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Director
  
Bert Haanstra

Screenplay
  
Bert Haanstra

Country
  
Netherlands

7.8/10
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Genre
  
Documentary, Short

Music director
  
Pim Jacobs

Duration
  

Glass (film) movie poster

Writer
  
Bert Haanstra (scenario)

Release date
  
1958

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, BAFTA Award for Best Documentary

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Glass 1958


Glass (Dutch: Glas) is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The film is about the glass industry in the Netherlands. It contrasts the handmade crystal from the Royal Leerdam Glass Factory with automated bottle making machines. Short segments of artisans making various glass goods by hand are joined with those of mass production. It is often acclaimed to be the perfect short documentary.

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Glass (1958 film) Wikipedia
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