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634.9-634.92 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE STRENGTH OF THE HILLS — Continued his woodlands to keep them on a profitable basis. Well photographed. An excellent subject for conservation, fire prevention and civics." California "A good film. . . "Very good as an Introduction to the subject of conservation." Col laborator THERE'S MORE THAN TIMBER IN TREES. Castle 1942 33min sd color $175.28 634.9 Jh-8h-c A USDA film. May be borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service In this color film an old lumberjack carries you back to the "hell roaring nineties," and takes you through the cutting of the virgin forests in New England, the Lake States, the South, and finally winds up in the Pacific Northwest. The effects of forestcutting practices on labor, the need for a nation-wide forest program to stop destruction of the resource, to keep forests producing, and to furnish more permanent jobs, better and more permanent communities are shown TIMBER GROWING TODAY. TVAForestryDiv 1947 15mln sd color $75, loan 634.9 Jh-sh-c forum Produced by Southern Educational Film Production Service Shows that sustained-yield management of forests is economically sound and that forest owners in the Tennessee valley are beginning to adopt the timber growing idea TOMORROW'S TIMBER. CanNFB 1945 18min sd color $1.50, rent $5 634.9 p-el-Jh-sh-c-tr-ad Canada has always been a forest land. Three million tons of timber are exported annually. Latest scientific developments show how timber makes rayons and plastics, how It builds planes and houses, how it means wages. Forests, with their rivers and streams, give health to local agriculture and provide hydroelectric power system TREE OF LIFE. Castle 1938 19min sd $25.69 634.9 el-Jh-sh-c A USDA film. May be borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service "Portrayal of how the forestry resources of the United States have been depleted to the extent that regulated cutting is now necessary on both public and private timber land. Animated grraphs comparing early population and forest stands to those of the present. Illustrations of how unregulated and complete stripping of forest land leaves ghost towns and floods in its wake. Methods of conservation: National Forests produce permanent supply by means of selected cutting; fire protection by lookout towers. Indications of the need for selected cutting on private lands." California TREES FOR TOMORROW. Castle 18mln sd loan 634.9 el-Jh-sh-ad Sponsored by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Demonstrates that trees are a crop and that forest management is insurance for the future TREES TO TAME THE WIND. Castle 1940 12min sd $16.76 634.9 sh-tr-ad A USDA film. May be borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service A presentation of the Forest service. We are Introduced to Casey and his young son as they sit forlornly contemplating their barren land. We are given to understand that wind and drought have wrought this havoc and Casey is unable to think of a plan to reclaim his land A Forest Service official arrives and convinces Casey that he should plant windbreaks. Here is a map of the U.S. locating forest projects is shown. We are shown how people blown about a city street seek shelter close to buildings. In a laboratory a man demonstrates with a small model, an electric fan and a pinwheel that a planting can protect the ground Casey gives it a try. Sturdy seedlings from forest nurseries are planted and carefully cultivated. This shelter belt develops so satisfactorily that others are planted. By the time the first belt is five years old some of the trees can be cut to permit others to grow better. These provide good fence posts. The eflflciency of the belts is shown and also how they may be used for family picnics. We see the Improvement in the soil and the crops WOODS AND A WAY. GaAgExt 1944 2Smin sd color loan 634.9 Jh-sh-c-tr-ad Produced in cooperation with the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association Young farmer in need of money learns how to get some from his wood When his small son is injured the county agent shows him how to cut and manage his woodlot to supply money for the child's care and operations as well as living expenses 634.92 Forest fires FIRE WEATHER. USWeatherBur 1937? 20mln sd loan 634.92 el-Jh-sh-ad Produced by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Dealing with forest fire control in western national parks, this film illustrates the Weather bureau's cooperation with fire fighters by giving advance warnings of critical weather conditions and by furnishing continuous reports of wind directions and velocities, atmospheric humidity and other factors contributory to the spread of going fires FIREMEN OF THE FORESTS. WisStConsv Dpt 1937 45min si loan 634.92 jh-sh-ad "Demonstrates the causes of forest fires and the methods of prevention employed in Wisconsin." Nat directory of safety films ONE MATCH CAN DO IT. Simmel 1945 lOmin sd $49 634.92 el-Jh-sh-ad Produced by Guy D. Haselton Using a carelessly discarded match as smybolic of the thoughtlessness which annually causes millions of dollars in property damage and loss of life from such fires, this film shows how forest and brush fires start, and how they can be prevented The latest scientific methods of sighting, locating and reporting mountain fires with special instruments are depicted. Various types of apparatus used in combating fires of this nature are shown in action The climax of the picture is a big fire, with scenes of men ajid equipment battling the flames, homes burning, wild animals in flight and the resultant devastation left in the path of the fire These scenes are of an actual brush fire that occurred largely within the corporate limits of Los Angeles. They were made with the cooperation, and under the technical supervision, of the Los Angeles Fire Department Flood, the aftermath of fire through destruction of the watershed, claims its due, and a number of flood scenes illustrate this part of the picture THEN IT HAPPENED. Castle 1948 llmin sd color $52.83 634.92 el-Jh-sh-ad-forum Produced by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. May also be borrowed from the regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service and state foresters 486