SILVER SPRING:
A Sense of Place in the Suburbs
DOCUMENTARY PROPOSAL
CONCEPT
Like other, older American suburbs, Silver Spring has been shaped by forceful architectural and social trends – aesthetics vs. ...
Silver Spring has always eluded description. ... And yet Silver Spring has endured from its founding in the 1840’s to its re-invention today - as a place apart from others.
Inauspicious, quirky, even a tad rebellious - Silver Spring’s amorphous nature, its refusal to fit neatly into preconceptions of what a suburb is supposed to be is part of what makes it what it is. Silver Spring has never been particularly trendy or fashionable - but it is a place people have been drawn to by its proximity to the District of Columbia, its lack of pretension, its workmanlike, all-American sense of energy.
Silver Spring’s history is safeguarded in the memories of its residents, and is being kept alive by a handful of dedicated citizens under the aegis of the Silver Spring Historical Society. But no documentary has ever told the history of this unique place… until now.
We’ll tell that story in our 30-minute documentary, “Silver Spring: A Sense of Place in the Suburbs.” Using the excellent archive of images from the Silver Spring Historical Society, along with re-creations and first-person narratives from Silver Spring’s residents and insights from humanities scholars, we’ll weave a historical profile of Silver Spring with a human touch.
Like many of America’s older, closer-in suburbs, the history of Silver Spring mirrors the history of middle America. The same forces that have molded American communities since the mid 19th century have shaped and buffeted Silver Spring: restless expansion, depression and prosperity, urban sprawl, and immigration, and renewal. ... Silver Spring went from a sleepy farm community in the late19th century to a booming commercial center in the mid 20th century to a desolate commercial wasteland in the late 20th century.
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