| THE CHARCOAL BURNERS - A JAPANESE SIDELIGHT Wood is made into charcoal in Japan. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6747 |
| Catalog #: | 432724 | |
| Clip Number: | 432724-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 157 | |
| Timecode: | 01:50:20 - 01:53:58 | |
| Location: | Japan | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Ethnic / Cultural INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Misc LOCATIONS/ASIA: Japan | |
| Description: | THE CHARCOAL BURNERS - A JAPANESE SIDELIGHT Wood is made into charcoal in Japan. Charcoal making by traditional methods in Japan. LS 2 men on wooded hillside, chopping down a tree. MS one man chopping w/ axe while another man saws on other side of trunk. LS tree falling. MS the 2 men sawing the trunk in sections. MLS they load the log sections on their backs and walk away. MS back view men walking away through forest - looks like piles of logs moving. MS man kneels as he loads wood into oven built into a rock wall, poking the logs in w/ a pole. MCU pole scooping the smouldering chopped up wood out of the oven. This wood then gets water dumped on it, and the worker scoops it all around in a pile, w/ much smoke rising from it. LS tilt down: 2 workers loading the pieces into straw baskets and dump these into a "straw barrel". MS same. LS worker setting out for town carrying the straw barrel full of charcoal on his back. Man carrying his load down hill through woods. | |
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