[Lookout towers, Menzies and Elk Falls]
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Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots
[Lookout towers, Menzies and Elk Falls]
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots
[British Columbia Forest Service activities : road marking, snag falling, etc.]
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots. Sequences showing crews painting road markings and falling snags on hillside. Also include footage of data computing, radio communication, parachute drop, Ranger School, construction of Okanagan Lake Park, planting at Duncan Forest Nursery, and a helicopter transporting a load of lumber to the location of a fire lookout station.
Part of Forest Service films
Training film. Describes the training and duties of a Forest Service lookout man, and explains the assembly and use of the fire-finder.
Part of Forest Service films
Documentary. The sequence of action which takes place in spotting and reporting a forest fire, as seen from the viewpoint of a fire spotter on a mountaintop near the Cowichan Valley.
[Scenery (North Vancouver, Fraser Valley, etc) ; railway shots]
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots. Sternwheeler arriving at dock. Views from Stamp lookout, and from the Grouse Mountain gondola lift. Lumber trucks on freeway. Fraser River and rapids. CPR and CNR freight trains travelling along the Thompson River. Aerials views of islands, coastline, beaches, etc., near Tofino.
[Aircraft fighting and spotting fires]
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots. Footage includes: lookout man spotting fires; views from patrol plane checking fire location; aerial views of Lillooet-Pavilion area, Fraser River, Adams Lake; bird-dog plane and Avenger airtankers over fire; scens at Kamloops tanker base (dispatcher at work, air crew playing baseball, then rushing to get aircraft airborne); more shots of tanker over fire.
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots. Shots in and from a bird-dog plane showing forest fire and airtankers making drops. At tanker base, crew mixing fire retardent. Air crew, ranger and dispatcher at [Kamloops?] base. Suppression crew loading truck and driving through forest. Fire lookout observing smoke. Many shots of telephone and radio use. Shot in and from fire patrol plane. More airtanker drops. Extensive footage of ground crew, caterpillar tracks, trucks and other equipment fighting fire.
[Sayward Forest : recreation, etc.]
Part of Forest Service films
Stock shots. Extensive footage of the Sayward Forest, primarily showing outdoor recreation activities -- boating (power, sail and canoe), camping, sport fishing, picnicking, swimming, sunbathing, water skiing, etc. -- on the lakes, streams and rivers of the area. Also includes sequences on the Elk Falls and Menzie lookout towers; forest inventory crews at work near Frog Lake and Elk Falls; Campbell River Forest Nursery; a tugboat pulling a log barge in Johnstone Strait; Campbell River Ranger Station; Elk Falls Park; neat and messy camp sites.