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Title |
The Shannon County Film Digitization Project -- Camera Roll 183 |
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Subject |
Tie hacks; Railroads |
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Creator |
Moore, Robert |
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Contributors |
Flanders, Robert; Espar, David; Longstreth, Stephen; Terrill, Estil |
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Date.Original |
1978-11-14 |
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Date.Digital |
2006 |
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Source |
Part of the raw footage recorded in 1978-1979 for 1981 documentary motion pictures: Shannon County : Home ; Shannon County : Hearts of the Children. Located in Special Collections, Meyer Library, Missouri State University http://www.library.missouristate.edu/archives/index.htm |
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Rights |
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Digitization Specifications |
video/x-ms-wmv; Windows Media video file format; 320x240 pixels, 275 kbits/sec total, Video stream: 250 kbits/sec., Audio stream: 16 kbps 16kHz stereo. Compressed using Windows Media 9 encoder. |
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Description |
Second of three camera rolls (182, 183, 184) containing shots of Estil Terrill hacking a railroad tie from an oak log using an axe and broadaxe. From the 1890's through the early 1930's, Shannon County's oak forests provided timber and railroad ties for the nation's expanding railroads. The tie industry brought the first steady flow of cash into the county's economy and tie hacking became a major source of income for many Shannon County families. At the beginning of the boom, the going rate for a "stick" as tie hackers called them, was five cents. A good tie hacker might hack eighteen or twenty in a day. By the late twenties, when good oak started to become scarce, a tie could bring as much as $1.50. Several camera rolls in this collection contain information or stories related to tie hacking. The tie hacking shown here took a little over an hour. |
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Table of Contents |
1. Hewing second side of tie with broadaxe -- 2. Tuning tie and notching third side -- 3. Slow motion shots of hewing, close-ups of Estil (no audio) -- 4. Slow motion of hewing, wide (no audio) -- 5. Hewing side three, low angle from end (4 shots) -- 6. Hewing from distance, long shot, wide -- 7. Hands on axe handle (close-up) -- 8. Notching fourth side (3 shots) -- 9. Hewing last side of tie, low angle from end (3 shots) -- 10. Hewing last side, close-up from side (3 shots) -- 11. Slow motion, measuring tie width with axe handle, hewing (no audio) -- 12. Estil makes scoring mark, measures width, and finishes hewing -- 13. Planing edges with axe -- 14. The finished tie (3 shots). |
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Type |
moving image |
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Extent |
1 streaming video segment (11 min., 16 sec.), color, sound. |
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Format |
WMV |
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Publisher |
MSU Digital Archives Initiative |
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Identifier |
http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/archives/shannon/cr183 |
