Baseball's Heirlooms - Tiger Stadium
Baseball's Heirlooms - Tiger Stadium
TBC 05:00:30:- to 05:04:25.... MS of older female fans packaging Tiger Stadium promo pictures in an unknown residence...interview w/ worker (memories of park,reasons to save park and methods to do so)... CU of "Happy 76th B-Day Tiger Stadium" sign, pan L to MS of worker on phone... ECU's of newpaper articles re: save Tiger Stad... CU's of "Save Tiger Stadium" T-shirts... TBC 05:04:25:- to 05:04:46:-.... tight LS of a church, tilt down pan R to see Tiger Stadium in distance..........................BREAK IN TBC TBC 00:00:00:00 to 00:10:27:-....... wide LS of church, tilt down pan R to Tiger Stadium in dist..... interview w/Bob W., founder of Save Stadium campaign, stadium in distance (how club was founded and why, very romantic and stmapthetic text, who's supporting efforts, against modern facilities and why)................BREAK IN TBC................. TBC 00:00:00:- to 00:06:45:-.......interview w/Bob's wife, member of club, ext. church (says that she looks like a boy and people think she is her husband's "retarded son", why stadium should be preserved, who wants to take stadium down and why, guy standing behind her looks like Vince Lombardi, weirdo takes several pictures of her from behind) TBC 00:06:45:- to 00:09:37:-.... tight LS of Tiger stadium sign, zoom out to wide LS on gray day, zoom in... LS of fans gathering at the church... MS of S.T.S. van, members handing out paraphanalia... MS's of fans TBC 00:09:37:- to 00:16:00:- interview w/Tom B., former mayoral candidate, outside church (why T.S. should be saved, memories of stadium, what tearing it down says about our culture, why people are attracted to baseball)..... MS of Bob talking to gathered fans over PA, pan R to crowd (lots of pasty complexions and big hair).... LS from behind Bob speaking to group, Stadium in background.... CU from Bob's side, pan L to bored crowd......CU's of crowd, pans R TBC 00:16:00:- to 00:19:50:-..... interview w/middle aged male,outside church (why stadium is in consideration to be torn down, memories, length of fanhood)...... walk and talk interview w/a young couple and child (heritage and history w/stadium, generations)...... LS of fans walking from church to Tiger Stadium on a cold,windy,gray day TBC 00:19:50:- to 00:26:02:- ..... interview w/female member of fanclub... lots of people standing outside stadium wall, ready to hug it (young girl talks about her 11 yr attendance, travelling MS)....... interview w/Bob F., local newscaster (why it's important to keep stadium, long time fan, cut short...).... crew cleans lens as fans converge on stadium while singing "Happy B-Day" way off-key, local newscast station stands idly around, a trailer full of helium balloons is released; a bizarre gathering of bad clothes TBC 00:26:02:- to 00:31:29:-............ CU of "Keep tigers in their natural habitat" sign w/Tigers logo......... MS of woman dressed in tiger siut... CU of "Detroit Baseball Club" sign... CU of Tiger Stadium Historic Site Plaque.... interview w/ young androgynous person (face like a boy,clothes like a girl)....interview w/Nancy, member of fanclub (value of stadium to history, sad commentary to tear site down) END OF TAPE