" THE TWILIGHT FOREST " 1957 UNILEVER INDUSTRIAL FILM TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AFRICA XD12484 скачать в хорошем качестве

" THE TWILIGHT FOREST " 1957 UNILEVER INDUSTRIAL FILM TIMBER INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AFRICA XD12484

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This color educational film is about how the African rain forest is used as a main source of timber for the timber industry. It was made in 1957 and sponsored by Unilever. Opening: native men work in a forest in Western Africa in the twilight land in a world of trees. The men pull a tree forward. Opening titles: Unilever Presents THE TWILIGHT FOREST, An Editorial Film Production (:09-2:20). African Rain Forest. Giant trees towering high above the ground. Natives hack at the trees. Other play and braid each other's hair. Downed trees, uprooted roots. A swath of trees is missing from a forest (2:21-4:23). Smoke stack on a ship, the ship blows its horn and smoke emits. People walk around a town named Sapele, a city in Nigeria. Ships sit in the harbor. A saw mill. A huge tree is cut down and broken down into smaller and smaller pieces of wood in the mill. Men move straight pieces of wood. Insecticides are sprayed on the wood. A man drives a truck and moves timber. Aerial shot of the saw mill (4:24-6:34). Crane loads of timber are moved from ships and from the water. A crane moves timber. Natives hack through the bush with machetes. Map of Africa is shown detailing Sapele in Nigeria, the Ghana Gold Coast and Samreboi in western Ghana.It is explained where the trees were cut and how, with square miles. Native hacks at a tree, calls over another and that tree is looked at and tagged (6:35-10:11). A Native walks through the rain forest and then climbs a tree. A primitive scaffold is set up so that others man climb the tree. A man hits the tree with an ax and attempts to cut it down. The axes hit the tree and multiple men hack at the giant tree. Forest sits quiet. Natives cut through a fallen tree with a giant hand saw. Men back a bulldozer up and hoist the tree with a rope. The tree is then dragged slowly out of the forest. The bulldozer goes through muddy water (10:12-14:04). Men still hack at a tall, very thick tree with axes. Closeups on the axes hitting the wood. The men chop away repeatedly at this massive tree. The tree is starting to move a bit and the men slide down their makeshift scaffolding system and make it to the ground. They watch the tree. it remains very still and hasn't fallen. A solo man climbs back up and begins hacking with an ax. The tree is making mild noise that it may be ready to fall. So, the man continues to hack at it. Finally it is creaking and cracking, the man rushes back to the ground. The tree is falling and it finally cracks and smashes to the ground (14:05-18:16). Natives hack at fallen trees. A bulldozer is brought in and the logs are roped and then hoisted by a crane. Some logs are placed onto a truck. The truck drives out with a heavy load of logs on it. Men push some of the logs into the water. Log by log, the timber is made into a raft to be ferried down river by the men who stand on them (18:17-21:50). The men push off the bottom of the river with long sticks to position themselves and the logs together to create the makeshift raft. Men tie up the logs. Men run across incoming logs. Multiple men create the raft and push off the bottom of the river (21:51-23:40). A watchman makes food on his raft. A diesel tug will then take the log rafts and pull it down the river to Sapele. The tug boat pulls the logs. Men walk nearby on the river banks. Logs drift down the river. Going down the river and passing the trees on the river banks. The diesel tug moves onward (23:41-26:35). End credits (26:36-26:49). Unilever history in Nigeria dates back to 1923 when Robert Hesketh Leverhulme opened a trading post in Nigeria under the business name, Lever Brothers (West Africa) Ltd. The firm was primarily engaged in trading of soap and in 1924, the name was changed to West African Soap Company. Sensing opportunity in the country, the firm opened a soap factory in Apapa in 1925. The company later expanded into the production of food products, it opened a new soap factory in Aba in 1958 and changed its name to Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited in 1955. In 1960, Lever Bros introduced Omo detergent into the market, the new product gained traction among buyers, prompting the firm to commission a factory to manufacture Omo detergents in 1964. In compliance with the indigenization decree of 1972, Unilever became a publicly listed company in 1973, selling 60% of its shares to the Nigerian public. The company became majorly Nigerian owned. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com