Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Art of Glass Blowing

Duration: 11 mins 35 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Alan Macfarlane talks to Tony Cummins, one of the last traditional glass blowers, as he demonstrates his art and the making of a flat glass object in an old glass house near Birmingham.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 16:04
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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