Glass

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Documentary

Overview

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks…

Keywords

short film
poetic documentary
glass blowing

Details

Status: Released
Release date: June 27, 1958
Original language: Dutch
Spoken languages: NO LANGUAGE
Countries: Netherlands
Production: Netherlands Government,George K. Arthur - Go Pictures,Bert Haanstra Films,Netherlands Government, George K. Arthur - Go Pictures, Bert Haanstra Films
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0052852