Logging in 1950s Georgia | Men of the Forest | Documentary Drama | 1952

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This vintage movie – originally titled as "Men of the Forest" – is a dramatized documentary film on the daily lives of loggers in 1950s Georgia. It tells the story of an African-American family that works hard to save money for a power saw. It also explains timber harvest techniques and process. The film was created in 1952 by the United States Information Service (USIS) and intended for foreign audiences.


HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard. However, in common usage, the term may be used to indicate a range of forestry or silviculture activities.

Clearcut logging is not necessarily considered a type of logging but a harvesting or silviculture method, and is simply called clearcutting or block cutting. In the forest products industry logging companies may be referred to as logging contractors, with the smaller, non-union crews referred to as "gyppo loggers."

Cutting trees with the highest value and leaving those with lower value, often diseased or malformed trees, is referred to as high grading. It is sometimes called selective logging, and confused with selection cutting, the practice of managing stands by harvesting a proportion of trees.

History of logging in the United States:
Logging has been a part of American history and deeply rooted in the growth of the United States since the early 1600s. The lumber industry has been and will continue to be a staple for life and in the past was essentially a vitality for surviving such as building homes, staying warm, and making money through livelihoods such as woodworkers, builders, and more.

The way loggers cut timber has evolved throughout time as well and although methods have changed the work is still equally as difficult. In the beginning, timber was cut near the water because it was an easier way to transport it to where it needed to go in the long run.

When loggers were forced to move away from the water and inland due to lack of trees near the water they used horses and oxen to haul their cut wood through the forest. Next came log flumes, which were essentially water filled troughs that helped guide logs down the stream and were tied together like a raft.

Tools such as chainsaws and handsaws were used and eventually harvesting machines became the main way of logging trees; this machine is called a feller buncher and can quickly cut and gather trees. The logs were then transported to mills and cut into lumber and other products and then exported to a variety of places including locations as far away as China and Australia.

Over the years, logging has become incredibly controversial due to the concern of environmental sustainability and deforestation but it’s important to realize that there are as many pros as there are cons when it comes to logging. However, the United States is still the most established and leading producer of lumber and it is a global business that is extremely important to the economy around us. The timber harvested each year provides raw materials our nation needs to create the goods and services consumers all over want and need.


Logging in 1950s Georgia | Men of the Forest | Documentary Drama | 1952

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NOTE: THE VIDEO REPRESENTS HISTORY. SINCE IT WAS PRODUCED DECADES AGO, IT HAS HISTORICAL VALUES AND CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. THE VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN SENSITIVE SCENES AT ALL!