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13169_10689_scrap_material_industry1

1950s
B&W

Industry on Parade Compilation #30. Educational film about the industries that salvage, reuse and recycle materials. Title "Waste Not, Want Not." Several views of burnt out forest near Tillamook, Oregon. Crane loading charred timber onto truck. Long shot of lumber mill; logs rolling into pond at mill; burnt logs moving up conveyor; large saw trims a burnt log; smaller pieces of wood move down conveyor, men sorting them; shot of wood turned into chips; man reaches into machine and samples wood pieces; tiny would pieces formed into boards move down conveyor, dried by rollers, cut into sections; the finished "hard board" emerges from machine and set in a stack by worker.