Bronze Sculpting

Narrated by Austin broadcast personality Cactus Pryor, this 1960s educational film details the lost-wax method for bronze sculpting. To do so, the film follows the creation of a sculpture by Charles Umlauf. At his Austin studio, Umlauf designs, molds, and casts a figure out of clay and hydrostone. The piece is then shipped to the Fonderia Artistica Battalgia in Milan, Italy, where craftsmen construct a full-scale clay model. Following several stages of mould-building, the bronze sculpture is finally cast, assembled, and shipped back to Texas.