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Holmes (Burton) FilmsForestry and Forest Industries (1946)

Forest rangers at work and people engaged in harvesting, processing, and distributing forest products.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: Holmes (Burton) Films
Sponsor: N/A
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Occupations: Forestry

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - November 14, 2006
Subject: Many of My Best Friends Are Lumberjacks, and Only a Few of Them Wear Women's Clothes
Another film in the âYour Lifeâs Workâ series, this one goes over careers in forestry, covering both conservation work and the lumber industry. Iâm sure Iâve seen some of this footage before, perhaps in Felling Forest Giants or some of the Department of the Interior films Iâve seen recently. At any rate, this is a pretty ordinary film, though it does have some striking images of forests and lumbering at a few points.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: **. Weirdness: **. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - June 3, 2003
Subject: Do You Like Wood?
Because if you do, maybe you'll consider a career in the forestry industry! This film, from the ususally-reliable Burton Life-Work series, seems to be a let down, as the narrator seems to pooh-pooh the idea of working in the forestry industry (In automotives, of course, you need physics). The occupation is almost made to look bland in the film, which hurts the interest level.

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Forest rangers at work and people engaged in harvesting, processing, and distributing forest products. The work of the logger, trimmer, lumberjack, and grader is explained.

22:00:55
VO: "When the white man first came to North America, a great part of the continent was clothed in majestic forests."
Aerial view of forests
22:01:25
Early settlers cutting and burning forests
22:01:45
Raw cleared land - deforested
22:01:54
Forest fires
22:03:59
Men in foreground fighting forest fire in background
22:05:38
CU Man's hands doing chemistry experiments
22:07:01
Logging camp
22:08:30
Aerial view lumberyard