Redwood Saga
Redwood Saga is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Shows the cutting, loading, transportation, mill sawing and finishing operations of the redwood lumber industry of northern California. Includes footage of huge old-growth redwood trees being felled (cut down) and removed from the forest.
04:21:36:00 Redwood Saga 36693 Extremely disturbing film of redwood logging, with narration describing just how ancient and irreplacable the redwoods are.
04:23:44:00 med shot - looking up at man on scaffold cutting into enormous tree VO - "...cutting their way into trees that may be as old as our civilization..." camera pans slowly up enormous redwood VO - "...for the redwood trees of California are probably the oldest of living things." (04:23:53:00) 04:23:54:00 med shot of two men sawing into enormous trunk VO - "The redwoods that grow along the coast live to be two thousand years old." (04:24:00:00)
04:24:15:00 med wide shot of two men sawing into giant redwood VO - "All of the world s history since..." 04:24:19:00 med shot up at man on scaffolding cutting into tree VO - "...Christ was born could have occurred during the life of perhaps one of these redwoods." 04:24:24:00 med shot up at man on scaffolding - different angle
(04:24:28:00)| Redwood Saga | |
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| Produced by | Haselton (Guy D.) |
Production company | Haselton (Guy D.) |
| Distributed by | Haselton (Guy D.) |
Release date | 1940 |
Running time | 10:27 |
| Language | English |
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