Logging in Maine

Date1906

Viewing NotesDated June 1 and 3, 1906. 'The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are of loggers performing the various operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men keep them headed with the flow of water toward the lake on which the mill is located. The activities of approximately a dozen men were photographed.' (Niver description.) Film includes long lake scenes of men walking on logs with pick poles; one man lies down on log in water. Also short scenes of batteaus (river boats) and men working on a dam sluiceway.