The Tree In A Test Tube

Date1942

AbstractDirected by Charles McDonald, narrated by Pete Smith and Lee Vickers and starring Laurel and Hardy. Pete Smith explains to Laurel and Hardy how many products in their daily lives are made using wood. Lee Vickers narrates the activities of scientists and workers at the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI, including men utilizing a variety of machines, chemists with beakers and test tubes and a worker operating a wood press. An elephant from Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus stands on a plank of wood to demonstrate the strength of the board. A shot of an all wood training plane. Two shots of soldiers building and using a wooden pontoon bridge. A shot of soldiers with rifles wearing gas masks. A shot of horses drawing carts of soldiers in the artillery. A shot of crate being tested in a shimmy machine. Two shots of workers packing and loading crates of rifles. An artillery cannon fires a shot. A shot of the barracks. Two shots of wooden arches used in the making of battleships. Footage of wooden skis being tested. A shot of soldiers with skis dressed in snow gear. A scientist shakes a beaker. Footage of soldiers marching in parades and on the battlefield. Shots of the capitol building, the Forest Products Laboratory and the American flag. This film is Reel 10 of the Richard Hale Collection.