War Disabled Man Starts Pottery Business (1948)

Unissued / Unused material. Title reads - ’Repatriation training: Digger defies war injuries.’ War veteran Norman Wilkinson starts a pottery business. Australia. Various shots of Norman Wilkinson, a blind, deaf ex-serviceman, at work, weighing out powdered clay, rolling into slabs, fashioning vessels on a potter’s wheel and putting the vessels in the oven for baking. He reads instructions from a Braille book. M/S as he opens the oven and taken out finished pots. His assistant, another blind ex-serviceman Alan Williams takes them from him. C/U’s the vases they have made. C/U Norman’s little son hugging him. Cataloguer’s note: good story, but scratch down left hand side of film. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collec