Recherche dans la collection - Medalta Potteries : A National Historic Site

CABLEVISION MEDICINE HAT

1990-0434

Vidéo

1 of 1

1990

C-10 Productions

director/editor, Brian Gale; script, Paul McClusky

Program chronicling the history of the Medalta Potteries factory which was in operation from 1912 to 1954 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Through a series of archival photographs, a brief tour through the partially restored plant with a former employee and pan shots of the "beehive" kilns, we learn that Medalta Potteries prospered by producing and selling thousands of crocks for food and beverage storage from the one pint size to the 10 gallon size. After diversifying during the war by producing everything from sewer pipes to tea pots, Medalta made thousands of tableware items for the Armed Forces and switched to hotel ware before the downtown in business and the eventual abandonment of the plant in 1954. In 1967 when Medalta Potteries was declared an Alberta Historic Site, a concerned group of supporters envisioned the pottery being restored to a working museum. In 1985, the pottery was designated a National Historic Site and the restoration work began in earnest.

English

Libre

V1 9605-0012

with written permission from C-10 Productions, 101 Carry Dr. S.E., Medicine Hat, Alberta T1B 3M6