Letterpress Printing Vocational Film (1947)

ILLUSTRATES THE OPPORTUNITIES & TRAINING AVAILABLE IN THE FIELD OF PRINTING. SHOWS HAND TYPESETTING, LINOTYPE, MONOTYPE, DISPLAY, MAKE-UP & LAYOUT.

Vocational film about careers in the printing industry.




Stock shots:
giant newspaper presses letterpress: composition; presswork; bindery work; linotype operators; monotype machines;
cylinder presses; handpresses; offset presses; high speed rotary presses

Voiceovers:
"Hand composition offers the opportunity for individual expression."
"Large plants employ people, usually women who do nothing but proofread."
markup man, composition man, pressmen

Zero = first title

00:00 Newspapers on printing presses
00:31 Shelves of books
00:32 Hands holding open Bible
00:35 Hands examine business documents
00:42 Printing presses; montage of printers and presses
01:29 Typesetting and composition
02:56 Linotype machines
03:40 Monotype machines
04:38 Document being proofread; women proofreaders
05:28 Various printing presses in operation
07:28 Vocational students studying for printing apprenticeships
07:54 Students in classroom
08:00 Teenagers at printing presses and Linotype machines

Category:

Education

Tags:

• letterpress
• printing
• monotype
• linotype
• typesetting
• layout

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[Serfbord]

@lawnking168 I hope you weren't a compositor. The proof reader would have had a fieldday with your typing, lol

[Serfbord]

Very interesting and takes me back many years. I did pick up a mistake that the commentator said when talking about the Linotype. He said that anyone familiar with a typewriter would assimilate well when operating a Linotype. In fact the Linotype had a completely different keyboard layout to a typewriter. It was the Monotype system that used a QWERTY keyboard.

[stuckerj1]

@TacoCondor12 My first paycheck was working with my dad in a print shop. I'll take today's speedy "digital production" jobs any day.

[milo066]

@whistlingfrank MCMXLVI, isn't XL 40 and VI 6 ?

[boilerbob7]

The guy at 9:05 screwed up. We were taught to NEVER put the plane face down to keep from picking up something that would scratch the type or plates.

[boilerbob7]

This really brings back memories. The industry took a major hit when offset printing and computer typesetting took over.

[mzw]

we used a hand press alongside our modern stuff every day until a few years ago :)

[TacoCondor12]

how our industry have changed: from a labor intensive one that assured people of their jobs to one that emphasizes on speed and digital production at the expense of jobs for the glorification of profits.

[bursonej]

I think this video is amazing. Our print production class really enjoyed it. We learned so much.