Daddy Longlegs (1929)

“This isn’t the fellow who is known as the Cranefly, but a mechanical friend of the lumbermen - A Tractor is his assistant.“ M/S of a large tractor, it is driven past the camera. The tractor is pulling fir trees behind it. Low angle shot of a man tying a rope to the trunk of a tree. On the ground the tractor is driven past the camera, the rope is attached to the tractor and it pulls down the tree. The tree is uprooted. M/S of the tractor. “When the trees are pulled down daddy longlegs gets on the move.“ C/U of the tractor as it moves through the forest towing a large tree trunk. Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 606. Note: this can was previously known as EP253B. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical co