Nails (movie)
- User score: 7
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Phillip Borsos
- Production companies: ONF | NFB
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/1979
- Run time: 13 min.
Movie description
This Oscar-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing on how nails are made, we first see a blacksmith laboring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene then shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.
