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  1. Glass Gets Tough

    Date released
    3 Feb 1936
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    515
    NoS ID
    034336
    Story no
    5 / 7
    Extras
    1 shot list

    America perfects a bullet-proof variety ... Flexible glass, produced in Germany, passes first test.

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  2. Coal into Glass

    Date released
    14 Feb 1935
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    414
    NoS ID
    033707
    Story no
    4 / 6

    Another science miracle. New by-product does all that glass can do and is almost unbreakable.

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  3. Made to Order

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    349292
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS Summary - glassblowers making a complex piece of laboratory glassware BP synopsis: New glass apparatus for the Research Station at Sunbury is made on the premises by Mr. Ritches. Here they test the oil...

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  4. Glass Now (2003)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £17.99

    Glass is a complex and alluring material: solid yet liquid, strong yet fragile, it reflects, refracts and absorbs light. These unique properties are being pushed to the limit by innovative artists in Britain...

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  5. Faces

    Date released
    23 Feb 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    612
    NoS ID
    333150
    Story no
    2 / 4

    British Pathe synopsis: "Or the strange inside truth about a great industry." C/U of a man who is glass blowing. His cheeks are all puffed out with the strain. "This should be attempted only by people...

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  6. Heart of Glass (1976 Video)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    German studies
    Distribution
    Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. col. 94 min., 1995 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Werner Herzog’s version of a German folktale about a shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a factory boss whose expert has died.

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  7. Glass - A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2009)

    Director
    Scott Hicks
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £8.00

    In July 2005, Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Hicks followed Philip across three continents and...

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  8. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    1941
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    349971
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - Working of a glass factory Documentary News Letter synopsis: The first [item] shows some of the operations in a glass factory where much of the work is still done by hand and mouth. The ancient...

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  9. Glassworks (1978)

    Director
    Murray Martin
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes)

    Shot at a factory specialising in hand-made glass. Parallels the activity of the factory floor with the slow, once closely guarded process of refractory pot-making in the pot loft. Against the general...

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  10. porous glass

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    Britain Can Make It
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    352061
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Making porous-glass filters

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