Traditional glass decorations made in Germany

(19 Dec 2009)
Lauscha, Gernany, December 17th 2009
1. Wide shot church and houses of Lauscha
2. Medium shot glass blowing shop of Michael Haberland
3. Close up glass blowing shop of Michael Haberland
4. Tilt up Christmas tree
5. Close up Santa Claus figure hanging on Christmas tree
6. Close up angel figure hanging on Christmas tree
7. Close up bird figure on Christmas tree
8. Close up snow man and elephant figures hanging on Christmas tree
9. Pan down shelf with Christmas figures in boxes
10. Close up snow man and bird figures
11. Wide shot Michael Haberland heating up glass for an angel figure
12. Close up heating up of glass
13. Close up Michael Haberland mouth blowing an angel figure
14. Close up Michael Haberland mouth blowing
15. Wide shot Michael Haberland creating angel figure
16. Medium shot silver coating of angel figure
17. Zoom in to silver coated angel figures
18. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Haberland, Glass blower:
"Our products are not mass produced. Many products that you can buy in hard-ware stores and department stores are produced on a large scale by machines. Our products are made with help of old, nostalgic moulds and a lot of clients recognise that. Many older people say that our products look like the products from former times."
19. Medium shot Marina Weber painting angel figure
20. Close up painting of angel figure
21. Close up Marina Weber
22. Close up painting of angel figure
23. Various Marina Weber painting angel figure
24. Various decorating of angel figure
25. Medium shot of finished angel figure
26. SOUNDBITE (German) Marina Weber, Art painter:
"I put the sampler on my table and then I chose the colours I need. Then I start painting according to the sample. The difficulty is that my piece has to look exactly like the sample and sometimes like here with the bird beak it is not so easy to paint it exactly the same way like the sampler looks like. That really is the hardest"
27. Pan display of Christmas figures
28. Close up row Christmas figures
29. Close up snow men figures
30. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Haberland, Glass blower:
"At the moment we use about 200 different moulds. Santa Clauses, snow men, angels and birds. Birds are our specialty. I started making christmas decorations in 1991, before I worked as art glass blower. I was lucky to find the moulds of my grandfather and great grandfather after the Berlin wall came down. So I decided to change my work and work with these moulds that are around 80 years old."
31. Close up mouth blown birds
32. Tilt up mouth blown Santa Claus
33. Close up mouth blown angels
34. Pan of "Farbglashuette" shop in Lauscha
35. Medium shot of display of mouth blown birds
36. Close up mouth blown birds
37. Close up Santa Claus figures
38. Various shots shop
LEAD IN
No Christmas tree can be complete without a colourful set of baubles.
In one small German town mouth-blown glass figures using traditional moulds from 80 years ago are a speciality.
STORYLINE
Nestled deep within the southern part of the Thuringian Forest is the worldwide famous glass-blowing town of Lauscha.
The tradition of glass blowing in Lauscha dates back approximately 400 years, when the town was founded.
Many items for everyday life, such as ink wells and small bottles were produced here.
As demand for these products faded in the nineteenth century, new products such as glass-blown lamps were developed.
Around 150 years ago the glass-blowers started to create glass pearls made into pearl chains and small ornaments, like fruit cones, for their Christmas trees.
Afterwards the figure is painted.

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