Scenes from Summer Camp

Date1949 – 1951

AbstractExtensive footage of students at the University of Maine’s Forestry Camp learning and practicing their trade. Footage includes classes taught by professors, park rangers and industry representatives, young men loading lumber, cutting and splitting logs, learning telephone line work, working with various pieces of industry related equipment, such as a cross-cut saw, and vehicles, visiting working lumber camps and mills, practicing firefighting techniques, roofing a cabin, marking trees for cutting, shoeing a horse, debarking a tree, shoveling gravel, building a bridge, surveying logging roads, thinning a forest and establishing sample plots, men fighting a forest fire at Clifford Lake and students engaged in various types of recreation. Intertitles throughout the film explain many of the people, places and events being shown. This film is Reel 21 of the Richard Hale Collection.