Maple Sugar (1941)
1941 · Ephemeral film · 13 min · dir. Stanley Hawes
- Short
Synopsis
A narrated examination of old-fashioned maple sugar production in the St. Lawrence Valley. Footage shows local farmers tapping trees and gathering sap in the sugar bush; sleds being pulled variously by dog, horse, and ox; the boiling of sap in cauldrons and the casting of sugar in wooden molds; and a sugaring-off party at which local youths gather to taste the first maple sugar of the season.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Stanley Hawes
- Released
- 1941-02-13
- Running time
- 13 minutes
Cast & crew
Stanley Hawes Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Rich Mapley Mrs Butterworth's · JSBejma · 2012-08-04
Not here. This shows how they fetch and prepare the real thing. In Canada, it's the law! The nostalgic part of this film is the seemingly endless weeks of gloomy cloudiness dampness mud and sometimes heavy snow that is characteristic of March in that part of the continent. I've always wondered though, does tapping all that sap hurt those trees?
★★★ · You taste so good · Spuzz · 2012-05-17
This film about Maple Syrup is slow going for the first half, man puts spigot into Maple Tree, puts bucket under, replaces when full etc. There's a bit of a unsettling image of a kid sucking on a spigot on a tree.. move on. We then get factory shots of them making the different products. We see a woman on a train having a pancake (not several, just one tiny one) and loads of syrup). Then we have a sugar off festival, where the workers I GUESS use up all the sytup left over and boil it then put it on snow for everyone to eat! Also, smack it on some woman! Haw haw! She's a black person now!…