Unforgettable individuals who worked for the Machias Lumber Company in Maine before 1930 share their recollections of a vanished world of winter life in rough-hewn lumber camps, a spring of raging waters, frozen boots and life-threatening log jams, and summer in the deafening mill as bare hands hold wood to unguarded saw blades. Gold Medal, International Film and TV Festival.
30 minutes
A companion piece to From Stump to Ship: A 1930s Logging Film.