
movie
Glass
TMDBJun 27, 1958
TMDB7.7
DirectorBert Haanstra
Runtime
10m
Status
Released
Language
NL
Country
Netherlands
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…
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