From Stump to Ship (multiple gauges)

1200.0001, .0003-.0012
Machias, Machias River Valley, Maine
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Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, as well as the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Lumber company president Alfred Ames and loggers pose in logging camp. Horses twitching logs through woods. Includes footage of lumber loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York and schooner being towed to sea by sardine boat. Narration is provided by Maine humorist Tim Sample, reading the original 1930 script written by Ames. // Note: Ames sold his land to the Seaboard Paper Company which became St. Regis and then Champion International Corporation.
16 mm. print, first answer print 16 mm. print, Print C 1 in. xfer at 18.24 fps with no audio, made 2/20/87 = Acc. 1200.0005 1 in. master, with tags made Fall 1996 (this is used for duplication) = Acc. 1200.0003 1 in. copy (of 1 in. master?) = Acc. 1200.0004 3/4 in. master 35 mm. blow-up dupe negative (2 reels), made at Cineric 04/2003 35 mm. blow-up dupe opt. track negative (2 reels), made at Cineric 04/2003

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