WMAR-TV News

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Title

WMAR-TV News

Description

This collection provides a sampling of television news clips from WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. WMAR-TV was the first television station in Baltimore and the eleventh in the United States. Its first broadcast aired on October 30, 1947.


The complete WMAR-TV News collection consists of over six million feet of 16 mm film and videotape created between 1948 and 1987. The collection was donated to the University of Baltimore in 1984 by Abell Communications, Inc.


While the majority of the WMAR-TV News footage currently exists in analog form only, content indices are available in the collection database. Through the support of The John Ben Snow Foundation, Inc. and the University's Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholarship Fund, selected footage has been converted into digital format.

Creator

WMAR-TV (Television Station : Baltimore, Md.)

Date

1952-1974

Contributor

Digitization of material in this collection was made possible through the support of the The John Ben Snow Foundation, Inc. and the University of Baltimore's Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholarship Fund.

Rights

All rights are held by the E.W. Scripps Company. Online, stream-only, nonsublicenseable access has been granted by Scripps. Requests for copies or usage of footage should be directed to University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives.

Format

video/h264

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

R0130-WMAR

Collection Items

The Bethlehem Steel plant in Sparrows Point, Maryland

An arabber on city streets in Baltimore

MUND residents and political officials, including City Councilman William Donald Schaefer, participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hunter Street playground in Baltimore.

A mobile tuberculosis screening unit from the Baltimore City Health Department visits the MUND area.

WMAR-TV reporter Susan White interviews Baltimore City Councilman Bob Douglass at the grand opening celebration of the Sea Host restaurant at the corner of North and Maryland Avenues.

MUND residents celebrate the formal dedication of the Hunter Street playground.

MUND residents hold their first election to select a Board of Directors, comprised of leaders from the community.

Television news interview on the port of Baltimore and the future of containerization

Interview with Parren Mitchell after resignation from the Community Action Agency (CAA)

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) press conference in Baltimore, Md.

Community residents march against drugs in Baltimore, Maryland

General Electric Company workers on strike

A Baltimore City Council stable ordinance and the threat to the economic livelihood of the city's arabbers

An Ocean City official discusses the cleanup and recovery effort following a March 1962 hurricane

Exterior and interior shots of the Snow Hill Democratic Messenger newspaper office. Typesetters, printing press operators, and supervisors are shown working.

Aerial footage of storm damage along the coast of Ocean City, Maryland after a hurricane in March of 1962

The auction of two oceanfront lots in Fenwick, Maryland and an interview with the auctioneer

Interview with a gentleman whose recollections of Ocean City, Maryland include sand streets, high tides that reached Baltimore Avenue, the cost of real estate investment, and the growth of Ocean City

Cars driving northbound on Baltimore Avenue in Ocean City; pedestrians walking on the boardwalk as the tram passes

Views include farmland from U.S. Route 13 in Maryland; the Pocomoke City, Maryland road sign; vehicles travelling over the Pocomoke River bridge; downtown Pocomoke City decorated for Christmas; and the Pocomoke River
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