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Title: TREE IS PLANTED, a

Reference number: 3091

Date: 1957

Sponsor: Films of Scotland and the Forestry Commission

Production company: Campbell Harper Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9 mins

Description: A look at the work of the Forestry Commission.

Shotlist: credits (.15) visuals bleak hillsides (.44) l/s farmhouses surrounded by protective trees and visuals bare hills showing reduced forestry (1.33) foresters measuring trees, tending seedlings in nursery, preparing and draining ground, clearing bracken, pruning and selecting and marking young trees to be cut down, felling trees (4.26) shot of horse pulling felled trees through forest (4.34) timber being sawn (4.44) brief shot miner hammering in pit prop (4.49) cabinet maker at work (4.54) brief shot boatbuilder (4.59) young boy using fretwork saw (5.04) forestry students walking on road past sign for Forestry Commission's Glentress Forest School (5.27) forester outside his house and forester looking at young tree (5.45) shots of trees (6.47) shots of salmon leaping (6.53) shots of trees (9.02)