Willie Hoppe, Three Cushion Billiard Champion during an exhibition. Officers and dignitaries at a billiards table with cue sticks in hand. Willie Hoppe in the center. Willie Hoppe takes his first shot. People watch him play. He teaches a lady officer. Another woman takes a shot. Officers and dignitaries clap. Billiard Champion exhibits his performance. Officers and dignitaries keep their caps on the table and the champion plays his game.
Credits for the documentary titled 'Creative Hands' about mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. Background info about earlier handicrafts as an important part of civilization. Hands of a woman working on a wooden hand loom. An artisan sculpting a swan in clay. A person working clay on a potter's wheel. Scene change to New York City and busy areas of Manhattan, with pedestrians outside the Rockefeller Center in New York watching ice skaters. Women do window shopping. Crowd of people in a line outside a broadcast studio entrance in the RCA building. Marquee on the building advertises "Invasion Preview" and "Robert Benchley". Scene change again to farming areas in the mountains of southwest North Carolina. Animated map of United States. Wide views of farmland and a house in Brasstown North Carolina. Men cut a tree for lumber using a two man saw. Teacher at John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown helps farmer to develop creative ideas using local materials. A sign reads "John C Campbell Folk School Handcrafts." Farmers walk with their materials and are seen seated at a table of the school showing some of their handicrafts. They are taught creative ideas by the teacher.
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.
Mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. A man uses discarded pieces of iron for some creative purpose. A man at a blacksmith shop uses creative ideas for making a candle stand. A man shapes a piece of iron with hammer. He gives it a shape of a flower. He melts the iron ring by burning it so that he can stick the joints. A melted iron rod is shaped. The parts made separately assembled. Various kind of candle stands.
Mountain handicrafts demonstrated in North Carolina. Wool obtained from sheep in highlands. Sheep in barn. A woman boils flowers, roots, bark and hulls of black walnut to dye the wool. She puts the wool in boiling water for dyeing. The wool is dyed in red color. She dries the wool on string. Woman weaves woolen clothe on a loom. Geometrical designed woolen cloth..
Mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. A man ties a horse to a wooden log. A man carves a wooden horse. An old man outside a hut carves different wooden animals. The ideas come from the farm where they live. A man makes wooden pigs. He is giving proper shape to one's ears. A young boy does the same work. Jackknife is the main tool for carving. A girl makes design of rabbit on a wooden piece. She carves it with a jackknife. Different wooden animals placed on a table.
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