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Wide of river and barge2. Pan right from father and son in observation area of Louisiana capitol building to river 3. Various wide shots of river4. Wide of barge pulling to dockNew Orleans - 14 July 20085....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBaton Rouge - 12 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of river and barge\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan right from father and son in observation area of Louisiana capitol building to river \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various wide shots of river\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of barge pulling to dock\u003cbr/\u003eNew Orleans - 14 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of sign reading Tulane University \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various set ups of Dr Richard Campanella walking \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English): Dr Richard Campanella, Geographer and Associate Director of the Centre for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University in New Orleans \u003cbr/\u003e\"it is probably best to think of the river in terms of its watershed rather than a single channel, and the watershed is about 1.2 million square miles. It drains part or all of 31 American states plus two Canadian provinces, 41 percent of the continental US and about 15 percent of all of North America. The Lake Itasca in Minnesota is traditionally thought of as being the headwaters, but a case can be made that the water coming down the Ohio or the Missouri can also be the headwaters. It is really for historical reasons that we think of that central channel going up to Minnesota has been THE Mississippi River.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e8. Campanella showing map \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English): Dr Richard Campanella, Geographer and Associate Director of the Centre for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University in New Orleans\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is the Missouri, which is the source of most of the sediment, the Arkansas and the Tennessee River over here, New Orleans is located here, and this is the mouth of the Mississippi.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e9. Campanella's hand showing map \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English): Dr Richard Campanella, Geographer and Associate Director of the Centre for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University in New Orleans \u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything below this area was created by seasonal flooding of the Mississippi. You are looking at the lowermost 200 miles of the river here. Here is the city of New Orleans, and then another 95 miles will reach the Birdfoot Delta, the mouth of the river and the Gulf of Mexico.\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Campanella at computer\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of monitor showing animation of Mississippi river flow, topographic view\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Louisiana State Museum sign\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of pool of water on grounds of museum \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide interior of museum \u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of display with Mississippi river flow\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of river display\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of multimedia river display\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of map of Louisiana lit up\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of sign of Historic New Orleans Collection  \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of Director of Museum Programs John Lawrence walking into museum \u003cbr/\u003e21. Set up of Lawrence walking and stopping to fix a frame on wall\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English): John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, Historic New Orleans Collection  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The people of Louisiana have had a lifelong relationship with the Mississippi River. The lands along its banks have been centres of population, and for the most part there has been a very good relationship between the river and the population. During historical times, sometimes the river gets \"angry,\" is one way to characterise it, and gets out of its banks and floods, and causes great destruction. People have not only learned to control that, to the degree that one can control nature, but to live with it, anticipate it, and to try to manage their lives around it.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close pan of drawing \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English): John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, Historic New Orleans Collection  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The book that we are seeing now is one addition of a publication called \"the Navigator\", this one is from 1811 and it really shows how people used the river and how unfamiliar they may have been with it. \u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan from Lawrence to publications \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English): John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, Historic New Orleans Collection  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The river just sort of stops in mid continent, from here it appears to be somewhere in the vicinity of Memphis Tennessee.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Zoom into old map of Louisiana \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English): John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, Historic New Orleans Collection  \u003cbr/\u003e\"It abruptly stopped just north of the description of this whole territory which the French named 'La Louisiane' in honour of the monarch Louis XIV.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of old drawing\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English): John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs, Historic New Orleans Collection\u003cbr/\u003e\"The river has become more popular through the efforts of writers certainly like Mark Twain; and as the country expanded and developed and the river played an important part of that development, then people began to understand the importance of this great waterway. And it became popularised through novels, through short stories, through music and through the transmission of culture by travel along its length.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew Orleans - 12 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e28. Various of river traffic \u003cbr/\u003e29. Close up of swirls in the water \u003cbr/\u003eThe Mighty Mississippi River, locally known as the Old Man River, is a landmark, a legend and a tourist hotspot. \u003cbr/\u003eBut up to a hundred years ago, it played a key part into the economic development of the Midwestern United States. \u003cbr/\u003eThe top of the Louisiana State Capitol building in the state's capital Baton Rouge is a great spot to catch a breathtaking view of one of the world's most majestic rivers, the Mississippi. \u003cbr/\u003eShips course back and forth along its passages and cars make their way over long bridges that span its width.   \u003cbr/\u003eBut the Mississippi is also an important international portal for shipments of goods like agricultural products, steel and petrochemicals.  \u003cbr/\u003eTulane University professor, geographer and author Richard Campanella emphasises that the Mississippi ranks among the largest rivers in the world.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says its specific rank, however, depends on how you measure it.  \u003cbr/\u003eBack in Campanella's office, a computer animation shows the geography of the river and the communities along its banks. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Mississippi crosses southern Louisiana from Baton Rouge, through New Orleans and down to the delta.   \u003cbr/\u003eAs the geographer says, the Mississippi has many tributaries, but it is generally measured from Lake Itasca in northwestern Minnesota. \u003cbr/\u003eFrom this source to the Gulf of Mexico, the river travels 2,348 miles (3,779 kilometres). \u003cbr/\u003eIt first curves southward to Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota, then forms part or all of the eastern borders of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and the western borders of Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. \u003cbr/\u003eThe river naturally changes course over time, but has been kept in place by a series of levees.  \u003cbr/\u003eIt's hard to spend much time on the river's banks without taking note of its extensive role in shipping and transportation - giant cargo ships, ferries, steamboats and barges all navigate its waters. \u003cbr/\u003eShippers in particular benefit from access to the Mid-America inland waterway system, with more than 6,000 ocean vessels travelling its 14,500 miles of waters each year.   \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Mississippi has shaped the communities along its banks in many ways. \u003cbr/\u003eThe museum is showing a collection of documents and maps dating back to the days of Robert de LaSalle, the French explorer who made his way from Canada down the river to the Gulf of Mexico in 1682. \u003cbr/\u003eOne map shows a part of LaSalle journey, other types of maps show variations in the river's course over time and locations of plantations, which lined its banks. \u003cbr/\u003eLater maps show the entire river, but with many inaccuracies, Lawrence says. \u003cbr/\u003ePopularity of the 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