Richard Hale Collection Reel 27

Date1964

AbstractFootage of loggers cutting down and trimming trees and counting the rings on a stump. Footage of a saw mill including workers operating machinery, hauling logs in from the water with a winch and cutting, planing and edging boards before stacking them onto a truck. Footage of workers loading logs onto a truck with a crane. A shot of a bulldozer dragging, or twitching, a log. Footage of men chopping and then loading, unloading and stacking logs with a lift. Footage of a machine taking the bark off of a log. Footage of workers at a saw mill making and transporting boards with a variety of machinery. Footage of loggers cutting trees and hauling and loading logs onto a truck. Two shots of a man measuring logs. Footage of machines being used to unload logs from a truck into a log pond at a mill. Notes on can: “Three parts cued for TV Logging & Milling 1964 Plus The Water Mill. 16 min 33 sec.” Notes in can: “1964 film This is original footage. The water powered mill is Condon’s Mill in So. Penobscot. I think it was willed to the Univ. of Maine Jim Garrin April 1988”