[Vermont Forest Service Films] Reel 15

Datecirca 1948

AbstractPan logs stacked in snow. Underexposed shots pans of the sawmill area, with buildings, steam engines, men working, pans stack of sawn boards, men with horse teams moving logs in stream. It appears to be warm weather. Men walk over snow by railroad track where Maine Central Railroad flatbeds hold several small shingled buildings. Men roll logs with ice picks. Intertitle: "Diamond Match Camp at Grindstone." Footage of lumber workers in lumber camp in Maine that makes Diamond matches. Pan log building, poor quality interiors of building with worker's bunks, and men standing around. Men unload logs by sawmill; views of sawmill at work. Men stack planks. Pans of stacks of logs. Intertitle: "Edging the boards." Views of sawmill at work and sawing boards to length. Intertitle: "Tail of mill, showing pit and edger room." Views of building with piles of scrap around, steam from machinery is seen. Intertitle: "Panorama of Grindstone, Maine showing loading facilities and sticking ground." Pan the lumber camp in winter with stacks of lumber lined up along snowy road. View of impressive stacks of sawn planks along railroad track in spring. Donor notes: Can is marked "convention trip"