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hat could 32-year-old $89,000 in a two-hour time pe-
Mark Nathanson riod, setting a record for the
possibly remember most dollars pledged per minute
about life in Detroit at the station."
Nathanson got the idea for the
back at the turn of the century
second documentary following
through 1963?
Not much. So, for the past two meetings with the Detroit His-
years, he's been relying on the torical Museum and its new ex-
anecdotes of key Detroiters who hibit, which highlights 100 years
of the automotive in-
were witnesses to the
places and events Mark Natha nson and the dustry.
"Detroit Remem-
that helped shape Charles Brad y King car, the
Detroit. With those first car built in Michigan. ber When II" will
recollections, Brady King made his first pay tribute to the
Nathanson last year trip March 6 , 1896, down automobile centen-
Woodwar d. "Detroit
nial and the changes
created the docu-
mentary "Detroit Re- Remember When II" airs in Detroit that came
about from the evo-
member When," a exactly 100 years later.
lution of the auto-
Michigan Association
of Broadcasters Merit Award motive industry.
Nathanson says the film will
winner, and now he is feverish-
ly trying to put the finishing be presented in three parts. Part
touches on "Detroit Remember I looks at how Detroit became
When II," slated to premiere at the Motor City — the Highland
8 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, on Park plant where the Model T
Channel 56 during its Festival was first built on the assembly
line, Henry Ford's infamous
Pledge Drive.
Nathanson, a program pro- $5/day job offer and the widen-
ducer at Channel 56, has worked ing of Woodward in 1935.
Part II spotlights the archi-
at the station for more than 10
years, following his graduation tectural treasures of the city —
from the Maize 'n' Blue with a the DIA, Detroit Public Library,
the Grand Circus Park
dual major in commu-
Theater District and
nications and theater.
surrounding movie
Nathanson was a pro-
palaces (Wilson The-
gram producer for
atre, now the Music
"Club Connect," a
Hall, and the Michigan
weekly teen-magazine
show that eventually
Theatre).
The third part looks
became a national PBS
at Detroit in 1935 — the
program. He won two
JULIE SMITH
City of Champions —
Michigan Emmys for
TULLES
when the Tigers won
his work on the show
ARTS &
the World Series, the Li-
and was nominated
ENTERTAINMENT
ons won the National
five times.
EDITOR
Championship, the Red
"In 'Detroit Remem-
Wings won-the Stanley
ber When,' we talked
about summer memories in De- Cup and Joe Louis entered into
troit such as the amusement national prominence.
"'Detroit Remember When II'
parks, looked at the Vernor's
plant, Ford Rotunda and is not so much about the past as
Olympia Arena. We also ex- it was, but the past as how it's
plored the musical legacy of De- remembered," said Nathanson.
troit, starting with the Vanity "We strive to get personal about
Ballroom on Jefferson and the Detroit. We have an interview
Grand Ballroom, then Motown with a man who was a bat boy
and the Woodward streetcars," for the Tigers in 1935 and was
said Nathanson.
very close to Hank Greenberg."
For the section on architec-
"When the program made its
initial showing during last year's ture, Nathanson interviewed
March Pledge Drive, we raised Rosalie Kahn Butzel about her