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One Weft Double Cloth

The crafts of macrame, metal work and ceramics.
Series : Outlook | Year : 1974 | Total Duration : 14 Minutes | Producer : Malcolm Otton
Director : James Coffey |
CUs pairs of hand acting out weaving superimposed over opening titles and woven images. CUs woman's face and eyes superimposed over tilts and pans of weavings. Slow zoom to weaver Mona Hessing tending cottage garden then zoom to her in room weaving with images of eyes and hand mimes superimposed.
Access No. 136776 | 3 mins 2 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom in to vine covered cottage with long woven or macrame pieces hanging from porch. Zoom to weaver Mona Hessing walking amongst flower bed of tall sunflowers. Zoom to Hessing weaving long freeform sculptural piece and ECU eye superimposed on scene. CUs pairs of hand acting out sewing or weaving superimposed over woven images.
Access No. 136795 | 56 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Pan across bush and zoom into bush rocks with CUs of bark tree trunks superimposed across scenes. Fade into CU of embers and flames of open fire with images of hands working loom and man's face superimposed. Images of Blacksmith Marcus Skipper forging metal in flames superimposed over CUs of embers and fire.
Access No. 136796 | 1 min 20 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CUs metal piece (belt buckle or jewellery?) and candlestick with CU of eye superimposed. CU white hot metal being hammered and CU of blacksmith Marcus Skipper's face with beads of perspiration as he works. Zoom to timber cottage to bearded man playing guitar seen through broken window. Collage of metal working imagery and zoom to open door of cottage with large portrait of man playing guitar on wall.
Access No. 136797 | 1 min 23 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS elevated brick house in low light. Zoom to blacksmith Marcus Skipper hammering metal in space under house. ECU man's eye. GS candlestick with image of metal being hammered superimposed. Track through darkened house interiors lit only by several candelabras. CU over circular pottery dish with circular images spinning and potter's face superimposed over them.
Access No. 136798 | 1 min 19 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU pans over circular pottery images set in cracked clay and various other CU pans and tilts of ceramic sculptural forms with more superimposed over them. Zoom out to potter Peter Travis sitting at wheel creating circular patterns on spinning clay. CU of spinning circular patterns changing. ECU piece of clay with cracks visible. Fades in and out between cracked clay and rock shelves on beach with image of hands kneading superimposed.
Access No. 136799 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Low angle shot of standing potter Peter Travis throwing slab of clay. CU to cracked slab. Fade to montage of sea shores and rock platforms. Zoom out from coiled sculptural ceramic piece to CU of Travis painting circles on clay piece on wheel. CUs of circular patterns spinning and superimposed over others. Zoom to waves lapping over rock shelves.
Access No. 136800 | 1 min 2 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Tilt to star shaped kite in sky with other shapes attached seen through occasional sun glares and from various distances. Zoom out to LS figure on distant hill flying it. CU over ceramic dish with circular forms on it and images of hands with paint brushes superimposed. Tilt from sky down past waves to ceramic forms sitting on rocks by sea
Access No. 136801 | 57 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Zoom to colourful kite in sky and fade to MS Peter Travis on ground controlling strings. WS Travis on hilltop flying kite.
Access No. 136802 | 37 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |