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Nails

Nails

| 13 min

This Oscar®-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing on how nails are made, we first see a blacksmith laboring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene then shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.


Credits
  • director
    Phillip Borsos
  • executive producer
    John Taylor
  • photography
    Ron Orieux
  • sound
    Ralph Parker
  • editing
    Raymond Hall
  • re-recording
    Barry P. Jones
  • music
    Michael Conway Baker

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