Video Parts (2)
This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
How Glass Is Made Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Large circular table covered with plaster-of-Paris, water thrown over it, large sheet of glass being slid onto table - workers dancing on glass on table to imbed it into plaster-of-Paris - circular table on tracks rolling under polishers, workers lowering door - polisher in operation - plant, ‘Ford’ water tower, large steam shovel, piles of sand, steam shovel filling railroad gondolas with sand - large sheet of glass being carried vertically by overhead crane, being set against frame, frame lowering to horizontal position, glass being slid onto circular polishing table covered with wet plaster-of-Paris - workers dancing on glass to imbed it into plaster-of-Paris - sheet of glass being carried by overhead crane, being placed on frame, frame lowering - aerial view of river, plant - workers forming base of large clay pot, smoothing it out. [1927]
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