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Join our Facebook fan group. www.facebook.com Svengali Pilot Episode 3 is a twelve minute special. Follow Dixie as he gatecrashes a live radio show at The Foundry. The full series of SVENGALI is now available FREE on iTunes. Our cast this episode features Jonathan Owen, Roger Evans and Sean Harris playing photographer Anton Blair. The episode was shot during the recording of Tracey Moberly’s weekly radio show for Resonance FM. Guests on Tracey’s show this week are Alan Mcgee, A&R man Brian Horse, ex-Libertines Carl Barat, ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead, Goldie Lookin’ Chain’s Maggot, Gavin Bain and his band Hopeless Heroic. Hear the full story of Dixie’s invasion as it happened on The Late Late Breakfast Show, Tuesday 5th May at 8pm on Resonance 104.4 London or www.resonancefm.com. www.facebook.com We are indebted to the Merthyr Media Project for their camera equipment and generous support. Svengali series crew: camera operators – Jonathan Bloom, Adrian O’Toole, John Evans. Sound Mick Duffield, Production Assistant Alex Ashman. Edited by Paul Endacott on Final Cut Pro. The series is semi-improvised around scripts written by Dean Cavanagh. Directed by Philip John. Produced by Burn After Listening.

The venerable firm of Mackenzie & Harris, established in 1915, is the oldest and largest type foundry for letterpress printers in the United States. Also known as M & H Type, it offers traditional lead typecasting and Monotype composition as well as hot metal fonts. This tour, part of an A&E Open Book show, takes viewers through the foundry and into the pressroom of Arion Press where the type is impressed into paper. The tour features an interview with Lewis Mitchell, who has been casting type at M & H for over 50 years. This is part two of the show; the first part can be viewed at: www.youtube.com For more information about M & H Type see: www.arionpress.com

How to make a casting from making the sand mould to the finished item. The video has been edited to fit the 10 minute time limit of You tube. It takes much longer than this!

This will be a multi part video on foundry pattern making. A wooden pattern is used to make an impression in the sand mold. A silica sand core is inserted to produce the cylinder bore in the casting. A wooden pattern of the cylinder is turned on the Clausing lathe.

This will be a multi part video on foundry pattern making. A wooden pattern is used to make an impression in the mold. A sand core is inserted to produce the cylinder bore in the casting.

A short video showing how the sand is prepared for use.

The venerable firm of Mackenzie & Harris, established in 1915, is the oldest and largest type foundry for letterpress printers in the United States. Also known as M & H Type, it offers traditional lead typecasting and Monotype composition as well as hot metal fonts. This tour, part of an A&E Open Book show, takes viewers through the foundry and into the pressroom of Arion Press where the type is impressed into paper. The tour features an interview with Lewis Mitchell, who has been casting type at M & H for over 50 years. This is part two of the show; the first part can be viewed at: www.youtube.com For more information about M & H Type see: www.arionpress.com

This will be a multi part video on how to make a split foundry pattern . A wooden pattern is used to make an impression in the sand mold. A silica sand core is place in the mold produce the cylinder bore in the casting. The wooden pattern of the cylinder is turned on the Clausing lathe.

Showing how wooden patterns are made to make greensand moulds.

Join our Facebook fan group.www.facebook.com Svengali Pilot Episode 3 is a twelve minute special. Follow Dixie as he gatecrashes a live radio show at The Foundry. The full series of SVENGALI is now available FREE on iTunes. Our cast this episode features Jonathan Owen, Roger Evans and Sean Harris playing photographer Anton Blair. The episode was shot during the recording of Tracey Moberly’s weekly radio show for Resonance FM. Guests on Tracey’s show this week are Alan Mcgee, A&R man Brian Horse, ex-Libertines Carl Barat, ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead, Goldie Lookin’ Chain’s Maggot, Gavin Bain and his band Hopeless Heroic. Hear the full story of Dixie’s invasion as it happened on The Late Late Breakfast Show, Tuesday 5th May at 8pm on Resonance 104.4 London or www.resonancefm.com. www.facebook.com We are indebted to the Merthyr Media Project for their camera equipment and generous support. Svengali series crew: camera operators – Jonathan Bloom, Adrian O’Toole, John Evans. Sound Mick Duffield, Production Assistant Alex Ashman. Edited by Paul Endacott on Final Cut Pro. The series is semi-improvised around scripts written by Dean Cavanagh. Directed by Philip John. Produced by Burn After Listening.