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Your Friend The Forest: Save It Or Destroy It

Reel Number: 221537-13

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1954

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 21:00:32

TC Ends: 21:06:55

Duration: 00:06:23

Your Friend The Forest: Save It Or Destroy It Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Elementary Conservation Series CU typewriter w/ memo from Conservation Foundation being typed: This is a story told with pictures. Animation saw cutting wood - house-building. Lumber arrives on truck, animated plank escapes by flying away, little boy jumps on back - VO: I’m going back where I came from, I like being a tree. 21:01:57 Real forest scenes w/ birds singing, bear & deer - aerial. 21:02:30 Logging w/ chainsaws: Timber! called & tree falls, dragged. Saw mill cutting large planks, boards. 21:03:10 Barren hillside w/ tree stumps. Planting new trees. Sign ‘Forest Industries Tree Nursery’. Rows of tree saplings. Nearly mature trees. 21:03:49 Animation tree marked w/ ‘X’, lumberjack about to chop it down but tree turns into plank w/ a face which runs away - boy jumps on again & plank flies off. VO “Guess I’ll just have to get used to being a board” - flies over newly-built house w/ cheering crowd & slots itself into last hole in wall - shakes hands w/ little boy. 21:04:17 CU typewriter typing: Now suppose THIS happens. 21:04:29 Animation empty building sites w/ sign: Work Stopped - No Lumber. Boy gets his friend the plank to fly him to forest - man drives past & throws cigarette into forest. Cut to: 21:05:09 Real cigarette burning in undergrowth - deer, chipmunk & moose look up - fire spreads. Animals run thru forest - ducks fly away. Huge forest fire. 21:06:09 Smoking ashes & stripped tree trunks after fire. 21:06:27 Animation boy flies on plank to building site, replaces Work Stopped sign w/ Prevent Forest Fires. CU typewriter What Was The Story?. The End. Nature / Wildlife; Ecology; Environment; Construction Industry; Natural Resources; Disasters; Myths; Home Building Industry; NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.

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