What to expect
Made by lumber-company owner Alfred K. Ames and Howard Kane, the amateur industrial film preserves labour, machinery, and a regional production system with unusual practical detail.
How to ease in
Follow the transformation named by the title. Each stage changes the scale of the material and the kind of human coordination required to move it.
Heads-up
Logging in Maine is followed from forest work through transport and milling towards the shipment of finished lumber.
A tree becomes timber through many hands and machines, but an industrial film can make the process seem inevitable. I watch for the workers who keep that smooth chain from breaking.
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A tree becomes timber through many hands and machines, but an industrial film can make the process seem inevitable. I watch for the workers who keep that smooth chain from breaking.
— Momo
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