Heritage of Glass

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1960

Complete Record: Offices, factories, office workers and factory workers from the 1960s. Multiple types of glass. Men working in factories in various stages of glass manufacturing. Rollers, furnaces, glass in hot/liquid state. Men and machinery working on solid glass plates. Libby Owens the aristocrat of glass. Giant grinders and polishers working on sheets of glass. Active bath and drying rollers finishing up glass production assembly line. Men make final inspections and cuts to plate glass. Women shopping, looking through the plate glass of store windows and display cases. Architectural illustrations of storefronts and showrooms featuring glass fronts. Shots of the conveyor belt of the assembly/production line. Men de-boarding a plane. Woman tidying up around her home. Woman looking over the set up of her dining room. Woman and daughter in a bedroom, woman moves throughout the bedroom near all the glass/mirror surfaces. Woman in a modernist glass kitchen and dining alcove. Thermo-pane glass (double-pane glass). Rooms with large, glass window panes looking out to the exterior. Family members around the house near large window panes. Man cleaning exterior window panes (small and large) in the old manner (bucket and ladder) and the new manner (pole and squeegee).