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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-733, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) Assemblage of rough-outs, cloth-plastered pieces, tools, and other workshop materials. 2) Workman digging hole in which vessel is placed to be drilled, placing of the vessel, assembling the brace and drill, and drilling the piece. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-734, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) Using a sandstone polisher. 2) Chipping off a cloth-plastered vase. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-725, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) Drilling with brace, of vase planted in ground. 2) Filing rim of low bowl braced against peg. 3) Polishing of vase with sandstone polisher (lengthy sequence). 4) Last footage is of filing of interior of flat bowl. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-736, described as 16mm workprint film. Applying wax to finished pieces; these have been heated in bread oven prior to waxing. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-729, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) General view of workshop activity. 2) Assembling brace with a large blade for hollowing-out of vase, and a sequence of drilling out of vase. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1970.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-740, described as 16mm workprint film. Continued from roll #19 (26-739). Views of the Temple of Karnak. Also a view of Thebes from the Winter Palace Hotel balcony. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-728, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) Applying cloth to glue/dust rough-out (the rough-out is plastered with this mixture). 2) View of a rough-out and a glue/cloth-covered one, together with glue can and other tools. 3) General view of workshop from neighboring roof-top, zoom in on individual workmen. 4) View of the Gurna hills behind the workshop. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-722, described as 16mm workprint film. 1) Shaping and polishing vase with file. 2) Sheik picking rough piece into basic shape, zoom to Sheik's face. 3) Working shaping/polishing another vase form. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-737, described as 16mm workprint film. On the western plain of Thebes. Various views of a saqiyah (waterwheel) in operation. Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-739, described as 16mm workprint film. At the Temple of Karnak. Includes a view from atop a pylon at Karnak, looking toward the hills of Gurna. Continues onto roll #20 (26-740). Film project totals 1300 feet of film across 22 rolls (26-721 to 26-742). Filmed by Thomas R. Hester and John A. Graham, UC Berkeley, January 1972.

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