The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men keep them headed with the flow of the water toward the lake on which the mill is located. The activities of approximately a dozen men were photographed.
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United States 18 June 1906
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Cutting 3 Acres clearing for food plot.
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06 September 1906
Despite the lurid title, no one gets shot in this long actuality from Lubin. Instead, it's another panorama, as indicated in the movie's alternative title, of the devastation wrought on San Francisco by the Earthquake and subsequent fire.
18 May 1906
This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake.
30 April 1906
Film showing the results of an earthquake in San Francisco on 18th April 1906 which caused great destruction.
06 September 1906
This Lubin actuality of the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake begins with a group of men, pans to the left, and the people vanish, leaving only the shattered landscape.
23 October 1906
The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife.
06 September 1906
A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze.
06 March 1906
A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.
15 February 1906
The short clip shows a spiritualist séance featuring a medium and two ‘spirits’, shot in Peter Elfelt’s studio.
06 September 1906
Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.
19 September 1906
The documentary features the oldest footage ever taken of surfing, and it was shot in Hawaii by Robert Bonine.
25 August 1906
Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack.
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