Wax (1930-1939)

Footage №68040, 2 parts, black-white
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Gans Kyurlis (Hans Curlis)
Camera operators:Valjter Tyurk (Walter Turck)

Reel №1

Apiary, bees fill the cell with wax and honey.

Pasechnik releases the frame with honeycomb, honey is evaporated through the mat, her wax remains.

Production of wax candles.

Work begins to pour wax over the vat enshrined wick yarn, layer by layer, gradually formed candle.

Master takes them to the hoop and, rolling board, gives the form.

Woman cuts on candles patterns decorates them with foil.

Selling candles at the store.

Candles in a church in front of the iconostasis.

Girl reading a book near candle, extinguish it with forceps.

Staged shots of ancient life: a woman with a candle, the maid lights the candles, candles in the chandelier.

Candles in the palace at the mirror.

Ball in the palace, ladies and gentlemen dance hall is illuminated by a chandelier with candles.

Production figures and articles of wax.

Spinning reel with wax filaments.

Master pulls the wax ribbon on a circular tube, it gives form.

Products made of wax - candles, figurines.

The girl in national costume opens the box, takes out a wax candle.

Master forms candle using whiteboard.

On the table is a cake with candles, the children sit at the table.

Christmas tree with candles.

Master pours the wax in the form of a relief.

Key words

Germany, 1930, craft, production of wax, apiary, insect, candle, palaces

Reel №2

Master takes the form of a wax embossed wallpaper with the image of elegant ladies.

A woman examines a relief depicting the carriage and sitting in her gentleman and ladies.

Master reveals the shape, gets the horse figurines on it puts the rider.

Monbijou Palace in Berlin, palace interiors.

The wax image of the Prussian princes, princes and princesses in full growth.

The wax figure of the infant with a bird on the hand lying on the couch.

Workshop of the German sculptor Joseph Torak, he is working on a monumental sculpture.

Applying wax sculptor for modeling sculptures.

Torak melts the wax in the tub, pour onto a flat sheet, cut into strips.

Plaster head is filled with wax and then the sculptor continues to work with the help of hot stacks.

Sculptural male head.

Key words

Germany, 1930, crafts, wax, architecture, sculpture, personalities

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