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The Timber Getters
Title:
The Timber Getters
NFSA ID
14222
Year
1949
In postwar Australia, the milling of our nation’s prized hardwood timbers was a rapidly growing industry.
Mechanisation introduced economies in the handling, but the skill and stamina of the axe workers were still indispensable in timber getting.
Axe workers established camps throughout the eucalypt forests in the early 20th century. They harevsted giant trees for the rapidly growing hardwood industry.
The Timber Getters was a National Film Board Production, produced by the Department of the Interior.
Production company
National Film Board Production
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.