Poletown lives! [videorecording] / presented by the Information Factory ; George Corsetti, producer/director ; assistant director/writer, Jeanie Wylie.

Detroit, Mich. : Information Factory, c1982.

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + supplemental educational materials (5 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm)

Documentary that tells, from the residents' point of view, the story of Poletown, an inner-city Detroit neighborhood that was destroyed in 1981 when the city used its power of eminent domain to turn the land over to General Motors for construction of a Cadillac plant. Shows the changes in attitudes as the people realized that the institutions they trusted -- the courts, the United Auto Workers, the church, the City Council, and the media --were not going to help them.

Images / Video & Film

English

January 02, 2013

Editor, Jeanie Wylie ; camera, Richard Wieske.

Narrator, Julie Beutel.

DVD.