Log driving
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Log driving is a means of moving logs from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe an
Log drivers at Klarälven in Sweden.
A sawmill with floating logs in Kotka, Finland.
Log driver working for the Brown Company in New Hampshire.
River drivers in Germany with a crude pike pole the Germans call a rafters' hook (Flößerhaken, as in rafting logs), probably one or two pickaroons and a ring dog for rolling logs over.
The Lighthouse (2019 film)
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The Lighthouse is a 2019 film directed and produced by Robert Eggers, from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Max Eggers. It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson as turmoiled nineteenth-century
Log driving
…Canadian band Great Big Sea included the song "River Driver" on their album The Hard and the Easy, about a log driver from Newfoundland. In the 2019 film The Lighthouse, one of the main characters, a former timberman, is driven mad by the guilt of allowing his foreman to drown during a log drive in Canada. Holbrook…
Theatrical release poster
Robert Eggers in 2015
The Lighthouse film set, Nova Scotia, Canada (pictured in April 2018)
Screenshot of Wake and Winslow in a drunken argument at night. The filmmakers deployed artificial lighting for both day and nighttime scenes, in this case a single lantern equipped with a halogen bulb.