Summary

Footage Information

NFB Archives
Pulp and Paper Mill
HAMS of logs moving on conveyor, going into chipper chute. Closer shot of logs in chipper chute being chewed up by chipper blades. Shot of wood chips moving along endless conveyor belt. Shot of operator checking and noting down readings from control console. CU of recording graph, of bank of recording graphs as operator takes down readings. Sequence on charging floor of digester showing operator replacing heavy lid, bolting it down with automatic nut tightener, moving away from steaming digester top, turning large hand valves. Various shots of men, of forklift, moving stacks of sulphite sheets, of crane lowering stacks in hold of ship at night. MSs, CSs of sulphite pulp being processed, bubbling in special vats, being scraped of rollers. HAS of sulphite dryer machine. CUs of rollers, sheet going through, workmen testing pulp for consistency by squeezing water out. Shot of dry sulphite panels coming out of dry end of machine, being pressed into bundles, wired, wrapped. Very dark night shots of special boom crane unloading trucks of logs. Dark shots of men rolling logs on conveyor, of swinging radial saw cutting logs into equal lenghts, of truck loaded with logs driving past camera.
National Film Board
09:20
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
Marathon (Ontario);Northwestern Ontario;Ontario;Canada
35mm neg b&w; 35mm eastman color neg
Video HI 8; Reel 35 mm
4/3
33159
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