Fred Daden and Tony Kuepfer at Inglewood, March 1977
In March 1977, English glass gaffer Fred Daden came to Inglewood, Taranaki, at the invitation of Tony Kuepfer, where he spent a month showing Tony the finer points of studio glass technique. Fred Daden blowing at Inglewood, March 1977: a screen capture from the film During its archiving project, two reels of colour 16mm film were located by NZ Society of Artists in Glass amongst the files of Mel Simpson, a founder of NZSAG and formerly Lecturer in Glass at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University. At that stage, Mel was not sure what the film showed. The two reels were joined into one and transferred to DVD, to make it more accessible, but since there is no sound, no titles and no credits it wasn't until it was shown at the NZSAG Conference in Auckland in October 2016 that it was recognised for just what it was. Auckland glass artist Peter Raos was at Inglewood in 1977 and also at the 2016 Conference, and he at once recognised it. Stuart Park, glass blogger, also knew tha...