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Film Description
The Baltimore Plan (1953)
Sponsors: Baltimore Redevelopment Commission; Fight Blight Fund Inc. Production Co.: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. Directors/Producers/Writers: Selma Weisenborn, John Barnes. Camera: Louis Clyde Stoumen. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 20 minutes.
Short detailing how the City of Baltimore overcame lethargy to launch a slum rehabilitation campaign.
Note: Received a Freedoms Foundation award in 1953. John Barnes made films for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, which produced and distributed The Baltimore Plan at the urging of the Fight Blight Fund. For a list of Barnes’s films, see Geoff Alexander, “Barnes’ Filmography,” Academic Film Archive of North America, www.afana.org/barnesfilms.htm.
Resources
“Nonprofit Concern Fights Slums,” Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 11, 1953, 10.