David A. James film and audio collection, 1923-1981

Scenes include logging, hauling timber, lumber mill activity, City of Shelton, and film storyboards.

Scenes with author Stewart Holbrook, author of books about the timber industry and railroads, talking about the Schafer Logging Company. Images of the covers of books written by Holbrook. Some scenes with sound and others silent.

Views of mill activity, rigging, logging, a brief interview with Mrs. Schafer of the Schafer Logging Company, film storyboards, hay harvesting and baling, and office scenes. Includes scenes from an unidentified film project.

Opens with fragment of an unidentified documentary about rail transport. Black and white footage includes helicopter landing and passenger pickup. Scenes from Simpson Research Center presentations and a Simpson Timber Asia Trade Show from the 1960s.

Black and white footage of Simpson executives and wives at banquet, aerial shots from Simpson plane. Color footage includes scenes with employees from late 1960s or early 1970s.

Excerpts contain footage from interviews with Simpson employees, including public relations director Dave James, as well as managers Bud Pune?, Oscar Levine, and Max Schmidt Jr. Logging demonstrations and interview with forester Hap Johnson. Musical performances by Ken Barry, Jimmy Carroll, and Jan Davis.

Excerpts contain footage of interviews with Simpson employees including manager Max Schmidt Jr., demonstrations of logging practices, musical performances by Billy Strange and Stan Newman, and contemporary advertisements.

Excerpts contain footage of logging demonstrations including a speed climbing contest and log rolling competition. Interview with Simpson manager Oscar Levine about seedlings and forest management. Musical performance by Billy Strange. Contemporary advertisements including Baker's Angel Flake Coconut.

Hap Johnson, world champion tree topper, demonstrates logging skills by cutting, climbing, and topping spar tree for the television program, You Asked for It. Filmed at Simpson Logging Company's sustained yield tree farm at Shelton, Washington. Includes advertisements for Skippy peanut butter.

Hap Johnson, world champion tree topper, demonstrates logging skills for the television program, You Asked for It. Filmed at Simpson Logging Company's sustained yield tree farm at Shelton, Washington. This film contains scenes from Reel 14 (T29).

Hap Johnson performs tree climbing demonstration. A group of men and women exit a building, men operate mill machinery, a man interviews mill workers. Three men read the book Green Power by James Stevens. Forest Festival parade, two men planting seedlings.

Simpson Timber Company newsreel filmed by Jim Hartley and David James. The segments "New Log Lifter at Eureka Ply" and "Wrapping Stops Yapping" include scenes of a log lifter and redwood plywood manufacture at the Simpson Plywood Mill in Eureka, California. "Birthday for Annie & Mary" is about a new railroad track opening at Arcata and Mad River in California. "Happy Day at Idanha" shows Harry Spencer working at the Idanha veneer plant in central Oregon. "Simpson at the Dealer Shows" is a color segment about Simpson exhibits at a Dallas lumber dealer convention. This segment includes "Miss Virgin Timber" christening a new 18-foot Simpson Shelton Products Cruiser with Simpson Timber Company employees Orr Shelton and Bill Plunkett. "Birthday for Annie & Mary," "Happy Day at Idanha," and "Simpson at the Dealer Shows" are also on Reel 18 (T25).

Simpson Timber Company newsreel filmed by Jim Hartley and Dave James. The segment "Disaster at Klamath" reports on a 1,000 year flood on the Klamath River in California. Shows destructive logjams along the Klamath including Crescent City harbor, resulting in flooding and the use of alternative transport of lumber and supplies by air. "Redwood Grove Dedication" shows American Forestry Association President Edward Stamm speaking at the Simpson Reed Grove dedication in Redwood State Park, California, in honor of Simpson Reed & Company owners Sol Simpson and Mark Reed. "Birthday for Annie & Mary" shows the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a route change of the Arcata and Mad River Railroad in response to California State Highway system construction. "New Spars for Old Ironsides" shows a spar tree harvest to replace the mast of the ship, Old Ironsides . "Happy Day at Idanha" shows the Idanha veneer plant in central Oregon. "End of the Old Mill" shows buildings of the first Simpson sawmill in Shelton, Washington, pre-demolition. "Who Torpedoed the Whistle Punk?" shows the Whistle Punk, a 3-ton lumber torpedo, hauling logs up the mountainside. "Simpson at the Dealer Shows" is a color segment about Simpson exhibits at a Dallas lumber dealer convention. The footage includes "Miss Virgin Timber" christening a new 18-foot Simpson Shelton Products Cruiser with Simpson Logging Company employees Orr Shelton and Bill Plunkett. "Birthday for Annie & Mary," "Happy Day at Idanha," and "Simpson at the Dealer Shows" are also on Reel 17 (T24).

Simpson Timber Company newsreel filmed by Jim Hartley and Dave James. "Others See Us" shows teachers from Mason County Public Schools on an educational day trip to Camp Grisdale, a Simpson logging village. Also in this segment, wives of Klamath Veneer Plant employees take a tour of the plant. "Northward to Hudson Bay" shows aerial views of Hudson Bay, Hudson Bay logging road construction, and Northern Spruce inspection. Canadian First Nations' men log for Simpson Timber Company to the north of Hudson Bay. Cabins made of particle board serve as accommodations for First Nations loggers. Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher attends mill dedication. Mill dedication dinner in Hudson Bay Legion Hall. "Year of the Tree Farms" shows Bill Looney explaining the tree farm system to Forest Festival queens, who then plant saplings. "Switch to Dry Lumber " shows dry lumber manufacturing, kiln operations drying Western Hemlock and Douglas Fir wood, and operation of mill equipment. "How Redwoods Grow" shows the Redwood Demonstration Forest in Humboldt County, California, with various speakers and a tour. "Mad River Plywood" shows aerial views of the Mad River plywood plant in Arcata, California, operation of mill lathes, and men working on the line stacking plywood. "New Plants Rising" shows construction of a new pulp mill in Fairhaven, California, including aerial views.