From Trees to Paper

Date1951

AbstractFootage of forests and loggers cutting down a tree. Footage of tree seedlings, seeds and pine cones. Footage of men planting tree seedlings on a hill and with a tree planting machine. Shots of trees at varying ages. Footage of a woodsman in a fire tower spots smoke and reports it to a man in a jeep. A shot of a man in a jeep plowing a fire break as another man sets a back fire. Firemen putting out a forest fire by spraying it and smothering it. Footage of a forester marking trees to be cut with a paint gun. Footage of loggers felling and trimming trees with axes and a variety of mechanized saws before they are hauled off by tractors or put on a conveyor belt. Workmen load logs onto a train. A shot of a mill. Footage of logs being debarked both individually and in batches in a large drum. Footage of workers removing defective logs. Footage of wood chips coming out of a large chipper and moved onto a conveyor belt. Footage of workers loading, sealing and monitoring a digester to cook the wood chips. An animated diagram of how the digester works. Footage of pulp being washed, thinned and fed to a paper machine. Footage of workmen operating a paper machine to create a large roll of paper. Scenes of paper being subjected to a variety of tests in a lab. A few shots of scientists with beakers of liquid conducting research. Footage of a man planting a seedling. Shots of trees and forests. This film is Reel 20 of the the Richard Hale Collection.