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New Zealand’s National Film Unit presents ‘Weekly Review no. 413' (1949)

INDUSTRY - FROM POTTER'S WHEEL TO MASS PRODUCTION
Preparing the clay and manufacturing crockery in New Zealand's largest pottery works. Intimate shots of skilled hand-work and of automatic machines in operation.

Credits
Producer - Stanhope Andrews
Supervision - Production - Cyril Morton
Technical - Geoffrey Scott
Camera & Direction - A.W.E. Bailey
Editing & Commentary - James Harris
Sound - Claude Wickstead
Narrator - Briton Chadwick

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