FILM REVIEWS
The 1956 film “The Ten Commandments”starred Charlton Heston as
Moses from the Bible. At one time, as a Jewish slave in Egypt, he
was shown building with mud. This was a very Hollywood version of
such work, as what was shown was the use of a very wet, sloppy mix,
and so the conditions portrayed were very messy. Such a mix could
have been used for mud mortar, but not for the mud bricks which were
the subject of the work in hand. The mix for bricks needs to be wet
enough to be malleable, but not so wet that its splashes about. The
mix for mortar does need to be wetter, however, in order for it to
fit around the bricks to make a homogeneous whole.
The
2005 film “The New World” starred Christian Bale as Captain John
Smith who married Princess Pocahontas on the east coast of the USA
when Europeans first settled in that country. Once the village was
established, there are scenes in the film showing the cottages in
which people lived, which look like correct portrayals of
mud-and-stud cottages. It is known that some of the earliest
immigrants were from Lincolnshire, and it is being established that
they brought their own building technique with them – namely
mud-and-stud ! In the film it was quite striking to see people going
for a stroll around the village, in the Puritan dress of the time,
with these cottages around them.
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