| THE GLASS MAKERS OF MURANO, VENICE Venetian Glass Making | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6801 |
| Catalog #: | 446607 | |
| Clip Number: | 446607-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 307 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Venice, Italy | |
| Year Shot: | 1929 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Glass | |
| Description: | THE GLASS MAKERS OF MURANO, VENICE The art of the glass blower is demonstrated. Venice, Italy Shots of handsome young man making glass plate. MS worker pulls a rod with a blob of molten glass on it out of the furnace. MCU worker rolling the blob back and forth along a counter. CU glass being rolled. MCU the worker turns the stick while another worker holds another such tool with glass on the end; they wind stripes of contrasting color round the first guy's glass thing; a boy behind helps to turn the pole. MCU worker sticks the pole into furnace again to heat it back up. Worker blowing glass - the work is now an almost globular vase or bowl MS he rolls it again using tool to shape mouth. But next is a surprising thing - the guy stands up and spins the thing round and round so that the glass goes outward, turning into a giant plate 2 ft. diameter. He holds this up in the air and deposits it on a platter held up by another worker. MCU a different worker rolling pole and using a shaping tool to create a wine glass. MCU another worker holds onto the glass with a tool while the 1st taps on the pole to get it off. MCU worker holds pole with bulbous glass thing while attaching other blobs of glass to it and bending them. CU same; he's making a glass octopus. He deposits the octopus on a board & another guy carries it away. MS in a shop a man in suit holds a big round jar. CU little human figures on a shelf; hand adds another one. CU man sets the little glass octopus on shelf with other objets d'art. Crafts, skills, skilled work, crafts, craftsmen, glass blowing, objet d'art, Venetian glass, beauty | |
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