Glass-Making

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

424

Date Released

11 Feb 1963

Date recorded

4 Jan 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

744

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Beautiful Beatnik
2. 2Glass-Making
3. 3Maigret Cafe

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - Glass is made at a factory in London.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: Another grand transformation scene - we start in a scene of roaring furnaces and corrugated iron - a Cinderella’s kitchen in a big London glass-blowing works. Every fifteen weeks they have to replace the pot in which they heat the molten glass - and they break down its wall and rebuild it round the new pot with the furnaces at full blast. The heat really punches you in the face and the whole operation is carried out like a smash-and-grab raid.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture

Locations

London; England

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

252

Story extras:

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