Glas

Via the Dish, Robert T. Gonzales highlights the above short film:

This is Glas, a 1959 Oscar-winning short subject documentary by Bert Haanstra about glass making, and it is the most mesmerizing thing you'll see today.

The film is notable for a number of reasons, but what caught my attention was how effectively it contrasts the meticulous, method-based craftsmanship of the glassblowers with the automated processes of the bottle-building machines. It's an especially powerful comparison, considering that glass blowing remains widely practiced to this day, even after decades of global industrialization.

It reminds me of this Stella ad:


Meanwhile, Newcastle mocks Stella's emphasis on the "chalice":