# The Baltimore Plan

Produced to promote the point of view of the Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, this film offers significant photography of Black communities in urban environments, particularly communities hard-hit by decades of racist housing discrimination. Its wraparound narrative promotes neighborhood improvement sponsored by local government and supported by a housing court that assigns some responsibility for living conditions back to residents. For more information about the history of institutionalized racism in housing in Baltimore that contributed to the conditions shown in this film, see: https://www.mdhistory.org/baltimores-pursuit-of-fair-housing-a-brief-history/ (accessed 6/25/2026) An uncritical description published contemporaneously in Educational Film Guide (1954-1958) states: "Documents a plan in which municipal agencies and citizen groups cooperated in a program for housing improvement. Reveals the success of this plan in Baltimore in raising the quality of housing to meet acceptable standards of health and sanitation. Includes scenes of cases in the Baltimore Housing Court." For more on producer John Barnes, visit http://www.afana.org/barnesbio.htm (accessed: 08-02-2024)

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1953
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, John Barnes
- Genres: History, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/205081_The_Baltimore_Plan)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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