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Principal Product

Description: A "public service presentation of Chrysler Corporation" that shows a humorous story of a journalist who is sent to photograph the new line of Chrysler cars at an auto show in Detroit. The journalist's photographer doesn't make the trip so he warily hires a six-year-old photographer, Junebug Clark, who saves the day. A schoolteacher, standing at a blackboard, introduces the story and talks about Detroit's reputation as a car manufacturing town or "Motor City." The conclusion of the video reveals… more
Date: 1956
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Chrysler Corporation

[Art Class at the DIA]

Description: Photograph of children's art class at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Narrative by Junebug Clark: I might be in this photo. I spent many hours and days in classes and wandering the DIA. I sat for hours studying the Dutch Master paintings there trying to figure out the different light sources the painters used to light their subjects and where they came from and how they hid those lights so they were not in the painting. I still do. Photo by Bernice Clark. Signed by: Bernice Clark Clark PhotoFil… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Clark, Bernice

[Junebug Clark]

Description: Photograph of Junebug Clark, age 6, off the set of "Principal Product" a Chrysler Motor Company movie short produced to introduce their line of new cars. Junebug is wearing a Davey Crocket raccoon skin cap, six shooters, a 4x5 Speed Graphic and his Leica 3g." This is the outfit that Junebug wears in his first appearance in the made for TV seventeen minute movie short. Photo by Bernice Clark. Signed by: Bernice Clark Clark PhotoFile: 7164-0001-19
Date: 1956
Creator: Clark, Bernice

[Children in the Detroit Institute of Arts]

Description: Photograph of a boy and a girl looking for places to put their art on the ground in a hallway of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mounted pieces line the hallway walls, whereas the children's work is placed along the ground. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0025-22
Date: October 1955
Creator: Clark, Bernice & Clark, Joe

[Polish Class]

Description: Photograph of pairs of children spinning and dancing at the Polish National Alliance Hall. "Bernice Clark" is signed in the lower left corner of the image.
Date: March 1958
Creator: Clark, Bernice & Clark, Joe

[Summer Art Workshop]

Description: Photograph of a child at the summer art workshop in the Detroit Institute of Arts. In this image, the unidentified boy is standing on a table in front of the instructor, wrapped in a blanket.
Date: July 15, 1958
Creator: Clark, Bernice & Clark, Joe

[Aerial Photo of Detroit Skyline]

Description: Photograph of Detroit, Michigan out of an airplane window. Dark clouds and the moon have been superimposed above the city, and the wing of the airplane is visible on the right side of the image. Narrative by Junebug Clark: This photo is the cover image of the Joe Clark book, "Detroit: God's Greatest City" Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Signed by: Joe Clark, HBSS Clark PhotoFile: 7800-111
Date: 1959
Creator: Clark, Joe
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