Synopsis
This 1970 film from Jam Handy Productions gives viewers a look at the daily operations of The Detroit News, as well as insight to what people think of the paper. The film features many short shots of the various employees of the paper as they work to produce the day’s edition. The film opens with footage of a soap box derby, cars driving onto transport carriers, the Detroit city skyline, factories, and various people moving around the city. A Detroit News truck drives through the city. Papers come off a printing press (01:52). The editor of The Detroit News walks into the paper’s building (02:12). Staff work on stories, sip coffee, and plan out the afternoon’s edition. The chief editor meets with his secretary then goes into his office and looks through a paper (03:44). The paper’s managing editor sits at his desk, talking with a journalist (04:27). A man pulls stories off the various wire services. A team puts together the second edition of that day’s paper (06:00). A man buys a newspaper from a street-side vendor (06:20). A journalist talks to the camera about how to get a good straight-version of the story (07:17). Two men box in a ring (08:02); at the gym, a journalist interviews a boxer from Yugoslavia, using a young boy as an interpreter. A journalist sits at a typewriter writing a story (09:47). In his office, the editor speaks to staff about avoiding over-sensationalizing violence while covering a protest (10:36). People march in protest of the war in Vietnam…
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Details
- Running time
- 26 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
- Internet Archive item
- 13154bothsidesofthequestionvwr
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stock Footage