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Devastation

A plea for the planting of trees throughout Australia.
Year : 1951 | Total Duration : 6 Minutes |
VS of arid earth with dead tree stumps. VS vast stretches of once-forested barren land, barbed wire. GS forest trees.
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Access No. 44124 | 41 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS forestry. Pair of men felling huge tree with axes and men in singlets sawing huge felled trunk. VS milling of log on electric saw.
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Access No. 128586 | 20 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS bushfire and man silhouetted in forground trying to beat fire out with tree branch. CU flames. WS pan of blackened burnt out tree trunks and stumps.
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Access No. 128587 | 28 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS loggers removing felled trees from forest. GS older man sitting on log as it is hauled uphill by ropes. Imported timber being offloaded from ship into sea. VS timber on ship and logjam on water.
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Access No. 128588 | 46 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS barren eroded land. CU to man sifting dirt through hand and demonstrating problems with various forms of erosion. VS tree foliage and leaves on ground.
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Access No. 128589 | 33 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS stream running through grass. Water cascading over rocks down hillside. WS flooded river with tree tops visible. Aerial view over large flooded town. MS flood waters lapping around roofs of buildings.
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Access No. 128590 | 31 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS aerial over dense forest canopy and WS of barren eroded ground. Tilt from rows on ground to forest plantation.
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Access No. 128591 | 19 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS large group of people, shovels in hands, ready to plant seedlings. CUs boys putting seedlings into holes in ground. GS car down tree-lined street.
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Access No. 128592 | 26 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
GS house surrounded by trees and shrubs. WS people walking through forest. High angle shot of cars along road through forest. WS pan of forest with hills in background. MS felled tree falling into forest.
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Access No. 128593 | 30 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
National Film and Sound Archive - Australia