| The South's New Crop | ||
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| Catalog #: | 446995 | |
| Clip Number: | 446995-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1459 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Southern US Forests | |
| Year Shot: | 1959 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Logging & Lumber / Timber | |
| Description: | On preview cassette #98138. This picturesque film deals with the Southern logging industry yet somehow ends up as a timber tractor commercial for Clark Construction equipment. It opens with a LS of an adorable blonde girl painting on an easel; the shot is intercut with a LS of a middle aged man constructing a wall in his garage. The following ensues as we learn about the South's burgeoning logging industry: a MS of cotton plants, tilt up to a LS of a cotton field... a wide LS of a cotton farm house (in BG) and a barren yellow field in FG on a bright sunny day ... MS of shutter doors of an abandoned farm house ... tight LS of abandoned farm house ... LS of a wooded area that is mostly saplings and immature trees ... tight LS of a truck hauling cut trees on a dirt road, pan R w/truck, see the whole area is harvested ... LS of a saw mill's raw lumber yard as a crane lifts up a large load ... tight LS of a mill worker w/ a long staff pulling in floating logs ... tight LS of a man cutting wood w/ an axe in a harvesting area (a yellow tractor moves in the BG) ... CU of chainsaw cutting through a log ... LS of cut timber being hoisted onto a truck for transportatioon ... LS's of timber tractors in action .. montage: how to lift timber w/ a timber tractor ... CU of a tree being debarked in a mill ... tight LS of mass amounts of woodchips travelling on a conveyor belt in a factory mill ... 2 MS's of trees being cut w/ a chainsaw ... 2 LS's of trees falling to the ground ... MS of man in forest hacking off the limbs of a felled tree ... level, wide LS of a barren plains field on a sunny day (nothing but grayness, a dirt road, and telephone wires) ... LS of a crane at a mill yard dumping a load of timber into the wateryard. The narration is straight as a arrow while the images are quite interesting. | |
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