Refer to MJH sound documentation videotape with Ms. Hilda Lourie (the wife of Leopold's son Paul) describing the activity and people appearing in the films.
The Lourié family visits relatives in Pinsk, Belarus in August 1934, including shots of the family's plywood factory in Pinsk. Woman looks at large plaques written in Hebrew, outdoors. Two pre-teen girls climb over large logs, walk out of a building and look at another building. Pan of the town of Pinsk and the family factory. Shoreline filmed from a moving boat, and men in canoes. On shore, one of the girls and a woman walk over as men bring large logs onto the shore. 5:02 Three men talk, one in a suit. Lourie plywood factory process: large logs, bark removed from smaller logs by two men with a hand tool, inside the factory a machine strips the logs into large sheets, workers handle and stack plywood, piles of plywood loaded onto train car (13:02), train moves out. 14:52 Fire-fighters line up and climb ladders. Workers eat outside. Men supervise factory activities. Girl walks on piles of logs.
Visiting family in Pinsk, 1934