CANADIAN TIMBER MEN AT WORK IN SOUTHERN HOLLAND [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CANADIAN TIMBER MEN AT WORK IN SOUTHERN HOLLAND [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 200-2
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  • Summary: Timber for 'corduroy' road construction work in 8th Crops' sector of 2nd Army's front is provided by No 30 Company Canadian Forestry Corps.
  • Description: Two CMP 2-ton lorries, one from the forestry unit carrying timber, negotiate a mud track in a forest near Deurne. Lumberjacks fell young trees with axes and saws and chop tree trunks in two. A CMP lorry deposits newly- felled logs at the company's sawmill; lumbermen sort the logs out and feed them individually into a belt-driven circular saw which splits the timber down the middle. The logs are then stacked nearby for despatch front-line road matiers. A US-manufactured Reo 29XS 7 ton tractor and its semi-trailer loaded with timber gets bogged down leaving the sawmill and is helped clear by a bulldozer. Lumbermen feed logs into the saw and clear away sawdust. A second Reo tractor with a trailer arrives at the sawmill and is loaded up with split logs. Another CMP lorry-load of timber is off-loaded and rolled down to the sawmill. The cameraman studies lumbermen at work, the circular saw in action and the resident strongman humping logs onto another semi-trailer.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-11-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Palmer, F A W (Production individual)
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  • Keywords: Netherlands & <south> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 591 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: See with A70 193-3, which features the construction of a corduroy road near Venraij, and with A70 182-1, 2 and 12 for footage showing traffic coping with the de Pell region's poor quality road network. CMP - Canadian Military Pattern (lorry), the designation given to all military trucks and lorries manufactured by General Motors (Chevrolet) and Ford in Canada under British War Office auspices. Remarks: Good footage. Best seen with the items of ciné material listed above, notably A70 193-3.
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