“ PILGRIMAGE TO BALTIMORE “ 1960s MARYLAND TRAVELOGUE FILM SPONSORED BY SHELL OIL XD11564

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This 1960s color travelogue film was made by Shell Oil through the Shell Films program. The film highlights Maryland’s many cultural, historic, and recreational offerings making sure to highlight the important industries as well as modern and colonial architecture across the state’s cities and towns. US Naval Academy at Annapolis graduation: US Navy Marching Band, Mahan Hall Clock Tower (0:11). Families enjoy Sandy Point State Park (0:46). Chesapeake Bay Bridge (0:59). Residential street Eastern Shore (1:17). The Wye Oak, Wye Oak State Park (1:24). Quaint dock on Chester River (1:45). Chestertown townspeople greet arrivals (1:50). Colonial-style homes, Chestertown Historic District (2:06). Manicured gardens (2:18). Tidewater Estates (2:27). Talbot County Courthouse in Easton, Maryland (2:38). Commercial street in downtown Easton (2:47). Downtown street in Salisbury (3:00). Agricultural workers harvest crops (3:08). Cantaloupes in basket (3:17). Farmer gathers ripe tomatoes (3:21). Crates of picked strawberries (3:30). Baby chicks in box (3:42). Adult chickens flood out of coop (3:55). Cooked chicken on a platter (3:57). Car drives over bridge in Crisfield (4:01). Various fishing boats in harbor (4:04). Chesapeake sailboat (“Bugeye”) (4:14). Fishermen search for oysters using long wooden sticks (4:28). Deep water boat collects oysters with steel tongs (4:32). Modern clam digger, clams on conveyor belt (4:45). Sorted muscles, clams brought to fish market (4:57). Fisherman uses net to capture Maryland blue crabs (5:14). Two men sit and sort crabs into floating cribs off of dock (5:33). Crab boil feast (6:02). Sunbathers and colorful umbrellas, Ocean City (6:18). Deep sea fishing: man struggles to reel in Marlin (6:46). Sky dotted with flying geese and ducks on winter migration (7:22). Hunter and Chesapeake Bay Retriever Dog at duck/ geese (7:40). Aerial view of homes, industry, and trees lining the Chesapeake (8:28). Chesapeake Bay Islands: boats sailing through the channels (8:40). Boys climb on cannon, look at Baltimore skyline (9:49). Public city busses and cars pass each other on busy street (10:09). Enoch Pratt Library (10:14). State Office Building, West Preston Street (10:26). Johns Hopkins University Campus, Medical School, Hospital (10:39). Baltimore Museum of Art (10:45). Washington Monument of Baltimore (11:00). Marquis de Lafayette Statue (11:04). Baltimore Battle Monument (11:09). Lee & Jackson Monument (11:12). Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument (11:16). Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key wrote “Star-Spangled Banner” (11:22). Port of Baltimore: large commercial cargo ship (11:48). Train-yard with commercial freight cars (11:51). Baltimore Harbor Tunnel (12:03). Aerial view of Baltimore’s port and industrial complexes (12:19). Machine unloads iron ore imported from oversees (12:37). Piping hot steel ore moves through production line, perhaps Sparrows Point steel mill (12:43). Steel used at shipyard for ship repair (13:06). Finished ocean vessel (13:26). Coal loaded onto ship (13:31). Machines unload bananas from ships brought from the West Indies and Central America (13:34). Man stacks bags of Brazilian coffee beans (13:41). Close-up of hand sifting through tea grains from India (13:47). Close-up McCormick spices from Madagascar, Singapore, Malaysia, East Africa (13:51). Spices packed by machine at McCormick factory (14:11). Sherwood Gardens (14:27). Oriole bird (15:01). Baltimore Orioles Memorial Stadium (15:11). Baltimore Colts football game (16:04). Farmlands (16:29). Self-propelled wheat combine harvester (16:46). 1960s IH No. 234 Corn Harvester (16:50). Harvested tobacco loaded onto tractor bed (16:57). Hay harvest (17:10). Maryland dairy cows graze (17:22). Horses at stables (17:31). Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course (17:51). Picnicking families (18:37). Maryland Hunt Cup (18:52). Black-eyed Susan (19:35). Maryland Piedmont Region: historic town of Frederick (19:43). Frederick County Courthouse (19:50). Home of Barbara Fritchie (20:01). Antietam National Battlefield (20:15). New York State Monument (20:20). Downtown Hagerstown (20:33). Interior of Moller Pipe Organ Factory, craftsman at work (20:44). Man plays completed organ (21:25). Town-scape of Cumberland (21:56). Cumberland Narrows (22:05). Cumberland Community Forest Park (22:17). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit