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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
How Glass Is Made Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Cliff with trees on top and railroad tracks at base - worker using dolly to move sacks to small door of oven, dumping contents on floor - close-up of white powder spilled out of sack - worker shoveling white powder into small door - placing wheelbarrow under door, raking dark colored powder out of oven into wheelbarrow - worker placing small amounts of powder into large vat with power-driven stirring paddle in it - large revolving table, ‘8’ on center support arm, revolving wheels with revolving buffers arranged around perimeters polishing pieces of metal or glass on large table - large crane moving white powder from pile in foreground - substance flowing into container - two men running at base of cliff, explosion - mine car being dumped into crusher - fine material flowing from crusher - huge sheet of glass on moving table coming out of lehr, rollers under glass moving it to another table, first table returning to lehr - worker on sheet of glass marking a line across it, sheet parting along line - table, sheet of glass about 18x24 feet in size on it, table tilting to vertical position, light through patterned table and glass - workers on scaffolding formed by underside of table at top edge of glass, attaching it to crane cable, crane lifting and moving sheet of glass - burning fuse sticking out of ground at edge of rock - cliff, trees on top - furnace door opening, clay pot held by tongs entering furnace, worker behind shield operating machinery, placing pot over flames, withdrawing tongs - view into furnace, flames around pots - row of furnaces - machine on tracks stopping before one of furnaces, arm reaching in, withdrawing - worker behind protective shield pushing tongs into furnace, withdrawing pot - pot being placed on turtle wagon - workers skimming top glass from pot with long-handled tools - pot being moved away. [1927]
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