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Title: GROWING CONCERN, a

Reference number: 0910

Date: 1955*

Director: d. John Oliver

Sponsor: A. & G. Paterson Limited

Production company: Commercial and Educational Films Limited

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 50.14 mins

Description: Re-afforestation on Deeside, carried out by A & G Paterson, Ltd.

Credits: cam. V. St. Locke
comm. s. James McKechnie
Recording Levers Rich Studio

Shotlist: REEL I
Credits (.40); General shots of trees (1.36); Long shot of men felling a tree by axe (1.50); Felled tree (1.55); Standing tree (2.02); Close-up of Scots Fir and spruce, larch and silver fin (2.35); Cones are collected and dried on wooden trays with wire netting bases. Time-lapse photography enables us to see the cones opening (3.14); The open cones are jostled to cause seeds to be released into trays below (3.31); Shot of seeds cascading into trays (3.45); Seeds are transferred by hand to wooden box (4.02); "Wings" and dust are removed from cones by current of air (4.12); Clean seeds are placed in canister for storing (4.52); At the correct season the seeds are dampened and given a coating of red lead for protection, then allowed to dry (5.21); Outdoors the seeding beds are marked out and sown, the seeds rolled in and covered with sand (6.41); Seedlings are protected by portable frost frames (7.14); Shots around nursery (7.33); Shots of first year plants (7.37); Second year plants (7.52); Plants are weeded out (8.02); Seedlings are lifted for transplanting (8.29); They are placed individually on a planting frame (9.10); Planting frame replants 50 to 60 at a time (10.39); Shots of variety of three year old species of tree (11.08); Four year old trees (12.48); Weeding out continues (12.37); The ground for final planting is fenced off (14.00); Trenches are then cut by overturning sods, the trees are placed in sods and the trenches then serve as drainage channels (14.36); Trees which do not survive the transplanting are replaced (15.06); Even on open hillside, weeds are kept down (15.48); Twelve year old trees (16.10); General shots of twenty year old trees (16.20); Lower branches are removed from the larger trees (16.33); General shots of the forest (16.41)

[REEL II]
No credits. General shots of trees (17.11); Two men fell trees by hand in forest as part of thinning process (18.13); Trees to be felled are marked with an axe to distinguish them (18.21); Shots of more trees being felled (19.29); Fallen trees are trimmed of side branches (19.47); A horse drags the logs through the forest (19.57); Bark is removed from the logs (20.09); Logs are cut into shorter sections and stacked, the mis-shapen pieces being cut for firewood. (21.23); General shots of trees, thinning process again, this time in more mature forest. Larger trees are still cut down by hand. (23.17); Branches are trimmed (23.30); Logs are dragged by horse to forest clearing (24.08); Logs are sawn into shorter lengths (24.30); Logs are "Peeled" (24.52); Prepared logs are taken from the forest by tractor and wagon (25.18); The wagon is unloaded at the forest edge (25.38); Cross-section of cut logs (25.46); Logs are taken by truck to sawmills (26.12); A mobile sawmill in operation, manufacturing fence posts and pit props. Shots of mechanised "Peelers" (30.47); Larger logs arrive at the permanent mill (31.00); Farm gates and feeding troughs are assembled (31.48); Logs are taken direct from the forest to the loading station (32.00); Surface buildings at an unidentified colliery (32.04); General shots of trees (32.15); Fire beaters put out a small, staged fire (33.04); Workers leaving the forest at the end of the day (33.30); ecs (33.33)