This industrial film features scenes from the logging and lumber industries in the 1950s. Workers saw trees and mill logs, demonstrating the entire process of turning a tree into lumber. The mill shown in the video is most likely Temple Lumber Company in Pineland, Texas. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.

Sabine County Pineland

TFC industrial film industrial films Pineland Pineland, TX Pineland, Texas Sabine County Sabine County, Texas Sabine County, TX 1950s

1950’s Brazoria County Historical Museum mark marks marking tree trees saw saws sawing

timber lumber log logs logging logger loggers limb limbs limbing

buck bucks bucking bark debark debarks debarking mill mills milling

wood truck trucks trucking conveyor conveyor belt conveyors conveyor belts machine machines

machinery Temple Lumber Company worker workers laborer laborer man men