STK-ID 15482

Two shots of prefabricated logging camp and sign at the Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. Sequence on lumberjack in woods, wielding bucksaw, axe, cross cut saw, felled trees. Shots of trees falling. Shots of men branching trees in snow. Sequence on felled trees being chained to dragline, being hauled away through underbrush. Cut to donkey engine, operator, powering dragline. Shots of tractor-drawn sulky arch dragging bunch of logs to saw mill. Sequence on logs being fed to saw, saw cutting logs into four foot lengths, conveyor moving cut logs to truck. Sequence on portable saw mill cutting logs into four foot lengths, of saw biting into wood. Shot of truck driving away with full load, backing up to chute and unloading into chute. Sequence showing load of logs sliding down and into water from top of chute, from bottom, from side. Splash in water as pulp wood hits water of Sault-au-Cochon River. Sequence on tractor moving one of the prefabricated camps, camp being moved out on flatbed trailer. (02/12/1947)

DETAILS

Excerpt from
Mechanized Logging
Location
Forestville
Year
1947
Collection
National Film Board
Available formats
Digital Bétacam, Reel 35 mm, Digital Video Disk
Shooting format
35mm fine grain b&w
Aspect ratio
4/3
Available resolutions
720 x 486