Bob Banford discusses sharing his paperweight-making methods with an early video. Oral history interview with Bob Banford by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, December 19, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:14.

Bob Banford: Well, as I said when I started, nobody would give you any information at all. Later on, I was the first one, now, I’m not sure what year it was. My memory’s a little fuzzy on this. I know it was before we had a paperweight convention in Boston, and I don’t remember what year it was, but home video had just—was in its infancy and you could actually get video equipment you could use in the home. And I shot a black and white video of the making of a lampwork paperweight from start to finish, where you would learn the different techniques to make the rods, to make the parts for the flower, to make the flower, to put the flower together. And then to encase it. And I made a video that was probably condensed, but probably about 40/45 minutes long that showed all the different steps. And I showed it to people. Vic [Victor] Trabucco was just starting to make paperweights and he came to the Boston convention. He watched the video, a lot of, a lot. I showed it basically to anybody that wanted to watch it.