Pottery
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: To maintain its world-wide reputation for quality, a famous pottery firm near Stoke-on-Trent is bringing science to its aid. Every item produced here is placed under the revealing lens of a microscope and undergoes other searching tests, and pieces not up to the very highest sstandard are sent to be smashed. As a result of these stringent tests, a ton of crockery the average housewife would be happy with is destroyed every day.
- Researcher Comments
- Title on lobby card reads "Testing Pottery".
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- England; Stoke-on-Trent; Staffordshire
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David De Keyser
- Length of story (in feet)
- 152
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- British Pathe Ltd
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How to cite this record
'Pottery', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 125, 20 May 1957. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/120386 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)