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Glass(Movie, 1958)

Original title: "Glas" (Dutch/NL)
10min | Genre: Documentary
GlassRating: 3.8/5 (with 1616 votes)
Glass (Dutch: Glas) is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The film is about the glass industry in the Netherlands. It contrasts the handmade crystal from the Royal Leerdam Glass Factory with automated bottle making machines. Short segments of artisans making various glass goods by hand are joined with those of mass production. It is often acclaimed to be the perfect short documentary. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Glass

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

About Glass

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks….

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Additional Information

Production country: Netherlands
Original language: Dutch (NL)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/01/1958
Director: Bert Haanstra
Producer: Bert Haanstra
Screenwriter: Bert Haanstra
Composer: Pim Jacobs

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:106964, Added: 03/21/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024