Tree Felling - A New Method
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Tree-Felling Method. DESCRIPTION: The Australians have been using a steel ball, nine feet in diameter and eight tons in weight, to clear a site for a new pine forest plantation in Victoria. Two bull-dozers tow the ball on heavy chains, which smash down everything in their path, even up-rooting trees. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. CU Ball (iron) fade out to nut being tightened on same. Various shots of the huge iron ball being towed through forest land, & uprooting all before it.
- Keywords
- Forestry
- Locations
- Australia; Victoria
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 58330
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 86
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How to cite this record
'Tree Felling - A New Method', British Movietone News Issue No. 1230A, 1 Jan 1953. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/18278 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)