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Willie Duff talks about the use of a bookpress.

'This is a small individual bookpress. It can take small volumes of paper to be pressed or books....

Willie Duff talks about the working roles available for women in the printing industry in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project be...

Apprentices at T & A Constable

Willie Duff talks about apprentices at the publishing house T & A Constable.Edinburgh City of Print is a joint proj...

Willie Duff talks about the establishment of Napier College of Printing.

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums...

Part One. This film shows the workshop of Speedspools at Gayfield Place in Edinburgh in 1996. Harry McIntosh talks about the process of producing ...

Part Three. This film shows the workshop of Speedspools at Gayfield Place in Edinburgh in 1996 and identifies the printing machines that were used ...

Part Two This film shows the workshop of Speedspools at Gayfield Place in Edinburgh in 1996. Harry McIntosh talks about the process of producing a...

This film shows the workshop of Speedspools in Edinburgh in May 2009. Harry McIntosh shows his method of typesetting with hot metal and demonstrat...

This film was produced for the Scottish Print Employers Federation in 1991 and discusses the opportunities for those who choose to pursue a career ...

This film was produced for the Scottish Print Employers Federation in 1991 and discusses the opportunities for those who choose to pursue a career ...

From Pencil Layout to Printed Page - part three

This film produced by the Scottish Studios and Engravers Ltd shows the print production process of ...

From Pencil Layout to Printed Page - part two

This film produced by the Scottish Studios and Engravers Ltd shows the print production process of an...

From Pencil Layout to Printed Page - part one

This film produced by the Scottish Studios and Engravers Ltd shows the print production process of an...

This promotional and advertising film shows the work of Ariston Elka factory in Dresden and checking of print machinery before despatch. The film ...

This film shows the work of Ariston Elka factory in Dresden. The film shows the print production process including the creative arts studio, photo...

This promotional and advertising film shows the work of Ariston Elka factory in Dresden. The film shows the production and testing of Ariston Elka...

This promotional video shows the production process involved in publishing a local newspaper. The paper is the Kent and Sussex Courier. However, ...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

You were a very close-knit group. Very seldom did people leave and go somewhere else. If someone went somewhere else for another job, it was quit...

Harry McIntosh discusses how the monotype composition caster operates.Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and...

Harry McIntosh talks about the evolution of printing technology used in his Edinburgh typesetting firm Speedspools.

Edinburgh City of Print is a...

First years training as an apprentice was really just watching somebody and doing something. Ahm, you, you sat beside a Journeyman and you just wat...

In actual fact in those days, its like the shipyards, you had to have somebody to speak for you. Eh, very, I mean fathers got their sons in, and eh...

I tell you how they did it. You see the school that I went to, they had eh, connections with eh, Nelsons. And they put forward like as, as we wer...

But I mean Nelsons, I was there say about 17, just over 17 years and it was, it was a cracking place to be. Everybody grizzled about different thi...

And it, so there was a great camaraderie in Nelsons at the time. A, a bit of rivalry to of between the book binding section and, and eh the rest o...

And there was a tremendous amount of that kind of intermarriage. I dont know, I dont know if it was more prevalent in the printing trade more than...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIR...

This film shows an annual trip / wayzgoose of employees of Inglis Papermill on the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.

The notion of annual paid holidays...