Few Winter scenes can approach this picture for beauty, originality, picturesque effect and realistic scenes of an important Canadian industry. This one phase of life in the great northwest... See full summary
Stripping a Forest in Winter (1909) Online
- Original Title :
- Stripping a Forest in Winter
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary / Short
- Year :
- 1909
- Type :
- Movie
- Rating :
- 6.4/10
Few Winter scenes can approach this picture for beauty, originality, picturesque effect and realistic scenes of an important Canadian industry. This one phase of life in the great northwest is depicted with a thoroughness that leaves nothing to be desired, and the whole series, from start to finish, can be depended upon as a rare attraction. The picture gives a truly wonderful trip through a vast forest of pine and shows perfectly many features of the life in the woods and the harvesting of timber. We are first taken to the woodmen's camp of logs in the midst of the snow-covered hills and from there to groves of mammoth trees where we watch the felling of the monarchs of the forest. The photography is so perfect one almost hears the cracking of the limbs and the rush of the immense bodies as they crash to the earth. The intense excitement of the incidents connected with hauling great loads of logs on runners down steep hills at breakneck speed, is seldom rivaled even in dramatic films...
Released in the US as a split reel along with The Turning Point (1909).