This is a film of the sculpture Alan Dickinson using wood to make some of his bird sculptures.  It is accompanied with lilting music and a narration in verse form. The film opens in the woods where a pile of logs has been stacked up.  Showing the trees in summer, a blackbird feeds its chicks in a nest.   As old trees are shown, and a weasel eats the carcass of another weasel, the commentary remarks on how the new pushes out the old, and that nature gets outside help, as a woodman, Alan...

This is a film of the sculpture Alan Dickinson using wood to make some of his bird sculptures.  It is accompanied with lilting music and a narration in verse form. The film opens in the woods where a pile of logs has been stacked up.  Showing the trees in summer, a blackbird feeds its chicks in a nest.   As old trees are shown, and a weasel eats the carcass of another weasel, the commentary remarks on how the new pushes out the old, and that nature gets outside help, as a woodman, Alan Dickinson, appears to check the trees and using a chainsaw, fells those with decay.  He then cuts them into logs.  Alan Dickinson sits on a log and the commentary states that he dreams that, “locked inside the tree lies the secret of humanity”.  Then, again using the chainsaw, he makes a sculpture of a stork from one of the logs. Alan Dickinson is then interviewed as a he stands before some of his carvings at his stall at the Great Yorkshire Show.  He gives a demonstration of his carving in front of an audience of adults and children, and the film shows the first prize rosettes he has won at the show.  The film closes showing some of his award-winning carvings. Carvings by Alan Dickinson, music and lyrics by Peter Mogridge Narrating John Marshall, recorded by Peter Byrne music Oliver Brand sound Keith Overend , directed by Roy Vickers