Wedgwood Today (1950)

No documentation for this item WEDGWOOD TODAY A small reservoir with a factory in the background (it is the 18th century Wedgwood Works). Track through the disused factory building, with abandoned machinery and broken windows. MS wooden machinery wheels. (The narrator speaks of the skill, care and craftsmanship of the Wedgwood workers throughout the last two centuries, and today, the old essential skills have been combined with modern techniques to create ’Wedgwood Today’) Cut to CU the wheel of a shiny sports car which pulls up outside the new Wedgwood building. CU the blue and white pottery in the window. MS the design room with a designer at his drawing board. He’s surrounded by designs, drawings and examples of finished pottery. Various shots men at the potters wheel decorating the china. CU a potters wheel as a pot is formed. Various shots as the camera pans around workers preparing clay and throwing pots. CU the various stages of pot making. Filling moulds with liquid. Undoing the