" BALTIMORE GEOGRAPHY: JONES FALLS THE STREAM THAT SHAPED A CITY" 1970 EDUCATIONAL FILM XD26715

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Produced by the Baltimore City Public Schools, “Baltimore’s Geography: Jones Falls - The Stream that Shaped a City” (c.1970) is an educational film about Jones Falls, a 17.9-mile-long stream in Maryland. It has a long history as a transportation corridor. Narrated by Arthur Laupus, the film seeks to underscore how the stream flows through the heart of the city and how it influenced past growth and development as well as its contemporary impact on Baltimore, specifically how it shaped Baltimore’s neighborhoods and urban infrastructure.

Film opens, seagull perched on dock (0:10). Baltimore Inner Harbor historic seaport, tourist attraction (0:18). Federal Hill Park cannon facing the city skyline, boats at docks in Chesapeake Bay (0:21). Cranes load industrial goods onto commercial vessels at Port of Baltimore (0:26). Street scenes different areas of city, varied topography from rolling hills to flatlands due to city’s unique location between Piedmont Plateau and Atlantic Coastal Plain (0:37). Northern and Western Baltimore in Piedmont Region: Narrow stream valley, rocky soil; Shots of neighborhoods i.e. Mount Washington, Edmondson Village, Northwood, Windsor Hill (1:50). Southern and Eastern part of city on Atlantic Coastal Plain: City skyline, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower in distance; Neighborhoods i.e. Old Town, Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, South Baltimore (2:11). Baltimore fire Station Engine House no.6 in Old Town (2:22). Map of city highlighting The Fall Line running across city (2:33). Francis Scott Key Bridge (2:47). Natural streams running from north to south creating small waterfalls along The Fall Line i.e. Jones Falls, Herring Run (2:59). 18th century oil painting depicting early development of Baltimore, waterfall in background (3:44). Title, opening credits (4:14). Beginning of Joans Falls in Chattolanee Spring section of Green Spring Valley (4:25). Montage clips of various parts of the stream as it winds its way through farmland, rocky terrain of Northwestern Maryland towards Baltimore; Expands in size (4:35). Fisherman canoes along still waters of Lake Roland in Robert E. Lee Memorial Park (6:26). Waterfall of white water running along Lake Roland Dam (c.1860), the Lake Roland Water Supply Project (6:46). Water power: Mill wheel along waterway, water used to turn wheel for production of wheat, cotton (7:15). Mount Washington Mill (c.1811), Maryland’s first cotton mill (7:45). Colonial-era homes in Hamden-Woodbury neighborhood (8:06). Black-and-white archival photos of early flour mills, industrial revolution and evolution of industry, transformation of flour mills to cotton mills (8:13). Perhaps Lady Maryland topsail schooner, locally sourced cotton duck sails (8:40). Aerial view of Clipper Mill, Clipper Mill Road (8:53). Bright red brick exterior of Mt. Vernon Mills (c.1873) (9:10). Examples of mill houses, previously for mill workers, in Stone Hill neighborhood (9:27). Close-up house exterior, granite stone walls (10:03). Example of what would have been a manger’s home, larger than typical mill house (10:23). Florence Crittenton Home, former home of David Carroll owner of Mount Vernon Mill Company (10:46). Remains of old mills along Joans Falls (10:59). Rounds Falls underneath Twenty-Ninth St. Bridge (11:30). Interior of Poole & Hunt Foundry and Machine Works in Woodberry (11:44). Robert Poole Jr. High (12:05). Meadow Mill (12:20). Archival images of damage to city infrastructure due to flooding of Joans Falls (12:28). Joans Falls impact on architecture: Post office depot built into curve of river bed (13:16). Archival image surveying damage caused by 1904 Great Baltimore Fire, hazardous waste dumped in Joans Falls (14:03). Construction of 21-foot wide underground tunnel network to direct untreated waters of Jones Falls toward new Eastern Avenue pumping station; “Fallsway” (14:35). Underground luncheon in tunnel ahead of opening (15:10). Traffic drives along Fallsway (15:23). St. Vincent de Paul Church (15:37). Soil erosion caused by Joans Falls (16:12). Gabion brick retaining wall, process of construction (16:34). Film ends (20:10).

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