Variant Title:
Fire and sand: the mysteries of glass with James Houston
Notes:
Title from title frame.
Shown as part of the program Spectrum, March 11, 1981, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
This item is part of the Steuben collection (c.3)
Production assistant, Haruko Flower.
Narrator, Margaret Pacsu ; glass artist, James Houston.
A very good overview of the history of glass, expecially from a visual standpoint. Filmed at Steuben with James Houston, at the Corning Museum of Glass, and at Pilchuck, as well as in the studios of glass artists. Numerous objects from CMG are shown, although without identification. Sidney Goldstein and Dwight Lanmon, from The Corning Museum of Glass, speak briefly. Perhaps half of the film is devoted to contemporary glassmakers and their work, including Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, Mary Shaffer, Robert Jekyll, Karl Schantz, and Harvey Littleton.
DVD.
Films Incorporated (Chicago) distributed this in two parts, in 1984, in their "Hand and Eye" series.
