A forest in the United States. Aerial view of the forest. A man seated in a Ford car drives it across fields and in the forest along a dirt road. A forest fire (possibly intentionally set to clear an area). Smoke columns rise. Cables placed around a stump and another tree and the stump and tree are pulled out of the ground. Lumber workmen cut off the roots of trees.
Japanese women in kimonos viewing Sakura cherry blossom trees in full bloom. Japanese loggers felling a tree. Logs readied for transport to sawmills. Japanese men pushing backwards to move a load of finished wood on a dolly. Men cutting wood for sandals in a factory. Animated map illustrating three forest regions of Japan. View of column of men walking in forest of the subtropical zone, containing oak, camphor, bamboo, and palm trees. Views of temperate zone forests containing pine, cypress, arborvitae, cedar, fir, beech, ash, chestnut, and poplar trees. The arboreal area contains coniferous forests of fir and spruce. Japanese officials in dress clothing initiate a reforestation project, as other officials and Japanese military officers watch. Women and children participate in the project. Cross-section of a cut tree illustrating products derived therefrom. Animation depicts various uses of produces wood products like sandals, houses, barracks, and military uniform for the Japanese.
United States Army Infantry moves up from Osterode to St. Andreasberg in Germany during World War II. United States M4 Sherman tanks move off the road at forests to bypass the roadblock. Several infantry soldiers walk in the forests and several seated in Jeeps. A soldier attempts to install a device on a tree. Blasted tree stumps in the forest. Tanks and Jeeps move through the forest area.
A Ford motor company advertisement in technicolor for the new, quiet engineered 1939 Ford automobile. A panoramic view of a forest. Deer in the forest. A man takes photographs of companions, a man and two women in the forest. Their 1939 Ford car parked in the background. They all get in the car and drive away on a road in the forest.
' Up in flames' about the history of fire fighting forests. Men cut tree in a forest in United States. Forests being burned to clear away the land for farming. A massive forest fire storm is shown. Smoke rises from the remains after the fire. Men clearing the land. Cleared up piece of land.
Scenes of early Forest Ranger activities to fight forest fires. A circa 1910 photo of Fire Warden standing on observation post at top of extremely tall tree. A flag flies at the observation post. A tree House observation post on the top of a tall bare tree. A "wooden skyscraper"lookout tower. A fire warden and his family pose in front of their house at the base of a lookout tower in Arkansas. Lookout house built on a high peak in Willamette National Forest, Oregon. A tall steel tower lookout in the Suwanee forest, Georgia. A Ranger at an early lookout point, equipped only with a map and compass. Fire warden sights through a W.B. Osborne's fire finder and makes a telephone call. Observations from two ranger stations being plotted on a map and the intersecting lines give the exact location of area under fire.