| Logging in Michigan 1916 | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6250 |
| Catalog #: | 369213 | |
| Clip Number: | 369213-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON411G | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | New Hudson; MI; USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1916 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Logging & Lumber / Timber | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 365701 Industry; labor. Film of lumber industry near New Hudson; Michigan; USA. Sort of a mini-documentary showing the different steps of work at the logging camp. Winter in the forest; 2 workers operate a double saw between them; felling a tree; which falls away from camera. They do the same with a 2nd tree ; it falls to right; in a big cloud of snow. Shot of 3 men hacking the branches off the trunk. Man using a forked stick to roll the trunk through snow and onto a "track" of 2 logs/ team of horses pull sled in BG. He rolls this log across the other 2 perpendicular ones; til it drops off and lands below on a pile of many logs on a sort of platform which is actually a big sled. Next we see team of horses approaching; pulling the sled of logs on a road through the forest. Back view of same; going past 2 men by a little shed. Timber; lumber; wood; transportation. | |
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