RD/TW/6/17 - 'Touching Wood', film by Mike Dibb

RD/TW/6/17

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'Touching Wood', film by Mike Dibb

2005

1 DVD
1 Videorecording

Dibb, Mike

Contains two copies of this film by Mike Dibb of RD at Walnut Tree Farm, 8/2/05.

RD talks about the girth of oak trees and how oak and chestnut are used in the farmhouse at WTF. Filmed in the garden and in the house of WTF. RD discusses amateur wood sculptures; how gothic arches were formed by bending sapling ash into an arch (he shows an example of this on his property); fire and how he sees it as the beginning of human culture; and East Anglia being the main area which grows the cricket bat willow.

Informal film. Quality is not good, a bit fuzzy. 1 video cassette [RD/TW/6/17/1]; 1 DVD [RD/TW/6/17/2]; (ca. 13 min.) + 2 DVD copies.