Glass (1958)

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…

Release Date : June 27, 1958

Runtime : 10m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Netherlands Government, George K. Arthur - Go Pictures, Bert Haanstra Films

Countries : Netherlands

Keywords : glass blowing, short film, poetic documentary