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Video: Your Life Work - Forestry and Forest Industries

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By Steve Nix, About.com

The Bottom Line

A free downloadable (and streamable) black and white movie of forestry and how the forest products industry operated just after World War II. It is a classic period piece promoting forest management and the value of foresters and forestry. Run time is 10:17

Pros

  • Entertaining historic movie of wildfire, sawmilling, nurseries, logging.
  • Excellent descriptions of processing war-era forest products.

Cons

  • Everything in this movie is outdated; to be used for historical reference only.

Description

  • Downloadable (and streamable) black and white movie of forestry just after World War II.
  • Classic period piece promoting forest management and shown in vocational schools throughout the U.S.
  • Should be used for historical reference only. Movie provided by Internet Archive.

Guide Review - Video: Your Life Work - Forestry and Forest Industries

This movie was a production of Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. 1946 and Your Life Work Series. The manuscript was prepared by Arthur Twogood and reviewed by the Vocational Education Department of Iowa State College.
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