From Stump to Ship is an amateur industrial film by Alfred K. Ames, former State Senator and owner of the Machias Lumber Company, in Machias, Maine as well as by Dr. Howard Kane of Washington, DC.
Detailed views of mill work, changing the bandsaw, and making shingles.
Lumber is loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York.
In 1985, with funds from the Maine Humanities Council, the narration was recorded with the film.
Footage was included in the compilation documentary Woodsmen and River Drivers, Another Day, Another Era[3] which also interviewed the surviving woodsmen of the Machias Lumber Company.