Editing From Stump to Ship

{{Short description|1930 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = From Stump to Ship
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| director       = [[Alfred K. Ames]], Howard Kane
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| distributor    = Northeast Historic Film
| released       = {{Film date|1930}}
| runtime        = 30 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
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'''''From Stump to Ship''''' is an amateur industrial film by [[Alfred K. Ames]], former State Senator and owner of the Machias Lumber Company, in [[Machias, Maine]] as well as by Dr. Howard Kane of Washington, DC.<ref>{{cite journal
|title= From forgotten film to a film archive: the curious history of From Stump to Ship
|author= Janna Jones, Ph.D.
|journal= Film History: An International Journal
|year= 2003
|volume= 15
|number= 2
|pages= 193–202
|doi=10.2979/fil.2003.15.2.193
}}</ref>

==Summary==
The half-hour 16mm film was shot over the winter of 1930 in the logging woods and shows logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, then moves to the spring log drive, with [[lumberjack|logger]]s using [[peavey (tool)|peavey]]s to break up [[log jam]]s on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Detailed views of mill work, changing the bandsaw, and making shingles.

==Production==
Lumber is loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York. The film was originally silent, with a typed script which Ames read aloud when he showed the film. In 1985, with funds from the [[Maine Humanities Council]], the narration was recorded with the film.<ref>
{{Cite journal
|title= Confronting the Past in the Archival Film and the Contemporary Documentary 
|author= Janna Jones, Ph.D.
|journal= The Moving Image 
|volume= 4
|number= 2
|date=Fall 2004
|pages= x-21
|doi=10.1353/mov.2004.0029
|s2cid= 194078462
}}</ref>

The film was distributed by [[Northeast Historic Film]], in [[Bucksport, Maine]]. Footage was included in the compilation documentary ''Woodsmen and River Drivers, Another Day, Another Era''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oldfilm.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16&products_id=59 |title=Woodsmen and River Drivers - $19.95 : Northeast Historic Film, Online Store |website=Oldfilm.org |access-date=July 20, 2016 |archive-date=September 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915015004/http://oldfilm.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16&products_id=59 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which also interviewed the surviving woodsmen of the Machias Lumber Company.

==Legacy==
In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>
{{cite web
|url= https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2002/02-176.html
|date=December 17, 2002
|access-date= September 1, 2012
|title= Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry
|publisher= Library of Congress 
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=June 16, 2020|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*''From Stump to Ship'' essay by Karan Sheldon at [[National Film Registry]][https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/stump_ship.pdf]
*''From Stump to Ship'' essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 175-176 [https://books.google.com/books?id=deq3xI8OmCkC&source=gbs_similarbooks]
*[http://oldfilm.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=42 ''From Stump to Ship''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908202412/http://oldfilm.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=42 |date=September 8, 2017 }} from the distributor, Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine.
* [http://oldfilm.org/content/stump-ship "From Stump to Ship: Forgotten Film to the Formation of a Film Archives"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908202421/http://oldfilm.org/content/stump-ship |date=September 8, 2017 }}
* {{IMDb title|0347027}}

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[[Category:1930 films]]
[[Category:American short documentary films]]
[[Category:United States National Film Registry films]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1930 short documentary films]]
[[Category:Documentary films about Maine]]
[[Category:Black-and-white documentary films]]
[[Category:Sponsored films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Maine]]
[[Category:Logging in the United States]]
[[Category:Machias, Maine]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:1930s American films]]
[[Category:English-language documentary films]]