Germany where I am from.
Not gonna happen América including Detroit has passed the rubicon😢
@@vanillacreem816Yes, it's fate was sealed in 1968. A mass exodus ensued.
Detroit was once perhaps the finest city in America. It had large scale success, even among different races.
So sad the state of Detroit now
Many of the factories that had good paying jobs moved out to Mexico and overseas for cheaper labor and more money. While the drugs and the like moved into a high unemployment sector to fill the void with crime and fill the jails up with cheap privatized prison labor. Prophets or profits?
Detroit is a city dude Michigan is the state
@@TallyWackaTha2nd you clearly are not very intelligent maybe try google before making asinine comments
@@TallyWackaTha2nd Wow. I can't even with this. Have you never heard that expression? State of affairs? State of disrepair? Etc. Etc. Clearly not. Google is your friend. 😆
Bookmarks & Bookshelves thank you I was starting to wonder if I needed to put a definition or translation in my comments
You can find that statue of Cadillac and the other three statues from old City Hall on Wayne State's campus across from the Towers dorms.
So sad what Ford and bad trade policies have done to this city.
Just shows that the Lions will never be winners in their hands
You are in denial.
Ford warned everyone it would happen if they unionized.
It doesn't look like this anymore. It's pretty sad to see how much it's decayed.
'' he remind them that the city was not destroyed....how could it be? The city was in their hearts"
On November 9, 1962, the Ford Rotunda burned down in less than an hour due to a waterproofing sealant fire. The intense heat caused the building to collapse and burn to the ground, resulting in estimated damages of over $15 million.
Olympia Stadium is also gone and so is Joe Louis Arena that was built when Olympia was torn down.
I lived there a few years ago for two years. Some areas around Detroit like Royal Oak and Birmingham are fine but most of the rest of it is an armpit.
No not an arm pit yet but with the present democrat governor it will soon be!
Great Detroit 👍
In Germany it is uncommon what you see here: 2:51, parsons shaking hands with participants of the service. // I like the agreeable deep voice of the narrator and also the two older, well-dressed ladies passing by at 12:34.
I am not from Detroit, but Warren, Michigan. I just saw this commercial today. My grandparents lived in Detroit and my dad was born there. I have pictures of their hose. It was huge. My cousins and I used to ride our bikes in the basement with the old record players that were a piece of furniture by themselves. We never went anywhere but their house but i have good memories of that house. And i agree. I loved the narrators soothing voice. Ive been to The Detroit Institute of Arts but not since high school.
That first statue.... his name was Cadillac. What a coincidence that he would find his way to Detroit, where they made a car named Cadillac!!!!
Stanley Striker - Ha! The irony!
Can’t beat a gin and tonic with a veal dinner at Roma Cafe as it was around the holidays
By 1981, 20 years after this was produced, it was all ghetto.
How's Detroit look like today?
@@gagaearthian the neighborhood's are worse. Entire city blocks are fields and crime is spreading to the suburbs. Some streets might have only one house on it. There are a few homes with 1 million to two million dollar listings for sale, but once you go to the corner of the street it's all shit. Downtown has slightly improved but it won't last. The city council is basically on a tribal system, is a joke and prevents progress.
@@RADIUMGLASS It is sad to hear it 😓😓 Always wanted to go and visit Detroit, idk why it attracts me. Thank you for the answer 💞
@@gagaearthian I'm from Detroit and you definitely should go visit. It's not all like that and there are plenty of safe beautiful things to see. It really is a great city, sadly there are parts of it that show off America's blemishes but other parts are really cool.
Everything you are saying is incorrect 🙂
0:17 Yet it looks only to the future"
In 1961 the narrator of the film probably couldn't imagine that in the future, Detroit would look like Dresden Germany did at the end of World War 2. It looks like a burned, bombed-out shell of a city.
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Go Lions
Northland Mall, Westland Mall and Eastland Mall are all gone, in 2024.
My mother's family is from Bloomfield Hills
That is an expensive suburb, not part of Detroit
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A shambles now.
Old City Hall, Can we get an F in the chat.
Ford Rotunda, Can we please get an F in the chat.
Michigan Theatre, F in the chat PLEASE!
Olympia Arena, PLEASE! We need an F in the CHAT!
Tigers Stadium, F IN THE CHAT!
Ford Auditorium, CaN wE pLeAsE gEt An F iN tHe ChAAAAAAAAT!!!
Not much to celebrate now.
And then came the democrats...n'uff said.
True,this. Nuff sed
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I'd rather live in Detroit, Texas.
So much ignorance and racism in these comments. But that's youtube for ya.
The last Republican mayor's term ended in 1962. Detroit died slowly after that. Democrat Jerome Cavanagh was mayor that fanned the flames of the Detroit riots of 1967.
See - segregation was good after all ---
Southwestern and Southeastern High Schools are gone in 2024.
So many lost buidlings and lost hopes
a very nearsighted film
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