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Film ID | ACE137 |
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Title | Grand Feu / High Fire. Survie d’une tradition / Survival of a tradition |
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Date | 1984 |
Director | John Tchalenko |
Production Company | High Fire Films |
Synopsis | A record of the last firing of a 16th-century kiln in Puisaye, France. |
Minutes | 52 min |
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ACE137.2 (00:00:00 - 00:09:52) Map of France showing Puisaye. Travelling shot along country road. Road sign for St Amand en Puisaye, Burgundy. Buildings and an earlier photograph showing how little has changed over many years. Signs for pottery manufacturers. Town centre, potter’s yard, young man building wooden frame kiln. He is shown old photographs, and identifies one place as belonging to an old potter called Raymond Gaubier who retired in the 1960s. Another man recognises photographs of his father, born 1867, and his sister; he identifies various activities shown in the pictures and points out where they took place. The man talks about throwing a large pot. More photographs of the pottery buildings and men at work. Film of comparable activities today. Man talks about his great-grandfather (died 1867), and all his family; each generation from 1549 having produced a few potters. He shows pits in the surrounding forest where his family dug their clay, and reads part of a legal document granting rights for clay gathering. Caption: “La Millotterie kiln; built 1787, last fired 1940.” Modern pottery with pupil under instruction. Evening scenes in Puisaye. ACE137.3 (00:09:52 - 00:19:11) ACE137.4 (00:19:11 - 00:31:15) ACE137.5 (00:31:15 - 00:49:48) ACE137.6 (00:49:48 - 00:53:04) |
Full credits | Image/Camera Daniel Cavillon, Jerome Blumberg; Son/Sound Michele Caville, Francois Didio; Conseiller technique/Technical adviser Michel Bailly; Montage/Editors Annie Marx, William Diver, John Tchalenko; Direction de production/Production management Annick Demeule; Producteur exécutif /Executive producer Rodney Wilson; Une coproduction High Fire Films Ltd., The Arts Council of Great Britain, The Crafts Council, CNRS Audiovisuel, Centre National de Cinématographie, Producteur délégué/Associate producer Philippe Dussart, Réalisation/Director John Tchalenko. Nous remerçions La Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Marcel Poulet, Les potiers et les habitants de Saint Amand-en-Puisaye; Music: J. S. Bach Chromatic Fantasia BMV903, George Malcolm, Harpsichord, The Decca Record Co Ltd. © Arts Council of Great Britain 1984. © Philippe Dussart 1984. |
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ACE137.2 (00:00:00 - 00:09:52) ACE137.3 (00:09:52 - 00:19:11) ACE137.4 (00:19:11 - 00:31:15) ACE137.5 (00:31:15 - 00:49:48) ACE137.6 (00:49:48 - 00:53:04) |
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