Leach Pottery: St. Ives, Cornwall, England 1952 (DVD)

Format: DVD
Run Time: 49 minutes; Black & white; Silent, video only
Studio: Marty Gross Film Productions
Language: English
Dimensions: 7.5" x 5.4" x 0.6"
Shipping Weight: 0.2 lbs.

Bernard Leach founded The Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, in 1920, where he later wrote his classic: A Potter's Book. The Leach Pottery, on a hill overlooking the artist's colony of St. Ives, soon began welcoming visitors from around the world to view its unique experiment in reviving handcrafted pottery, then regarded as doomed to extinction.

In 1952, as The Leach Pottery was achieving international renown, members of the local photography club set out to show the process of pottery by producing this silent film. Here is a charming presentation of the daily activities at The Leach Pottery. We witness various stages of creation of some of the Pottery's famed standard ware, and then see Bernard Leach himself designing and completing one of his willow jars. Although there are several professional documentaries on The Leach Pottery, this locally-made amateur film now restored and released for the first time on video with the cooperation of the late Janet Darnell Leach, provides an especially intimate look at The Leach Pottery.