The Making Of Wedgwood Reel 1 (1958)

1958? Titles read: ’ASSOCIATED BRITISH PATHE Present - The Making of Wedgwood’. Reel 1. Pan across 1700s painting of canal and buildings of ’Etruria’ - garden factory built by “that practical idealist - Josiah Wedgwood... born in 1730“. Several scenic shots of countryside in Barlaston, Staffordshire, where the Wedgwood business is now located. A man climbs over a sty and walks beside the lake. Steam train arrives at small rural station. Doors open before the train stops and crowds of men and women (workers) get out and walk along platform, past station sign reading ’Wedgwood’. Shots of the new Wedgwood factory buildings, with statue of Josiah holding a vase (?) in the grounds. Several shots of people at work in the factories; digging clay from big containers and putting it into vats. Using machinery to move ingredients from one place to another and mix them together. Ingredients are weighed as commentator explains the difference between china and earthenware. Pressed slabs of clay are put thr