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Reqiuem for Detroit / BBC2
Posted by the_saint on 11 March 2010 - 9:07am.
Nod to the Massive. This looks like it could be a good documentary: Requiem for Detroit, a film about the rise and fall of the city; BBC2 13th March...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rkm3y
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/10/detroit-motor-city-urban-decl...
Check out the Virtual MOtor City online digital library, containing 150 archive videos, such as old B&W newsreels, etc:
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/digital/vmc_newsreels/videos.php
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The ruins of Detroit
Magnificent photographs
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html
Blimey...
Crikey, those pics are good - and VERY spooky, and concerning - especially with the title of the collection, The Ruins of Detroit. Detroit looks like a dead city, like some real-life 'Escape From New York' or 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes'
United Artist Theatre
Michigan Central Station
The Virtual Motor City site is definitely worth a look if you get chance, too. Some amazing old news-reels from the birth of Detroit as a 20th Century city.
I'm looking forward to it
As a visitor to Detroit last year I couldn't quite believe what I was seeing when, only about a mile from the Motown Studio (which could be in "Anycity USA" there were people on tractors at the side of the road. I would have liked to take a picture but it didn't really seem to be that sort of an area! It all starts to make sense now.