Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy raise dust as they speed along a dirt road section of the Lincoln Highway, in Illinois. Scene shifts to soldiers standing around one of their trucks completely overturned in a ditch off a road near Fulton, Illinois. More than two dozen spectators stand above on the road embankment watching as soldiers prepare to rescue the truck. View from the embankment above, of soldiers working around the overturned truck. Next, local people are seen pulling on cable or hawser wrapped around a pulley (unseen) and thence to chain on front of the now upright truck. They move it through grass and shrubs, from the place where it fell. The steel canopy and canvas cover of the truck are flattened. But its engine, chassis, and steering wheel (manned by a driver) appear intact. A crowd watches from the road embankment in background.
On life in the southern mountainous areas. Two American miners emerge from a coal mine in Harlan, Kentucky. The two miners push a mining cart filled with raw coal. The miners wear mining helmets with headlamps. Coal miner poses with coal.
Lumberjacks cut timber with axe and saw near Crossville, Tennessee. Men load logs onto horse drawn wagon. At saw mill, logs are removed from a truck.. Sign on side of the pickup truck reads, "Owen Wilbanks, Crossville" Workers cut, plain, and process wood logs at the mill in Cross Ville. View of finished lumber stacked high.
Life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Men build a house. Man saws a wooden plank. Men try to fit a wood block into the house structure. Young boy looks on. Men nail wood blocks and boards on to the roof.
People on porch of a community house in Wooten, Kentucky, built of stone and heavy beams. A child rides a tricycle in front of the house. A woman reads from a book. Woman sings and plays dulcimer instrument.
'The home of wild things' is a production that studies wildlife along with nature and the destruction caused due to lumber cutting activities. Two bears playing near a tree. A bear climbing in a tree. A herd of elk and some deer seen in woods in a forest. View of the house of a fur trapper. The man with his furs and pelts hanging outside the simple cabin home, sits nearby at work. View of forest and river. A car parked in a ditch below a massive tree (shot is dark.) Group of uniformed Boy Scouts in a troop setup camp in a forest. People swimming in a swimming pool in a wooded setting, with trees all around the outdoor pool area. One young man walks on his hands in the foreground, beside the pool. Men in logging industry cut down trees in forest with a two man saw. A freshly cut tree falls to the ground. View of land with cut tree trunks.
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