NFB Collection
Metal Workers
19759 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Robert FortierDonald Winkler
Production: Tom DalyRick RaxlenColin Low
A mixture of ethnic music and traditional skills, this film sweeps to Mexico, India, Nigeria, and Dahomey, where craftsmen pound, tap, grind and fire metal into jewelry, figurines and objects of all sorts. Without words.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Arts and CultureOccupations and Work
- Crafts > Blacksmithing and Metalwork
Credits
- director
- Robert Fortier
- Donald Winkler
- producer
- Tom Daly
- Rick Raxlen
- Colin Low
- camera
- Michel Thomas-d'Hoste
- sound
- Claude Hazanavicius
- Ken Page
- editing
- Robert Fortier
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei