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Poletown lives! / presented by the Information Factory ; George L. Corsetti, producer, director.
LIBRA VHS Videorecording 129
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects--Michigan--Detroit.
- Automobile industry and trade.
- Factories--Location--Social aspects--Michigan--Detroit.
- Factories.
- Factories--Location--Social aspects.
- Factories--Location.
- Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects.
- Poletown (Detroit, Mich.).
- General Motors Corporation.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Art and architecture videos.
- Local Subjects:
- Art and architecture videos.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Mich. : Information Factory, [1982]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Documents the controversy that resulted from the 1980 announcement of General Motors that it planned to build a factory in a residential neighborhood after evicting the people who lived there. Focuses on the political activities undertaken by residents in an unsuccessful attempt to force General Motors to abandon the plan.
- Participant:
- Julie Beutel.
- Credits:
- Camera, Richard Wieske; assistant director, editor, writer, Jeanie Wiley.
- Notes:
- Issued also as motion picture.
- "This program is leased only for showing and educational use by the Lessee and any use of the film or video is limited to the faculty and students of Lessee institution only"--Information Factory film and video rental and license agreement.
- OCLC:
- 187457451
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