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This black & white educational film is about how paper is made starting with trees in the forest to its finishing process. Copyright is 1941 by Coronet Productions.

Titles: Paper Making (:07-:33). Title: Winter Logging in Northern United States. Forest with snow. Tall pine trees abound. Northern Michigan. Men eat breakfast. A man trudges through the snow with a saw and hammer. A bulldozer carries a man into the forest. A man hacks at a tree with an ax. Snow falls from a tree as another man cuts a tree. A light snowfall continues to fall. A man cuts a tree and it topples over. He cuts through it with a saw. Men gather the wood and put it onto a lift that is dragged by a bulldozer (:34-3:16). The logs are loaded onto trucks. A truck drives off with lots of logs piled onto it. Men move logs off the truck (3:17-4:10). Title: Pulpwood from Canada. Spruce forest of Ontario, Canada. Men loosen logs in shallow rapids. The logs must go over a small fall to continue down river. Logs are drawn together in Lake Superior. They are then gathered and loaded in a giant steel barge by a mechanical conveyor belt. The logs are packed in the hold. The barge moves along the river. A crane helps remove logs. Railway cars are then loaded. A paper mill is next to a water supply. A wood yard houses the wood. Wood is measured and then craned into the yard for future use (4:11-7:12). Logs are taken by rail cars to a paper mill. Wood is dumped onto a conveyer belt as it heads for the wood room. Wood is sawed and then separated and tumbled. Men grab some logs and give them finishing touches in a knotter saw. Sticks are separated (7:13-8:19). Title: Wood Pulp by the Sulphite Process. Wood is cut into chips. Chips sent by conveyor belts to a digester. The digester machine takes the wood chips. An animated diagram explains and shows how the digester works. The digester spits some into the blowpit. Cooking liquor is drained off. What happens in the blowpit is shown and explained in diagram. Pulp is sent to a series of screens which rejects coarse chips (8:20-10:54). The thickener is next. Accepted stock is show and explained in a machine with a diagram. The process of getting the pulp to paper is explained. A man uses a press roll to make paper (10:55-12:35). Title: Wood Pulp by the Groundwood Process. In the wood room, the logs to be used for ground pulp are conveyed to the storage room after sorting. A grinding machine. A man piles logs. A man take a screening of ground pulp. An empty beater is shown to explain how a beater works. A beater cuts and hydrates the fibers. A pail is emptied. A man puts sulphite into liquid. Large paper machines (12:36-15:13). As water goes through a screen, paper making solids are sent into sheet form. A press machine. Water is removed. Sheets of paper on an endless canvass. Coating materials are added. A man turns on a machine. Paper is pressed in between steel rollers. Paper is tested.Paper's coating is tested as well. Folding is also tested.Paper on rollers. A blade cuts raw paper to single sheets of a certain size. Paper is inspected by hand by women workers (15:14-18:08). Sheets are packed in cases, labeled and marked. Some paper is wrapped and placed in rolls. Large rolls usually have paper for magazines. Rolls of paper are packed into a truck. A forklift takes a roll of wrapped paper. The roll is placed into storage. A newspaper printing press. paper is cut into sections (18:09-19:48). Magazine pages. Binding machine. Conveyor belt moves the magazine and a blade trims any rough edges. A woman sits reading a magazine. A boy reads a book (19:49-20:48).

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