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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The film narrator follows the dog toward an irrigation dam and then enters the man's remembered work in a timber mill. The man tends a boiler, drinks wine and moves through the machinery.
The narrator changes scenes between riverbank and mill while keeping the man and dog in view. Machine sounds and the boiler's heat provide the setting. The actions belong to the character in the draft rather than verified biography.
Film page '2.': the man's occupations pass by, then the scene moves to a mill 'way in the woods' where the character, under 'a turn of the century boiler', drinks 'fifth's of red wine', opens the grates ('The fire is full as hell'), and sits 'like a flash reminding us / of a tode stool.'
The night-boiler work is shown as solitary, physical and half-comic; the page's source spellings are kept.