Watch the cooper's craft MoviestoWatch. The cooper works through the demanding process of creating a barrel. Using no measuring tool other than his own eyesight, the master cooper precisely cuts the wood into staves, then bevels, shapes, and smooths and fits components.
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The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...
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A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.
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While exhibiting their crafts, the cabinetmaker, cooper, carpenter, and basket maker of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades discuss the...
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While explaining the trade of printing, this docudrama relates the importance of the printer as a communicator of news, information, and learning...
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Experience the pride and precision that went into every eighteenth-century instrument made in colonial America. Each part is handmade and carefully...
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In the eighteenth century, tradesmen passed along their skills and knowledge, the art and mystery of their trades to their apprentices. With...
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Describes the fashions of Eighteenth-Century America.
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Provides a tour overview of Colonial Williamsburg.
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Ivor Noel Hume takes viewers on a journey to several excavation sites in Colonial Williamsburg. You'll learn how experts date what they find and use...
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This is a dramatization of the color and style of clothing distinctive to eighteenth-century America. It was an age of knee breeches, full gowns,...
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You'll see the progression of wares manufactured at England's celebrated Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory between 1745 and 1769 from simple tea services...
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This is story of a typical morning of a colonial household. Filmed in restored Williamsburg, the reenactment follows a family’s household...