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.

Industrial film. The life and work of the modern logger is contrasted with the rough-and-tumble era of 40 years earlier. The latter is evoked through effective narration, archival photographs, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Forest Museum (including extensive footage of a steam locomotive on a logging railway, plus shots of a logging crummy and of a steam donkey yarding logs). In the modern sequences, loggers are shown falling a tree and setting chokers; faller Nick Semchuck [?] leaves his Port Alberni home and travels by crummy to the work site, where he falls, measures and bucks a tree; and logs are loaded onto a truck and followed along a logging road to Kelsey Bay to be dumped into the ocean. There is also excellent "mood" footage of derelict logging camps, bunkhouses, steam donkeys and equipment, and an abandoned village.

Industrial film. The life and work of the modern logger is contrasted with the rough-and-tumble era of 40 years earlier. The latter is evoked through effective narration, archival photographs, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Forest Museum (including extensive footage of a steam locomotive on a logging railway, plus shots of a logging crummy and of a steam donkey yarding logs). In the modern sequences, loggers are shown falling a tree and setting chokers; faller Nick Semchuck [?] leaves his Port Alberni home and travels by crummy to the work site, where he falls, measures and bucks a tree; and logs are loaded onto a truck and followed along a logging road to Kelsey Bay to be dumped into the ocean. There is also excellent "mood" footage of derelict logging camps, bunkhouses, steam donkeys and equipment, and an abandoned village.