Public access. Kevin Hunter discusses the history of logging in the Franklin River area.

Public access. Kevin Hunter discusses the history of logging in the Franklin River area.

Television stock shots

Television stock shots. Can label indicates footage is "dark and rainy".

Amateur film. Franklin River logging camp near Port Alberni. Felling and bucking trees. Close-up of power saw. Two men cutting down a tree with the power saw. Transporting logs. Loading rail cars (slack line unit). Mess hall. Sky line with lead moving logs. Logs dumped into the sea for sorting. "A modern mill": bull saw, splitters, graders, filing, drying, labelling, shipping. More sawmill footage.

Unedited footage. MacMillan & Bloedel Limited's Franklin River camp, with good shots showing the operation of the logging railway (with steam locomotive), the "poki-gin" (a device for unloading logs from railcars), and a spartree and steam donkey.

Newsreel. Eleven stories from around the world, including three from British Columbia. The eighth story, entitled "Rodeo: Cowboy's Holiday -- Wild and Western," shows bronco and Brahma bull riding at the Cloverdale holiday rodeo. The ninth, "Indian Regatta: West Coast Tribes Vie in War Canoes," shows native Canadians competing in the annual war canoe races at Esquimalt; the Chemainus team wins. The tenth, "End of Era: Timber Festival Marks End of Logging Trains," shows the shutting down of the logging railway at MacMillan & Bloedel's Franklin River operation. The train, pulled by a steam locomotive, is shown loading and dumping logs, and its replacement -- the logging truck -- goes to work.