CAITHNESS GLASS
Full length video
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Title: CAITHNESS GLASS
Reference number: 9489
Date: 1968
Director: filmed by Tom Stitt
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 5.59 mins
Description: Amateur footage of the Caithness Glass factory in Wick, showing glass blowing, sanding, design and etching.
Shotlist:
Worker in factory blowing, shaping then cooling glass. Two workers make a large glass bowl made out of different colours. The bowl is then left to dry. A worker is shown inspecting finished glasses and packing then into crates. Shots of a production line where two people work to fix and cut glass into tumblers. Glasses are sanded and some are etched with large and small machines with patterns and designs.