[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 34

Datelate 1920s

AbstractReel 34 consists of portions of three professional films about the logging industry from the early 1900s. Each contains intertitles throughout explaining the footage. The first film is about logging in the Northwest region of United States in the Cascade Mountain Range. Footage includes government officials and loggers marking, cutting down and measuring trees, mules and oxen dragging, or twitching, logs, derricks swinging logs, logging trains carrying logs to the mill, a worker marking a “central spar” tree to use as a derrick and a cameraman being pulled up a tree to shoot a view from the top. The second film is about the use of elephants in teak logging. Footage includes elephants and riders moving through the forest, elephants rolling logs with their tusks, pushing logs around in a river and twitching logs. The third film is about the operation of a log flume. Intertitle: “California Lumber Flume Produced by Ernest M. Reynolds”. Footage includes a logger chopping down a tree, logs sliding down the flume, a few shots of a device to notify workers that logs are coming down the flume and workers inspecting the logs. Donor Notes: “Lumbering Early 1900s / Elephant & Teak” Notes on can: “Prof. Film Lumbering USFS Elephant and Teak Flume” Notes in can: “South N.W. Elephants + teak Calif. Lumber flume”