Focus on art. Vitrix Glass Studio [videorecording] / Tompkins County Public Library, in cooperation with Area Video Archives ; produced by Louis Mezgar.

Title: 
Focus on art. Vitrix Glass Studio [videorecording] / Tompkins County Public Library, in cooperation with Area Video Archives ; produced by Louis Mezgar.

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Publisher: 
[Ithaca, N.Y.] : Tompkins County Public Library, c1981.
Description: 
1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Other Authors: 
Buechner, Thomas S., III, 1954-
Parrish, Johnnie.
Mezgar, Louis.
Vitrix Glass Studio.
Area Video Archives.
Tompkins County Public Library.
Format of Material: 
Video
Subjects: 
Buechner, Thomas S., III, 1954- Interviews.
Vitrix Glass Studio.
Glass studios New York (State) Corning. YKM
Glass blowing and working United States 20th century.
Glass blowing and working Technique.
Bib ID: 
62003
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Location: 
Audio/Video Collection
Call Number: 
Focus on Art. Vitrix Glass Studio
Holdings Note: 
DVD Digitized Preservation Copy
Location: 
Audio/Video Collection
Call Number: 
Focus on Art. Vitrix Glass Studio
Holdings Note: 
VHS
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Variant Title: 
Vitrix Glass Studio
Notes: 
Title provided by container label.
"Focus on Art" is a bi-weekly program on art and artists, produced by the Tompkins County Public Library, in cooperation with the Area Video Archives.
Theme music played by Pamela Cook Sobel.
Presented by Johnnie Parrish ; glass artist Thomas S. Buechner III.
Filmed at Vitrix Glass Studio, Corning, New York.
Tom S. Buechner III, discusses studio glass - his own background and studio, Littleton, and Labino. He then gives a tour of his studio - the furnace, color pot furnace, annealing oven, and glory hole. While he blows glass, he discusses how he obtains color, blocks the glass, uses jacks, applies bits, etc. A very good film.
VHS.
DVD.
Event Notes: 
Filmed at Vitrix Glass Studio, Corning, New York.