Glass

© Glass (Bert Haanstra, 1958)

Glass

This short documentary demonstrates how glass blowers work in Dutch factories such as  Leerdam or Schiedam. Thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and mechanical motions of the engines, it is predominantly a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is illustrated by the voice of filmmaker Bert Haanstra himself, counting the bottles on the conveyor belt until one of them breaks.