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 through a machine that squeezes it into cylindrical shapes.
In a showroom we see Chairman and Managing Director Josiah Wedgwood (descendent!) examining pieces of fine china with Victor Skellern, Head of Art Department, and Norman Wilson, Production Director. Artists at drawing boards, working on designs on paper and crockery. Modeller makes prototype urn in clay. Potter at work with clay on wheel. Veteran lathe used by a craftsman and woman wheel-turner. Ornamenter fixing handles to small vases. Woman worker presses clay into a mould and turns out figures used in the famous Wedgwood design 'The Dancing Hours'. A man puts them in position on a bowl. Man doing intricate work on traditional orange bowl.
Several shots show process in making dinner plates, cups and a Wedgwood Edme vase. Pottery is fired in the huge, electrically heated kilns, then glazed. Engravers at work. 'Napoleon Ivy' design is printed on a heated roller press and transferred to plate then painted over by hand. (Some of this footage is also found in CP 319 - Crockery Design.) 'Strawberry Hill' design is transferred to a plate. Woman who is Head of the Wedgwood School of Freehand Paintresses at work on 'Vine' design. Others at work on 'Ruby Tonquin' design, which, after several coatings of paint and powder, washings and firings, results in a red background with golden flowers. Continued in Reel 2.
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[@owlcod7188]

craftsmanship and quality that will never be repeated or replicated

[@mike2228]

What?

[@Al828282]

I have a single Wedgwood cup, but this film makes me want a complete set!

[@RegnaSaturna]

Watching this it dawned on me that there is little room for beauty in the world today.

[@thetiredcynic]

Your world is so small to think that way.

[@Piecenotwar]

Mass produced cheap crap from China.

[@dinakay330]

Wow, good alternative to time travel

[@dalkalavi7983]

Очень интересные познавательные видео, спасибо вам за такой прекрасный архив!

[@jimbearone]

MASTER CRAFTSMANSHIP a word seldom used today. Wood Furniture was made the same way, out of REAL WOOD not Particle Board or Laminated Wood. Which is why they become ‘Antiques’ instead of land fill.

[@mike2228]

You can still buy handmade furniture

[@MarkEliasGrant]

@@mike2228 It's **rare** most of our "furniture" is particle board from Chinese slave factories. The price point of hard wood craftsman furniture is INFINITELY higher than when it was just "regular furniture". Sadly.

[@Elizabeth42069]

watching these old videos makes me feel cheated in some vague sense of the word. i wouldve liked to have experienced a world like this, i guess

[@crisxoc4409]

In some ways

[@macfries101]

Amazing good quality handmade to last years!!!

[@karengunia5451]

Enjoyed this video very much! Thank you

[@jaswanthreddybora740]

The accuracy with which they are doing and the perfection they have achieved is absolutely commendable and replicating that would be the difficult part

[@suzannahchirgwin-wade8751]

Very beautiful Wedgwood beautiful colours

[@miguelangelcarrancomontelo5578]

Facinating labour

[@alessandramarques6965]

Maravilhoso 👏👏. Agradecida pelos vídeos❤️🇧🇷

[@anniekinsmishkamouse7575]

The employees make it look so easy. But, I know it takes a lot of time and effort to learn their trade. I love my jasperware Wedgewood. Both the pieces handed down a newer ones I collected.

[@clintmacarthur7895]

4:53. I have that vase and it’s original grate for stems.

[@shaidabegum.]

Wow. Love the craftsmanship.

[@Phlavora]

so cool

[@kyolym]

Sad to think how prized and collected this once was, No market for this stuff any more in this Generation

[@ThomasSimpsonOfficial]

The England that we will never see again......

[@MCFC111]

Lovely

[@theofarmmanager267]

Womderful to see these skills as they were dying out. The masses could buy reasonable copies so much cheaper and the percentage of people who wanted and could afford the very highest quality fell and fell and became too small to make the industry viable as it was.

[@joeswanson733]

basically everyone is an expert at this craft to keep the assembly process even moving.

[@charlesnelson5187]

God Bless 'em all!

[@Nero0]

Thank you!

[@ScoutsBrasil95]

Maravilhoso

[@ritawing1064]

Josiah Wedgwood was also notable for opposition to parliamentary eugenics bills.

[@johnbrown651]

teach for you old friend

[@georgepierson4920]

3:34 I have had days like that.

[@royalbloodedledgend]

They don’t make them like this anymore

[@Cracktaculus]

"Your job sir, is to operate the giant Play-Dough® extruder machine."

[@marymatheus3662]

Infelizmente, esse modo de produção acabou no ocidente. Hoje é tudo chinês. Não admira o caos social que estamos vivendo.

[@hired-hand]

What a wonderful masterpiece! Baby boomers are buying up all the qualities the next generation has! no drug abuse & weird body tattoos

[@ShakespeareCafe]

From Wedgwood to Walmart...

[@briandoyle667]

Hate to see the electric bill if it was these days!!

[@tilasole3252]

9:12 Nixon!?

[@Minnesota_Lakes]

😂 good one 😂

[@АндрейБогодухов-г5у]

🙃🙃🙃💗

[@dyland9147]

Little known fact: After being discharged of the factory due to lead poisoning, the Wedgwood employees were replaced with Oompa Loompas in the 1960's.

[@MCFC111]

😧

[@sionalunevans]

and then cnc in the 90s

[@kurtreber9813]

@@sionalunevans and Orcs in the 2000s

[@محمدالحنين-ح2ر]

💐🧚⚖️♥️🌇

[@HiggsRaccoon]

I had to laugh at the intro music; the same snippet of sprightly music that The Goodies later used as the background to their "gender education" film!

[@ابوعلي-ظ9ع5ح]

💐⚖️🏚️🌇📓🖊️

[@fokinDim]

мы не увидели ни одного улыбающегося американца. а ещё говорят русские мрачные.

[@richardboli482]

This makes it expensive

[@carolvenables3970]

Fastening

[@xedang6576]

Viet nam 🇺🇸👍

[@alexanderson1193]

ghastly tableware

[@tadakadinesh511]

I don't know it's difficult...if that's a professional craftsman...please visit Indian temples ....our ancestors carved on stone that kind of statues ....and many wonders....m

[@Fush1234]

They must have bee very skilled at running a company. Because in 2009 the comp[any was put into receivership and it was not voluntary. Perhaps they got too carried away with their own importance

[@mohdkhushairimohdrejab1616]

The craftsmanship is absolutely amazing

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Simply fantastic! Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing.

[@prun8893]

Computers and plastic ruined everything. We traded our humanity for convenience and efficiency.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

I love my great grandmothers wedgewood. This is precision work

[@chriswatkin5476]

Wedgwood

[@clifforddalton3067]

Thank you for a brilliant video, of Wedgwood's History to the incredible talented team that produce these amazing wares. I am a potter so I know just what goes into the process from a ball of clay into a masterpiece. I think unless you've been a potter, you'd never realise all the hours of very talented people to produce Wedgwood. TEAM work always prevails. Excellent. This comment is way out of time, because I only discovered it today LOL ONLY 8 years out of date though :)

[@MegaGrigoryan]

This is really great film

[@usmale4915]

Very fascinating! Thank you for sharing this! It's just great!

[@СветланаАлешина-ц1я]

Очень интересно！Смотрю и ощущаю это время ,как время тотального счастья.Веет детством от фильма.Жизнь размеренная,ценность человека и его труда чувствуется.

[@ЕленаПотешкина-х2к]

thank you, this is a wonderful movie

[@chunkygroove9038]

Amazing! I love the way these highly skilled craftspeople almost seem like machines with their incredible precision & attention to detail.

[@rubenruiz2138]

Wonderfull!!!

[@tatibetathy]

How wonderful!!! Love pottery. Love. Wedgwood

[@kathleenswift7979]

Such a shame it's all gone .

[@deepabgl]

this is the father of modern work.

[@janicebrowningaquino792]

This was lovely, thank you for posting!

[@andrewbullock5101]

sadly all gone now

[@jeromestarkey5927]

Watching this relaxes me greatly. Simpler times. I very much would of liked to live in an English village and travel the train to work at Wedgwood.

[@minecachair]

I always get irrationally irritated that there isn't a letter "e" after the "g" in Wedgwood.

[@МаринаПрокопенкова-г6ч]

Какая красота!

[@charlesandrews6643]

Looking at these videos makes me think we haven't advanced much from the past technology

[@Teddy_Bass]

I guarantee a-lot of those skills are gone for ever

[@zinzolin14]

I'm a lover of Wedgwood's crafted ceramics, I use a Queensware cup and saucer every day on my home desk (it's in this video!) . I'm glad to see we're still employing the same techniques today, still with human craftsmanship.

[@chrisingle5839]

And you cant even give this stuff away nowadays.