POTTERY MAKING
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✎ Suggest a correctionPresents a professional potter at work making clay preparatory to centering it on a wheel, shaping, trimming, and preparing it for firing. An Indian bowl is constructed by the coil method of building up and shaping coils of clay, on which a primitive design is later added. The use of a plaster cast in the molding of duplicate pieces is also shown. Techniques of applying glazing slip by dipping, brushing, over coating are shown. After firing, the glazed pieces are removed from the furnace and displayed in a home setting.
Complete catalog record
Dewey number: 738
Audience level: sh-c-adult
Format/cost: 16-si-$48; rent $2
Distributors / rental: PPC sale apply rent $1; Indiana University $2.50; University of Iowa $3; University of Wisconsin $2.50
Audience level: sh-c-adult
Format/cost: 16-si-$48; rent $2
Distributors / rental: PPC sale apply rent $1; Indiana University $2.50; University of Iowa $3; University of Wisconsin $2.50
Sources
- Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
- Bell & Howell Filmosound Library Catalog of Educational Motion Pictures, 1942 — title, length, format, color, sound, genre, description
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