CAITHNESS GLASS

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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.