twelve mile road is a 2003 drama film based on the new york times best selling book mystery ride by robert boswell .

the film was directed and written for teleplay by richard friedenberg .

the story is set in idaho and follows the challenging relationship between a daughter and her estranged father as they reunite and attempt to work out their complicated family issues .

twelve mile road is a made-for-television film starring tom selleck that debuted on cbs in 2003 .

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twelve mile road <EOT> there are no critic reviews yet for twelve mile road . keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !

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in the " 12 mile road , " selleck plays stephen landis , a happy man on the surface with unresolved regrets underneath whose loving girlfriend , leah ( anna gunn ) , and her teenage daughter roxanne ( tegan moss ) , have recently moved in with him .

selleck says he was approached with the script for " 12 mile road " several years ago , which he loved . but the movie was never shot . five years later , his agent approached the actor with the opportunity to work on the film . selleck explains he immediately wanted to star in the film .

george wilson owned two hundred acres of land along the twelve - mile straight road in 1930 ' s cotton county , georgia . additionally , he owned the cotton mill . the jesups were the principal sharecropping family since the turn of the century . juke jesup ' s daughter elma and negro maid nan lived with juke in a house provided by george wilson while negro pickers like genus jackson lived in windowless shacks . elma jesup and nan grew up together and worked side by side in the cotton and cornfields . upon the

during the great depression life is hard in cotton county , georgia . in 1930 two babies are born ; one light - skinned and the other dark . they are passed off as twins . on the day they are born genus jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck along the twelve–mile straight , the road leading to the nearby town . the family is soon being torn apart by the dark secrets they all share . set in the dark days of the depression , this epic story tells of great suffering in the small world of georgia as the in

parents need to know that twelve mile road is a melodrama with mature themes about a troubled teenage girl ' s summer stay with her divorced father on his farm . it features teen pregnancy , an abortion discussion , the death of a newborn baby , animal cruelty , some profanity ( including " bitch " and " ass " ) , and a farm animal death though the message is ultimately a story about how a broken family heals itself over the years after a divorce , there are some clear pro - life , christian messages and heavy themes best for older kids .

florence , georgia , cotton county , the twelve mile straight road in 1930 ' s , depressed times on a farm . lynching and racism that makes you sick , women abused , deception and lies and secrets , some genuinely evil people . in the midst of it all a " colored " and a white baby are born . they called them gemini twins , and they wanted you to believe they were born of the same mother at the same time but of two fathers and because of that lie a man is lynched . up front i have to say this is dark , grueso

now i got to see that exact scene in person . steamboat springs didn’t have much beyond that single main road , really . we enjoyed the one day we spent there . i imagined it had a lot more to offer during skiing season .

things to consider : snow - covered mountains ; a broad , flat valley ; width of the road ; the type of cars ; the man’s style of clothing ; his stance and physique ; buildings in the background and their awnings ; stoplights and street light .

i always need at least one extra article to collect all the odds and ends that don’t fit anywhere else . generally those involve locations or topics that might be a little off center or peculiar . in other words , they certainly fit the definition of things needing a twelve mile circle visit , and maybe even worthy of a detour . they might not appeal to everyone although i bet at least one or two would sound interesting to most readers .

i would like to thank harper collins / ecco and eleanor henderson for the advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review . 1930 cotton county , georgia and a young elma jesup finds herself pregnant . she gives birth to twins but to everyones surprise including her own , her daughter is light skinned and her son is dark skinned . the townspeople accuse local farmhand genus jackson of raping her . genus is lynched , dragged by truck down the twelve - mile straight and then dumped in the town square .

just down the road from buford stood a tree growing out of a rock . oddly this simple occurrence had some notoriety going back more than a hundred and fifty years . yes , literally a tree in a rock . people stopped to see tree rock and naturally i felt compelled to do the same .

county counting scratched an important itch along my preferred route and it also offered an attractive side benefit ; being able to stay in a lot of different colorado towns . each one displayed its own distinct personality . admittedly i gained a skewed perspective at ski resorts without the snow or crowds although i didn’t have any control over the timing either . several of the towns made it into earlier twelve mile circle articles and my adventures overlapped with some of those topics . now i finally got to see these rocky mountain places in person .

set in rural georgia during the years of the depression and prohibition . cotton county , georgia , 1930 : in a house full of secrets , two babies , one light skinned , the other dark , are born to elma jesup , a white sharecroppers daughter . field hand genus jackson is accused of her rape . he is lynched and dragged down the - twelve - mile - straight . in the aftermath , the farms inhabitants are forced to contend with their compliantly in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractur

the twelve mile straight by eleanor henderson is an epic historical novel set in georgia in 1930 . it was reminiscent of john steinbeck ' s of mice and men in both the style and atmosphere . back in the 1930 ' s the deep south continued to be a divide between the white and black americans . there were lies and lynchings , rapes and violence , and people turning a blind eye everywhere . it is not a comfortable read . it is deeply disturbing . in contrast there was love and loyalty between two girls . . . one blac

i began my run , made it a couple tenths of a mile and… started sucking wind . obviously i hadn’t acclimated as much as i’d thought . my legs seemed fine although i couldn’t get enough oxygen pumping to move them at anywhere near my normal pace . i throttled way back until i found a comfortable speed , a full minute and a half per mile slower than my normal pace . nonetheless i pounded the pavement for a little more than six miles ( 10 km ) and finished exhausted .

to see all of my book - related content , check out my blog @ urltoken the twelve - mile straight is not an easy book to read . it is not one that you read in one sitting or one that you read whilst sipping a cocktail , transported to a feeling of bliss . there is no happiness to be found in these pages , only anger and frustration and annoyance at the fact that you can’t step into them and save the characters from the cruel world in which they inhabit . i had to keep taking a step back from t

how i hate to begin this review with the sentence , " let me begin by saying how much i admired and loved eleanor henderson ' s debut ten thousand saints . " because this infers that i wasn ' t as impressed with her new novel , the twelve - mile straight . sadly , that is indeed the case . henderson ' s second book takes place in the depression era south , rural georgia to be exact . it centers around the family of elma jessup , a young white woman living with her sharecropper father , juke , and their african americ

one of the great joys of reading is discovering an debut author whose work just blows you away . eleanor henderson did that to me with her 2011 novel ten thousand saints , set in 1987 new york city and vermont . it is such an amazing book ( made into a movie in 2015 ) , i put it on my most compelling books of 2011 list . i was thrilled to hear that henderson would be at the book expo this year signing copies of her followup novel , the twelve - mile straight . i was first in a long line of people , all eager

wow ! i was not surprised that this novel was a tough read , given the subject matter , but i was surprised that it was so good ! the author made rural georgia in the 1930s come alive with her descriptions of daily life and the struggles to make ends meet . the characters were well developed , as the story was told from varying viewpoints . the selfishness of human motivations were laid bare in this book , sparing no one . i loved how the truths in the story were revealed slowly , in layers , reaching backward and forward in time , until it was a fully formed yet imperfect flower . my mind keeps going back to the twelve - mile straight and the lives lived and lost there .

independence pass allowed automotive traffic on colorado state highway 82 to cross the sawatch range and the continental divide . this covered the shortest direct distance between aspen and our next stop in leadville . however , the road also closed during the winter and didn’t reopen usually until the friday before memorial day . sometimes it opened later and i sweated out those details as our trip approached . we caught a nice break and it opened on time this year so we drove across the pass about five days after its seasonal availability .

i didn ' t even know this was made for television . . . a good small film with good acting . maggie grace and tom selleck have great chemistry as father and daughter , the rest of the cast isn ' t bad either . the quiet pace fits well with the country atmosphere , and dulcie ' s journey to finding herself again is believable . the most impressive scene in the movie , for me , was when dulcie ran into the forest , her dad catches her , she screams and her dad asks ' are you crazy ? ' . that ' s where the chemistry really clicks , i get the feeling some other actors might have completely ruined the film . 12 mile road is not a very original film , not even particularly thought - provoking or profound , but it ' s a great pick to watch a film with your girlfriend that both of you can enjoy . recommended unknown film .

after several rocky years , divorced farmer stephen landis ( tom selleck ) seems to have gotten his life together : his business is thriving , and his personal life has found stability and support in the form of his current girlfriend , leah ( anna gunn ) , and her teenaged daughter , roxanne ( tegan moss ) . things change radically when dulcie ( maggie grace ) , stephen ' s 16 - year - old daughter from his first marriage , comes to stay at his farm for the summer . stephen ' s ex angela ( wendy crewson ) has warned him that the mercurial , streetwise dulcie is " troubled " - - but that ' s not the half of it . the girl ' s disruptive and self - destructive behavior , coupled with stephen ' s ingrown feelings of guilt , threatens to ruin his present life and blight his future - - until fate , and a driving rainstorm , intervene . made for television 12 mile road first aired september 28 , 2003 .

residents of denver often call it the " mile high city " because its downtown closely straddles the 5 , 280 foot ( 1 , 609 metre ) barrier . the local baseball stadium even features a row of purple seats on its upper deck to mark the memorable elevation . while impressive to a flatland easterner like me , it hardly compared to some of the other places i reached in colorado . i doubled that elevation during our adventure and pushed upwards even farther .

i hadn’t planned to increase our elevation gradually as the week progressed although our selected route did just that . it seemed like a good idea in retrospect even if it happened by coincidence . on the second day we’d bumped our altitude from a mile high to about 6 , 900 ft . ( 2 , 100 m . ) as we arrived in steamboat springs . i began to feel acclimated at that point , no longer woozy and lightheaded from oxygen deprivation . my body seemed to have adjusted .

thanks to edelweiss and ecco books for an advanced copy of this book . after reading the first chapter of this doorstop of a historical fiction novel , i thought i was going to love it . it had a great first line , was hard - hitting , and hooked me immediately . but , the story just went on and on and on . i felt like i was reading this book for weeks ( it was actually 10 days ) . henderson told the extended backstories of seemingly almost every character in the book , which could have been cut back . i just wanted the story to be tighter , because it certainly had good bones ( to use a real estate term ) . and , by the time i got to the end , i didn’t care about the answers to most of the major questions…i just wanted to be done . who thought this was a good idea ? * to be fair , i didn’t have much time to read during the first half of the twelve - mile straight and i wonder if i would’ve felt differently had i been able to invest more time and mental energy to it up front . for more reviews , visit my blog : urltoken

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a divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer , a summer which changes the lives of the two of them , and their friends and family .

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divorced farmer stephen landis has girlfriend leah and her daughter roxanne move in with him . his wild and unpredictable 16 year old daughter dulcie comes for a summer visit . stephen believes his ex - wife angela is exaggerating dulcie ' s troubles , but comes to worry about her . dulcie and roxanne form a friendship , and with the time spent over the summer , grows closer to her father , and the wounds between all three are healed .

it ' s highly unlikely that a small suv ( probably a ford explorer ) could hit a cow hard enough to kill it . and drive away . the damage to the radiator alone would be more than enough to stop the car . and as the car drove away there was no apparent damage to the hood or right front fender .

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their peaceful country life is soon disrupted by the arrival of stephen ' s wild and unpredictable 16 - year - old daughter dulcie ( maggie grace ) . at first , stephen thinks his overwhelmed ex - wife , angela ( wendy crewson ) , whom he still misses , has exaggerated dulcie ' s troubles . however , he soon witnesses dulcie ' s bizarre and destructive behavior .

selleck previous cbs shows were the successful " magnum p . i . , " which aired from 1980 to 1988 , and the short - lived " the closer , " which aired in 1998 .

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when i saw dulcie feed that cow anti - freeze , i wanted to beat her within an inch of her life . i ' m glad i never had children because i would die to see one of them do something so evil like that .

solid hallmark - style movie . didn ' t get to watch it all the way through , but saw most of it , and while it ' s cheesy , it was pretty entertaining . until i get to watch the whole thing , i ' m going to temporarily rate this four stars . this will probably be my final rating though .

this is the kind of lifetime movie that you might find yourself watching when your child is up all night with a tummy bug . the plot is a cliche and the acting is uninspired . ohio ' s maggie grace is probably the highlight .

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a divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer , a summer which changes the lives of the two of them , and their friends and family . stars tom selleck , wendy crewson , maggie grace and anna gunn .

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dad is patient and caring ; mom wants what ' s best for her teenage daughter . other adults are engaged and present ; most of the teenagers are presented as hardworking and honest . central protagonist dulcie is a troubled girl who taunts , provokes , and mocks to test boundaries but eventually finds meaning in her life .

a truck almost hits a girl , swerves , hits a cow , killing it ; newborn baby dies , shown in coffin ; girl feeds cow antifreeze ; woman with bruised face says she ' s been hit by boyfriend ; girl calls her mom and pretends she ' s the police , saying she ' s been raped and murdered ; mom slaps daughter ; man cuts cow open to save calf , but no bloodshed .

some kissing ; a woman in a nightgown ; shirtless guy pours water over his head ; girl tells friend to have an orgasm while looking at a guy ; man and woman in bed after implied intercourse ; teenage girl discusses fear of pregnancy ; abortion discussed openly as an option to unplanned pregnancy .

" fat bitch , " " fat ass , " " screw you , " " damn , " " son of a bitch , " " hell , " " bastard , " " my god . "

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fed up with her daughter ' s acting out and bad attitude , divorced mom angela ( wendy crewson ) sends troubled teen dulcie ( maggie grace ) to live with dad stephen ( tom selleck ) on his farm . soon dulcie makes friends with dad ' s new girlfriend ' s daughter , roxanne , learns to help around the farm , and begins to figure out how to give more meaning to her life .

as a divorced couple resonate , and some of the quieter but more authentic moments of life on the farm have a picturesque beauty . but the movie hinges on troubled teen dulcie , who overacts through the film with tantrums and provocations that are never really explained and that don ' t seem to fit the quiet thoughtfulness of everyone else in the picture .

plus , it throws some heavy punches in the maturity department : teen pregnancy , animal cruelty , a newborn ' s death , a frank discussion of abortion as murder , some evangelism , and profanity throughout . this is more likely to be a hit among christian families who are looking for a reaffirming message , even if it throws a few curveballs . likely to spark discussions .

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at the beginning of the show seattle attorney angela landis ( wendy crewson , an actress i quite like whose presence in this film was one of the reasons i wanted to see it ) has had it with her rebellious teen daughter dulcie ( maggie grace ) . the last straw is when angela catches dulcie getting a great deal of her body tattooed ( though no trace of tattooing is seen on maggie grace’s body throughout the rest of the film ) ; she yanks her out of the tattoo parlor and announces that she’s shipping her off for the summer to her dad , stephen landis ( tom selleck , top - billed ) .

number ; they bought a farm in idaho , intending to stay there a few years and then return to city life — only he loved the great outdoors so much that he chose to stay there , while she hated it so much that she bailed on the marriage , moved back to seattle , got her law degree and settled into private practice , attempting to raise dulcie as a single parent and concentrate on her career . unbeknownst to angela , stephen has just met a new girlfriend , leah ( anna gunn ) , and she’s just moved into the farmhouse and brought her own daughter roxanne ( tegan moss ) with her . the moment dulcie shows up at the farmhouse and hates it so viscerally that she lashes out by feeding antifreeze to one of her dad’s cows ( it was interesting that lifetime ran this right after

, which also contained a scene in which a troubled child took out his / her own outrage on a cow ) , we just know that scenarist richard friedenberg ( adapting a novel by robert boswell ) is going to have her eventually fall in love with the place and want to stay there .

the child has a rare genetic ailment and only survives a few days , but in the meantime leah has bailed on farm life and told stephen that she regrets that she ever met him — and dulcie departs the idaho farm community on schedule but turns out to be listless and uninvolved in her old life . with the same kind of desperation ronald colman showed to get back to shangri - la at the end of

, dulcie steals her mom’s credit card , buys herself a plane ticket to idaho , hitchhikes from the airport to daddy’s farm and announces her intention to stay there — and when her mom shows up to retrieve them , mom and dad ( who’ve been divorced for a decade , remember ) end up in bed together . with mom’s career preventing a full - on reconciliation , she agrees to let dulcie move back in with her dad and , in the final scene , dulcie and her dad keep a dying cow alive long enough to give birth to a calf ( the credits even list lee romaire for “special makeup effects : calf birthing sequence , calf puppet” ) .

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as a resident of idaho , i couldn ' t resist watching this movie , plus it had tom selleck . the storyline was common enough , divorced parents , daughter lives with mom , daughter is a wreck , mom dumps daughter on dad who has a farm , and daughter goes from bad to tolerable . actually , the plot works , simply because everyone plays the part like real people . it ' s almost like we stepped into a reality show . we don ' t get to see every little thing lined out ( hmm , we have to think for ourselves ? that ' s different ) , and there is no great resolution . life is like that sometimes - - most of the time . this was a pleasant way to spend the evening , but not a terribly memorable movie . tom played a farmer fairly well , and the rest of the cast filled in the movie all right . the only character that didn ' t get a chance to develop was leah , tom ' s live - in girlfriend . she wasn ' t allowed much range , yet the one line she delivers about wishing she hadn ' t ever met tom ' s character felt real and sincere . if it comes around on tv or if you want a soft free watch from hulu - give this one a try .

enjoyed this picture which dealt with a farmer , stephen landis , ( tom selleck ) who lives with his wife and his wife ' s daughter . it seems that stephen was married to another woman and they also had a daughter and his ex - wife was having problems with her teenage daughter and decides to send her to her father for a few months during the summer . the teenage girl is from the city and on the wild side of life and going on a farm will simply blow her mind completely away , which it does . there are all kinds of problems that face this family during the summer and of course , one of the girls becomes pregnant along with cows as well . nice drama and tom selleck gave an outstanding performance in this film which was photographed in the state of idaho . good viewing .

i ' d like to see the sequel of that movie . the movie portrays a situation common or frequent enough in life . all the characters play parts that are believable . i ' m not including details not to spoil it for others , but the end of this movie is really the beginning of another story . i ' d like to see more of that story . i particularly enjoyed the males ' dialogue lines in the movie . they portrayed strong men , living strong , respectable values . the men portrayed good role models . the women ' s lines were all decent as well . thank you for that . i ' d love to be part of a writing team of that genre and caliber . thanks again .

i thoroughly enjoyed this down - to - earth story of a divorced couple who get together again , love blossoms once more and a family is back together again . the entire cast does a great job in this very touching tale with a good message . i am very pleased that such an appealing film was even considered for production in today ' s hateful film climate where almost every movie has to have flaming car wrecks , burning buildings , grotesque monsters , space ships and godawful special effects . this film is about real people in real situations that touch one ' s heart . let ' s have more like this . my only objection : tom selleck wears a grossly inappropriate monstrous moustache . shave it off , tom ! and for scenes where you don ' t have a shirt on , you might shave your chest , too , which looks like an overgrown forest !

unrealistic . because who would put up with a daughter like this , besides and extraordinarily weak father ? who would let their immature , naive 18 yr old daughter get married ? even if she is pregnant ? who would expose the daughter of a gf to his daughter if she was in this shape , and then stick up for her no matter what , and get mad at his gf for telling him the truth about her ? and then there is the feeding of the anti freeze to the poor cow . to me , this is the movie about a really weak father and his damaged daughter . i would have straightened her up , not made excuses for her misbehavior , or expect others to put up with it .

now this is what i call a good movie ! ! my melissa and i watched it and absolutely loved it ! it was about a man who lived in the country . he had a daughter who was a mess . the daughter ' s mom made her move up to her dad ' s farm . yes , the mom and dad are divorced . so , this beast of a girl moves up there and feeds one of tom sellecks ' s cows ant freeze . that was amazingly cruel . tom selleck ' s character even misses a wedding because he wanted to help a cow become unstuck . that was interesting . i love cows as well , but i mean , come on . there was an unusual cameo by patch adams . it ' s so hard to see that though . so many good things about this movie . i don ' t regret watching this tear jerker . in other words , my dame cried .

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divorced farmer stephen landis lives a normal life with his girlfriend leah and her daughter , roxanne until his daughter dulcie comes for a summer visit after having a fight with her mother . during the summer dulcie starts to heal her problems with her parents and they get together again . ( less )

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a divorced farmer ( tom selleck ) deals with the unexpected arrival of his troubled daughter ( maggie grace ) .

from new york times bestselling author eleanor henderson , an audacious american epic set in rural georgia during the years of the depression and prohibition . cotton county , georgia , 1930 : in a house full of secrets , two babies - one light - skinned , the other dark - are born to elma jesup , a white sharecropper’s daughter . accused of her rape , field hand genus jackson is lynched a

[ no , elms was not raped , was part of the cover up . wilson was nan ' s child by genus jackson , from whom he inherited sickle cell disease . ( hide spoiler ) ]

[ the author wasn’t clear whether genus and elma had sex - i can understand why it made sense to leave it up in the air at first , and i concluded that they were not physically involved despite desire on both parts . however , one sentence on page 168 said that " he had a hand on both their behinds " . i guess this is more a question for the author - why does the novel say this ? ( hide spoiler ) ]

as far as i could tell he was just fantasizing that part , of having both girls . he never laid a hand on elma and did have sex with nan

this historical southern gothic novel set in the depression era and prohibition is a hard read with its relentless depiction of the jim crow time . it is 1930 in florence , cotton county , georgia , when a sharecropper ' s daughter , elma jesup , a white single woman , gives birth to the gemini twins , one baby is white , and the other is ' coloured ' , an exceedingly strange event . elma ' s father , juke , who sells moonshine , is instrumental in pointing the finger at the good , kind and sweet genus jackson as th

e - galley provided through the generosity of edelweiss , ecco publishing and author , eleanor henderson , to be published september 12 , 2017 . a shout - out to bookseller , charles bottomley of northshire bookstore , manchester , vermont for his recommendation of this forthcoming book . eye - brows are raised and tongues are wagging as well you might think they would be when you hear the premise of this story set in 1930’s cotton county , georgia . elma jessup , the unmarried pregnant daughter of a sharecropper

i came to respect and appreciate this novel more than it promised in its opening pages . but i never did come around to liking it , exactly . which i daresay is the author ' s intent . ms . henderson testifies to this on the back cover : " i wanted to capture the innocence of those country stories , and also to fracture it . " fracture it she does , far beyond a funhouse mirror and into a thousand jagged shards . this is a punishing book . oh , it ' s easy enough to read , and ( for the most part ) smoothly told in it

* * 3 . 75 - 4 * * eleanor henderson had me hooked from page one – with the mystery of these two babies born with different skin colors ( no spoiler – this is part of the book jacket copy ) . then she reeled me in with the unimaginable actions of one of the characters against her own daughter . and i had to know : “how on earth could she… ? ” and “why on earth would she ? ” and then… other events occur that had me flipping pages for more answers . the stakes are high early - on in this story that is a reminder of the

find all my book reviews , plus fascinating author interviews , exclusive guest posts and book extracts , on my blog : urltoken the book is written in a distinctive narrative style which conjures up the period and location in which it is set . from its immensely powerful opening chapter , the book tells a story of poverty , cruelty , prejudice and secrets . ‘there were things no one wanted known by the outside , and no one knew that better than elma . ’ although it would be unfa

this got off to an emotive start with the lynching of a young black man accused of raping a white girl who has given birth to twin babies , one white , one black . but this implausible scenario is just the start of a tale which feels predictable , overly melodramatic , and too long . with a narrative which moves back and forth in time and with extended back stories to new characters , the plot seems to circle and stall rather than progress . the themes , too , can be ticked off on one hand : rape , violence , patriarchy , racism , misogyny . . . all important issues , for sure , but they ' re too pat here , used for dramatic effect rather than real insight . the twisted relationships feel contrived and the writing is somehow distanced so that it ' s difficult to feel involved . there are a lot of books out there about the american south and its oppressive past : this one repeats all the usual tropes and adds nothing new to the mix .

dnf ' d this one at the halfway point . i was into it when it first started , but by the halfway point , it seemed like the plot was spinning its wheels in the mud . part of it was for every character in the novel , there was a lengthy backstory to introduce . the shifts between the character ' s past and where they were in the current timeline was not handled smoothly . i also didn ' t buy the " gemini twins " angle because it seemed so implausible that people in the area who knew the family would be gullible enough to think both the colored baby and the white baby were born to elma . maybe it was better explained in the portion of the book i skipped . henderson does have a nice way with description and the dialogue seemed authentic , so did the historical aspects . maybe some stronger editing might ' ve served the story better and tightened it up into a four - star read for me .

i loved this book ! it was written with such authenticity that you almost thought it was a work of non - fiction . you can tell the author did a lot of research on the area even down to the cadence in the deep south during that era . it was uncomfortable to read about the mistreatment of many of these characters as the author makes you feel like you are right in the room . well done !

i don ' t know where to start , i loved this book so much . how ms . henderson can be in the mind of so many people and write like she was there just astounds me . she made me feel i was there in this tale of poverty , hate , prejudice , and just plain evil . mixed ancestry incest rounds out the story . not for the faint hearted , but not to be missed .

first , i ' d like to thank ecco for the giveaway and goodreads for hosting it ! i ' m so very grateful for the chance to pick this book up ! while i didn ' t particularly enjoy this book there was nothing inherently wrong with it , the writing was beautiful , the characters interesting , i would even go so far as to say the non - linear plot was expertly crafted . i felt immersed while i was reading it but as soon as i put it down it felt like a chore to pick it back up , i think this is due to two main reasons . one , despite being complex , i felt virtually no connection to the characters . maybe this is because of the style of narration or perhaps it ' s because their only purpose to the story was a vehicle for the tragic circumstances of the plot . which brings me to number two , everything is so very bleak and joyless with no relief from characters , dialogue nor circumstance . i ' m sure this is by design and clearly it worked for many people , it just didn ' t work for me .


big timber is a 1917 american silent film northwoods/drama produced by the oliver morosco company and distributed by paramount pictures .

it was directed by william desmond taylor and starred kathlyn williams and wallace reid .

it is not known whether the film currently survives , and it may be a lost film .

the film was remade in 1924 by universal with william desmond starring .

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big timber ( film ) <EOT> big timber pioneer ( 406 ) 932 - 5298 | 105 w . second avenue | po box 830 | big timber , mt 59011

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a new - wave western feature film spent 18 days in august filming in south - central montana . the production company based their operations out of billings . they used the moss mansion along with many other locations in the billings , columbus and big timber areas . montana crew and cast were hired for the shoot and the production company took advantage of montana’s big sky on the big screen act .

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title big timber year 1950 distributor ( s ) assoc . british pathe ltd classified date ( s ) 14 / 11 / 1950 submitted run time 72m 54s approved footage 6561 bbfc reference aff022900

timothy egan , author , the big burn : the big burn destroys an area the size of connecticut in 36 hours we ' ve never had anything close to it .

eight sections of lucien castaing - taylor’s mammoth big timber project : a revealing and often breath - taking look at sheep ranchers at work in montana , during the twilight of this kind of ranching .

is a 60 minute silent film , silent and slow . the film is broken in to 3 sections : birth , life , death . the film opens big ( very big ) with a static shot of the top of an enormous ship strung up as if by the strings of some daewoo puppet master . in this introductory section we not only learn the effort required to construct a ship but the effort required to view a film in which one must participate , not simply watch passively . hutton was once a seaman – an experience which , thankfully for viewers of his film , never shook free from his imagination . while

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aaron pederson — apparently , nullah when he was older . however this part was not included in the finished film — presumably because the film run time had to be shortened . exactly what aaron pederson ' s part in the ' australia ' film story was , has not been made public .

eddy : big bro ! it ' s me ! eddy ! you know ! [ whispering ] pipsqueak .

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narrator : the big burn swept eastward across the rocky mountains , picking up speed , consuming everything in its path .

the film was watched by 2 . 268 million viewers in its initial broadcast in the u . s . [ 1 ]

narrator : before the smoke had even cleared from the mountains , the debate over the lessons of the big burn began .

erin fitzgerald as may kanker , one of the kanker sisters wanting to save her " big ed " from the neighborhood kids .

timothy egan , author , the big burn : firefighting was a very , very primitive science . they were learning as they went along

after the big burn , chief forester gifford pinchot publicizes the selfless actions of the fire fighters who lost their lives in the blaze .

i ' d like to think that baz luhrmann may one day dig out the acres of discarded film footage and release a ' directors cut ' of his ' australia ' film - a revisited version ; longer than the current version , or cut into two parts . re - editing would involve months of work , but the result , unhindered by financial backer ' s ideas on ' acceptable ' film length , could be spectacular .

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remains enmeshed with a dialogue specific to its particular time . the subject of the film might be eternal , but its implications are very timely . ”

once you have seen the film , the information below will be helpful explaining anything you missed or would like to be reminded of . there is a huge amount of detail crammed into the ' australia ' movie - a lot of this interesting detail can be better appreciated during a second or third film viewing .

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browse a photo gallery of the men who fought the big burn in 1910 and helped make the u . s . forest service what it is today .

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many critics and urban bloggers have accused the film ' australia ' of being cliched and false . in doing so , they have illustrated their ignorance of life on remote cattle stations . the myriad of details built into this film are accurate , and such a large amount of authentic detail on the australian bush has never been written in to a film before — ever . so these details certainly don ' t qualify as cliches . but i suspect that 99 % of film critics didn ' t even observe the raft of authentic details that baz has built into his film , anyway . a good many of them have made amazing errors in their reviews ( the most spectacular of which was a vitriolic scottish guardian writer , who said lady ashley inherited a ' sheep station ' then walked a mob of cattle off it . )

ben mendelsohn — captain emmett dutton ( appears throughout the film , and clearly takes a shine to lady sarah ashley from the moment he spots her marching down the wharf on arrival in darwin . however his fondness for her is never voiced . if the film ran longer , no doubt this would have been played out in more detail . )

’ purpose is didactic : by replicating the artist’s own careful observation of the natural world , it seeks to assist its audience in becoming artists in their own right . moreover , benning offers surprising insight into the spatial nature of his medium , simply by anchoring his camera firmly in place . in short , the form of benning’s film directly yields its content . then again , benning’s film is not entirely without formal precedent : benning remains a structuralist in a time well after that movement’s cultural ebb . …benning’s film is about thirteen lakes , which is as far removed from the hollywood system as it is from environmental orthodoxy . perhaps there is no better way to conclude than to be reminded of the film’s simplicity and to consider the film’s nonconformity , both in terms of its form and in its content . whether it is its opposition to traditional narrative structures or to the environmentalist gospel ,

miriuwung ( also spelt ' miriwoong ' ) is the aboriginal language spoken in the film . it is commonly spoken in the east kimberley region of western australia , i . e . it is spoken in the area where ' faraway downs ' was situated . indigenous kununurra locals greeted the speaking of their language with much enthusiasm , at the film premiere .

two by two : ooops . . . the ark has gone ( aka two by two : god’s little creatures , aka all creatures big and small ) ( 2015 )

roddy mcdowall stars in this monogram b film as a preppy kid with a degree in forestry who gets a job at a logging camp where he calls trees by their latin names , befriends the girl cook ( jeff donnell ) , and makes an enemy ( ted hecht ) . lots of location shooting at lone pine , california , the film has a documentary feel as it depicts the various stages of logging big timber , which the loggers call " sticks . " one of a series of films that mcdowall starred in and produced for monogram . co - stars include lyle talbot , gordon jones , robert shayne , lyn thomas , and tom greenway . main problem is that the villain ( hecht ) is too obvious . pretty mild and not the best of the monogram bunch .

an extremely attractive and more than somewhat cocky stripper making the big bucks in the big apple . anthony envisions his big break when he enters a contest to be in an off - broadway production in new york city . tony sees “ $ ” signs when he finds a competition entitled , “america’s strip search ! ” thanks to these contests being held by the same production company , and our leading men having the same name , an unexpected case of mistaken identity explodes . horizons are broadened , lives are changed forever , and hilarity ensues .

he story of noah’s ark is rather bizarre in its original incarnation , but what this cheap european animated film does with it is almost beyond comprehension . and not in a good way .

however , beyond the disney , hidden within the film are some very clever , and well - researched nods to the history and archaeology of norway , in which the film seems to be largely set . indeed , the plot is loosely based on the tale of the snow queen by danish author hans christian andersen , who based many of his books on old scandinavian folktales .

at high noon on july 1st , deep in montana’s crazy mountains , kayakers converge above « the pinch » for one of the steepest and fastest creek races in the country . enjoy the ensuing chaos that is the big timber creek race . huge thanks to beartooth paddlers society , nate winning , and dave schroeder for organizing a killer event and congrats to the legend tyler bradt for bringing home the win and ceremonial axe .

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the arendelle links don ' t end with the name - the main castle itself looks like a stone version of a stave church . these stunning timber churches crop up in scandinavia when the areas become officially christian in the 11th and 12th centuries .

up until the late 19th century , the country had done its best to develop its open spaces - - encouraging the wholesale harvesting of timber , industrial mining on a vast scale , the blasting of railroads through the mountains and across the continent .

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the pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 big burn by u . s . forest service ranger ed pulaski , and it continues to be used by wildland firefighters to this day .

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narrator : their progressive vision imagined a new kind of commonwealth , national forests , controlled by an enlightened corps of rangers , overseeing not just the timber , but also the minerals , the water and the wildlife - - for the benefit of all americans .

narrator : in the decades after the big burn , the agency ' s uncompromising stand on fire would serve the forest service well , but its impact on the national forests would be fraught with unintended consequences .

inspired by timothy egan’s best - selling book , the big burn provides a cautionary tale of heroism and sacrifice , arrogance and greed , hubris and , ultimately , humility , in the face of nature’s frightening power .

see also my # wherearethewomen rating of two by two : ooops… the ark has gone ( aka two by two : god’s little creatures , aka all creatures big and small ) for its representation of girls and women .

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matt hill as ed , the tritagonist of the film . he is still behaving immaturely , but acts really nice to his friends . in this film , he is referred to as the bravest of the group . his convincing sadness touches eddy , causing eddy to change his behavior . it is revealed that his greatest fear is the eds breaking up . at the end , he becomes less dimwitted and much braver than he was previously shown earlier in the series .

the film follows the timber industry from logging through to export the sawmill is in chemainus , this version was built in 1924 . at the time the sawmill has owned by the victoria lumber company . it is 1946 that the sawmill came under the control of hr macmillan . given this is chemainus the logging operation is most likely a victoria lumber company show . 2 : 10 - spar tree being made 3 : 10 - buckers sawing a tree to length 3 : 16 - steam donkey in operation 3 : 43 - skidway to the water 4 : 33 - logging railway 4 : 52 - sawmill and log dump 8 : 10 - ship being loaded the film was made by the canadian government motion picture bureau narration david gwydyr narrator rupert caplan original source footage at this link : urltoken

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timothy egan , author , the big burn : they called what they were doing " the great crusade . " in some ways , it was a religious crusade to them . they were doing god ' s work to preserve the earth .

, the second part of what will be a trilogy , helmrich continues his chronicle of an indonesian family dealing with the trials and tribulations of daily life in the world’s largest islamic nation . shape won the top documentary award at the sundance film festival .

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samuel vincent as edd , the deuteragonist of the film . he is the smartest , of course , but got in some arguments with his friends . in this film , he helped out a lot with navigation , as he did help the eds get to where they were going . eddy blames him for the scam ' s destruction of the lane , causing edd to question his friendship with eddy . at the end , he becomes friendlier to eddy and less angry with his friends when they do mischievous things .

narrator : as primitive as fire fighting was at the turn of the century , gifford pinchot believed it was an essential part of his new department ' s mission . fire threatened the nation ' s timber , the very resource he and his rangers existed to protect , and they had to extinguish it at all costs .

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in addition to outlining the story and explaining some of the locations , some of the many authentic details that baz luhrmann wrote into the sets , the dialogue and the story are highlighted below . these are details that have been missed by the average film reviewer .

timothy egan , author : what finally muffles what ' s left of the big burn , is an early season snowstorm . snow can happen anytime in the rocky mountains , but you don ' t expect it at the end of august , early september .

she’s not telling them how to construct a movie . she’s explaining why she didn’t enjoy the movie they made . that’s what critics do . or are you suggesting that no one should ever make negative comments about a film , because they might hurt someone’s feelings—or sound angry ?

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if you don ' t want to know details of the ' australia ' movie story ( plot ) , actors and the characters they play , actual filming locations etc , before you see ' australia ' , then don ' t read the film synopsis below , until afterwards .

timothy egan , author , the big burn : it was a great , great culture clash . forest rangers were not popular at all . they were considered outsiders . even though this was public land , people still felt they could do as they wanted to with it .

eddy ' s previously unseen student id card is also seen later on in the film . as eddy pulls out the postcard to show ed , eddy ' s iconic chain - wallet opens . in it , we see eddy ' s school picture from " smile for the ed . "

the dvd released in april 2009 includes two extra scenes , not included in the finished ' australia ' film . one scene is titled ' angry staff serve dinner ' . it shows lady ashley being waited on by staff at the faraway downs homestead - presumably on the first night she arrived . the finished film shows no hint or suggested cause of friction between lady ashley and sing - song , bandy legs and daisy so in the absence of additional information , it ' s hard to know where this scene would have fitted in . more omitted storyline would have fitted in around it .

the mob of 750 shorthorn cattle was walked right into these beach - side cattle yards , which would not have worked , for the film , in the large city that darwin has become . the darwin bombing scenes were also filmed in bowen . ' australia ' filming also took place for a couple of weeks at the real stokes hill wharf in darwin , and scenes of both were fitted together seamlessly in the film . the bombing raids actually took place , but it was in 1942 , and prior to the bombing of pearl harbour , not afterwards . in total more than 2 , 000 australians were killed in japanese bombing raids .

charles e . williams , buffalo soliders national museum : pinchot expected the gps to go out and practice forestry the way they ' ve been taught , full of innovation , energy , and they were up for the job . but , what made that job difficult were the people that they encountered in these towns . the roustabouts , workers in the timber industry , in the mines , and railroads .

two months of filming took place in the north queensland town of bowen because it doubled as the darwin waterfront as it appeared more than 60 years ago . bowen had sufficient land that was vacant - and leasable - in the ideal spot . this enabled film sets - including cattle yards - to be built right on the waterfront .

in 1950s america , the walt disney true - life adventures became the definition of nature films by depicting particular animals as exemplars of post - war american life and morés . french nature film pioneer jean painlevé was the anti - disney : his fascinating short films tended to focus on aquatic species that confront conventional assumptions about gender and family .

bryan brown — king carney ( owner of all the cattle country in the top end except for ' faraway downs ' , which he is determined to own , to complete his monopoly of the beef market . halfway through the film neil fletcher knocks him unconscious with a rifle butt and pushes him into the saltwater crocodile infested river . )

arendelle is the kingdom in which the film is set . in old norse , ' aren ' may be derived from the old norse ' ørn ' , which means " eagle " , and ' delle ' is derived from ' dalr ' , which means " valley " – so it can be translated as ‘valley of the eagles ' .

' australia ' filming took place in sydney in - between the on - location filming in other states . weeks were spent filming at the fox studios near centennial park , as well as a historic property called camelot , in cambden on sydney ' s outskirts , which featured as lady sarah ashley ' s home in england . camelot ' s beautiful and distinctive brick stables with an arched , slat timber ceiling featured in the film . strickland house , a heritage - listed house in vaucluse , one of sydney ' s oldest - settled eastern suburbs , doubled as darwin ' s government house in the ' australia ' film . though also beautiful , darwin ' s government house is actually of far more modest proportions , design and building materials , as is typically the case for northern australian architecture generally , including station homesteads . but strickland house has a distinctive design and a magnificent outlook , and obviously it was a very convenient location for filming , being situated only a couple of suburbs away from fox studios in sydney . both camelot and strickland house fitted the roles they played in ' australia ' perfectly .

but pinchot had another reason to embrace a war against fire . he saw in it the key to his organization ' s survival . ever since the creation of the forest service , timber and mining barons - - many of whom also had seats in congress - - had attempted to slash the agency ' s staff and budget at every turn , determined to starve it out of existence . pinchot needed a weapon to fight back .

timothy egan , author , the big burn : when they come through , sparks go off , and the railroads aren ' t putting out these fires , they go to the forest service and they say " well it ' s your land , we ' re only coming through . you ' ve got to put these things out . "

weeks of on - location filming also took place in several locations in western australia ' s east kimberley region , in the far north - east corner of what is australia ' s largest state . the film ' s ' faraway downs ' homestead was built not far from the eastern bank of the ord river , near the very distinctive and aptly named ' house roof hill ' on carlton hill station . in fact ' faraway downs ' is shown on the map which appears in the film , relatively close to the real locations where much of the filming took place . the cockburn range also features in ' australia ' . as the crow flies , this spectacularly beautiful range , dotted with boab trees , is not very far away from carlton hill ( to the west , on the other side of the ord river ) . the cockburn range is located on el questro station ( more recently known as ' el questro wilderness park ' ) , located south of wyndham , but it is visible from a number of neighbouring properties as well . filming also took place on two of these properties , home valley station and diggers rest station , with a focus on some of the particularly special boab trees located on diggers rest and the pentecost river crossing on home valley , which are probably the ones that feature at the start of the film , in the droving scenes and during the wet - season near the end of the film .

in 1900 , unscrupulous timber baron jim fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off california redwood . much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a quaker colony , who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias . . . but these are the very trees he wants most . expert at manipulating others , fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels , and forms an unlikely alliance .

steve pyne , author , year of the fires : timber was really a critical industrial product , and we were going to run out , much like an oil crisis in present times . so the solution was to regulate this unsettled land as a public domain that would then be governed by scientific informed bureaus , and this would allow us to conserve it . not lock it up , but to use it in some kind of rational regulated way .

running for 2 hours 45 minutes , ' australia ' involves a few issues . the main ones are indigenous history and cultural traditions , colonisation & migration ; wwii and the japanese bombing of darwin ; and life on a remote northern cattle station ; with a poignant story of love , humour and tragedy woven amongst it all . despite what some film critics say , it ' s not actually a cut - and - dried story - conflicting angles are brought up - but unfortunately the average film reviewer isn ' t bright enough to realise that baz has presumably been very deliberate in raising complicated issues ( from indigenous drinking , encouraged by well meaning whitefellas , to the racism by recent arrivals in the country , adoption , etc ) .

cast away , in fact , jumps four years from the first terrible weeks to the final period , when noland has adapted to his new environment , but is preparing to escape on a raft . the big change is not internal ( we never discover his religion , his politics or his aesthetic interests other than his love of elvis presley ) but purely physical .

david paul grove as jonny 2x4 , the secondary antagonist of the film . he and plank portray captain melonhead and splinter the wonderwood on the run for the eds . jonny appears to be the nuthouse for still carrying plank around and tormenting the cul - de - sac . at the end of the film , upon arriving at the amusement park he finally gets to the point in beating up the eds only to have the rest of the kids retaliate against him ( because he was the last to arrive at the park ) . after the credits , a scene shows him back in the melon cave , plotting his revenge . plank however tells him that there is no time left in the movie , to which he replies , " what movie ? "

the first days on the island are well managed - the discovery of coconuts , the shaping of tools , the hope of imminent rescue , the descent into despair . the film ' s colour is cold , unromantic , quite unlike the gorgeous technicolor hues of the 1949 ( british ) and 1980 ( american ) versions of the blue lagoon , both shot in the same area of the south seas .

robinson crusoe actually had it lucky with a wrecked ship from which to salvage for rifles , gunpowder , tools , clothes , timber and so on . he also had a rather grand island to explore , to map and to colonise . chuck noland , whose name suggests someone dumped in no man ' s land , has wound up on a hard place as inhospitably rocky as the one that provided the briefest of sanctuaries to the eponymous hero of william golding ' s brilliant and remorseless pincher martin .

to reveal that hanks makes it home is merely to acknowledge that this is a big - budget hollywood picture , produced by its star , and there is a drawn - out , sentimental coda that more or less re - enacts tennyson ' s ' enoch arden ' , that great victorian poem about a desert - island survivor returning to discover that life has changed and his wife has remarried .

750 ' kimberley red ' shorthorn cattle that were typical of the era were sourced especially for the film and waited on agistment for more than twelve months . they were kept until november 2008 in case they were needed to film late scenes . many of these beautiful bullocks sported impressive sets of horns and naturally they became very quiet . when they were sold , several were purchased to form part of a bullock team . the specially trained horses used in ' australia ' were auctioned in april 2008 . a few months prior to the commencement of filming the book with the largest number and widest variety of cattle station images was purchased for visual research purposes - second unit director guy norris bought a copy of a million acre masterpiece in november 2006 , then cinematographer / director of photography mandy walker purchased a copy in december 2006 .

narrator : as the atmosphere finally cleared in the northern rockies , the true nature of the devastation became apparent . more than three million acres of forest had burned , and greeley estimated that a billion dollars worth of timber had been lost . the winds were so strong , entire sections of the forest had been flattened , huge trees spread out like kindling . soot from the fires darkened sunsets as far away as boston , and a layer of ash blackened the ice in greenland . the human toll was equally appalling .

tony sampson as eddy , the protagonist of the film . he still has his greedy and immature behavior and love for his brother until he learns from his mistakes . when edd calls eddy a " so - called " friend after a huge fight with him after he plays a not so funny joke on him , he becomes very sad and emotionally wrecked because all he ever wanted was just a friend or more to begin with , even going as far as to admitting that he was responsible for the destruction end of the scam , and this proves true at the end of the film when he gives up his old ways after his brother is discovered to be a fraud , and then all the kids ( except jonny ) forgive him for his past schemes after seeing why he wanted to be popular and they all become his official friends .

the closing scenes show ' faraway downs ' after the wet season - grassy landscapes and full waterholes . king george appears and nullah says goodbye to lady sarah - ditches his whitefella shirt and shoes with enthusiasm - and heads off on walkabout with his grandfather . ( this boab and waterhole appeared throughout the film , and are probably located on digger ' s rest station , south of wyndham , in the east kimberleys . )

timothy egan , author , the big burn : taft had a higher murder rate than chicago and five prostitutes for every man , they said , and when the rangers showed up , they were horrified . they cabled back to forest service headquarters , saying , " two undesirable prostitutes setting up business on forest service land . what should we do ? " and someone cabled back , " get two desirable ones . "

by late afternoon a soft breeze began to sway the tops of the white pine and spruce . by 5p . m . it had freshened to 20 miles per - hour , then 30 , and suddenly hurricane force winds of 70 miles per hour were hurtling out of the west , fanning the flames of thousands of fires like an enormous bellows , merging everything into one gigantic blaze . the big burn had begun .

timothy egan , author , the big burn : at one point roosevelt and pinchot are on the floor of the white house , maps spread out all over , and they are mapping out future united states forests . and roosevelt says " oh god , have you ever been up in the flathead valley ? i had a bully time there once . " he goes , " we ' ve got to include that . "

join us at the timber yard reception at here east for our next coffee morning catchup . as usual there will be an update from here east followed by a guest presentation . this month we’re delighted to be joined by kate mccurdy , communications officer at studio wayne mcgregor who will be talking about their exciting new space at here east and their community engagement program . to attend please rsvp by monday 22nd may 12pm at the latest to community @ urltoken - we can only accept people who ' ve sent an rsvp due to limited space .

unfortunately the authenticity of a lot of the more specific set and story details will only be appreciated by the small percentage of the population that are familiar with large australian cattle stations . for example : the weathered gidyea rails on the fence surrounding ' faraway downs ' , the very typical garden plants and white - painted rocks , the round timber horse yard , the tennis court , station sheds , the vehicles used - including the camels pulling the broken down car - and the drover ' s cook ' s wagon ; plus the water tank .

timothy egan , author : he stakes everything on the idea that man can control fire . though they ' d never fought a fire before . that ' s what ' s so interesting . the forest service is only five years old in 1910 . they have never fought a big fire . and it ' s almost like he ' s asking for it . it ' s almost like hubris . nature , bring it on .

steve pyne , author : one of the startling things that happened in 1910 , were all of the dead firefighters . there were 78 during the big blow up and this had never happened before . they had no idea what to do . there ' s no worker ' s comp . there ' s nothing to pay for their expenses , there ' s no burial money . they simply don ' t know what to do .

there ' s apparently an announcement due soon on plans to release a follow - up to the wildly successful disney animation , frozen . there ' s not a parent in the land that hasn ' t considered options for boarding - school when their cherubs start belting out the irritatingly catchy ' let it go ' song at 5am - from a film which spawned a whole new host of disney characters , including olaf the snowman and sven the reindeer .

scenes were also filmed at the spectacular king george falls , not far from the mouth of the king george river on the kimberley ' s remote north coast , and the striped beehive - shaped sandstone domes and cliffs of purnululu national park . the ' bungle bungles ' featured in one of the most dramatic droving scenes in the film , when the cattle rush . purnululu is located between halls creek and wyndham / kununurra , near warmun ( turkey creek ) .

after a scam goes badly wrong , ed , edd and eddy are forced to hightail it from the cul - de - sac . panicked , eddy suggests they hideout at his brother ' s place at least until the dust settles . agreeing , the eds embark on an epic journey through uncharted territories to locate " big bro ' s " whereabouts . . . unaware that the enraged neighborhood kids are tracking them down for a ' dork ' pounding !

at the very start of the film the unusual call of the pheasant coucal can be heard , and at the very end , the cacophony of blue winged kookaburras ( a quite different call to that of the larger and better known southern cousin , the laughing kookaburra ) . i first heard both these types of native birds when i worked on a remote cattle station in northern australia . their distinctive , haunting calls would echo along the splendid isolation of the mitchell river - families of blue - winged kookaburras would raise a racket early and late in the day , and solitary pheasant coucals would mainly call plaintively to prospective girlfriends in the hotter humid months during the storm and wet seasons . the memorable calls of these birds are absolutely typical of rivers and creeks in the northern australian bush , and this is a great example of a splendid gem of a detail that has gone totally over the top of the average film critic ' s head .

there’s a few scenes in the film where you are able to get a glimpse of ‘ futhark ’ script – this is a runic alphabet used both in scandinavia and in the uk by viking settlers . disney employed the services of dr jackson crawford , a runic specialist from ucla who provided the translation for this script . when translated , the runes tell the story of how the frozen ' curse ' came about , and how true love was the way to end it .

long before the word become synonymous with katie hopkins , a troll was a supernatural creature in norse mythology . trolls tended to live in mountains and caves and would enjoy annoying humans . they are mentioned in a number of norse stories such as the prose edda – a famous compilation of norse mythology . although a much later story , it’s no coincidence that the story of the three billy goats gruff comes from norway , they are a big part of norwegian folklore !

they arrive at the house on faraway downs just as the station has begun mourning the death of the boss , maitland ashley , who is laid out on a table inside . the smoking ceremony ( burning of gum leaves ) is in full swing , and the drover realises there has been a death immediately when he spots the green leaves that have been piled onto the fire outside the house . nullah hides in the empty water tank , thinking it is the ' coppers ' ( police ) coming to forcibly take him to the mission , where ' half - caste ' children are taken . ( the ' faraway downs ' film set was on carlton hill station , beside house roof hill and the ord river , near kununurra . the ' smoking ceremony ' is traditionally done by aboriginal people to ward off bad spirits when a person dies . as mentioned in the film - mentioning the name of an aboriginal person who has died is taboo , as is viewing their photograph . )

narrator : in the end , ed pulaski could never escape the big burn . he lived on with emma in wallace , remaining what he had always been - - a quiet man who loved the mountains of the west . crippled by the flames that had seared his eyes and lungs , he kept on working for the forest service until 1929 , stubbornly petitioning the government for compensation for his wounds , and for money to care for the simple graves of those who had fallen .

terry klassen as eddy ' s brother , the true main antagonist of the film . at first , he seems to be everything the kids have heard of from eddy , but in reality he is a sadistic , ruthless , contemptuous , and cruel young man who ravenously desires his pleasure for torturing eddy . he is ultimately beaten when ed sends the door from his trailer flying towards him , knocking him out cold . he was last seen in the movie dragged by the kanker sisters back in his trailer .

back in the cul - de - sac , after the end credits , deep within the melon - cave , jonny seethes in anger , hurt and enraged by the kids ' betrayal of him . he declares that captain melonhead ' s goody - goody ways are over and that he will rise again . he takes on the mantle of the gourd , while plank becomes timber the dark shard . maniacally , he swears to have his vengeance upon the cul - de - sac . however , plank tells him that there isn ' t enough time left in the movie , to which jonny replies , " what movie ? "

timothy egan , author , the big burn : fire is the last wild element of the west that hasn ' t been controlled . every wolf is gone , they ' ve exterminated the grizzly bear , they ' re all gone . so what ' s left is fire . and it ' s important to understand how fire is perceived at the time . the public , they fear it because these are wooden towns going up at every railroad stop all over the west . they really fear it .

timothy egan , author : the survivors go to these hospitals and they patch ' em up . but what happens afterwards is horrible . one of them commits suicide . others die months or a few years later , and they weren ' t even credited as part of the official casualty toll because their lungs were so badly compromised by how much smoke they breathed in . they die at 28 - 29 years old from the smoke of the big burn , which kills them six months after the fact .

timothy egan , author , the big burn : pinchot is one of the most fascinating characters , not just in american conservation , but in american history . he was a patrician ; he was a very odd duck . he preferred to sleep on rocks than a soft bed . he was an ascetic . but he had a vision . even though he was the product of a family that made their money in clear cutting forests ; he became , you know , one of the founding figures of saving forests .

lady ashley decides to keep faraway downs and offers the drover the job of managing it , but he declines her offer ( ' no man hires me , no man fires me ' ) and also declines her offer to attend the ball , saying he would not fit in . bandy legs takes nullah to see the wizard of oz at the open air theatre , gaining him entry by blackening his face and arms with charcoal . before the film , everyone watches dramatic black & white newsreels with the latest government - sanctioned war news .

the last few months have been busy for us . we were delighted to welcome more than 4000 visitors to the wonderful 64 bits exhibition over 3 weeks in april . the exhibition included a host of talks , workshops and discussions , welcoming a large range of different visitors including school groups and families . if you missed the exhibition , check out the following film created by centre for computing history , which includes an interview with jim boulton , digital archaeologist and curator of 64 bits , who talks us through the history of the internet .

the coffee - table book ' a million acre masterpiece ' was purchased by ' australia ' movie second unit director , guy norris , in november 2006 , then a copy was purchased by cinematographer / director of photography mandy walker in december 2006 ( just prior to the commencement of filming ) . the books ' biggest mobs - longest shadows ' and ' life as an australian horseman ' also feature outback cattle stations , and ' life as an australian horseman ' includes photographs taken on the station where the ' faraway downs ' homestead film set was situated .

jonny : this is your craziest plan ever , plank ! we ' ll show them . we ' ll show them all ! what ' s that ? they did , didn ' t they ? yes . . . the goody - goody two - shoe days of captain melonhead and splinter have come to an end ! out of the darkness ' ll rise . . . the villainous days of the gourd , and his evil cohort timber the dark shard ! together , we will exact revenge on the entire cul - de - sac ! [ laughs maniacally like an idiot , then suddenly stops ] what ? there ' s no time left ? it ' s the end of the movie ? what movie ? !

by the afternoon of august 20th , almost 24 hours into the big burn , the railroad town of avery had been successfully evacuated by the buffalo soldiers . now , the troops , and the few men left in town , found themselves facing a wall of steadily advancing flames . boarding one last train to the east , they raced across trestles , already ablaze , through a furnace so hot the paint melted off the outside of the railcars . then , the fire jumped ahead and blocked their way . with nowhere else to go , they were forced back to avery .