Newsday on Long Island Part 1

This 50s film profiles Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, and how it was rising to meet the challenge of a population explosion on the island that was part of the overall flight to suburbia that was going on at the time. There's a brief, but historically interesting, section on Levittown, and an extended and quite fascinating segment on how the paper was printed, back in the old days of metal type. Mostly, this is a great film about Long Island in the 50s, about suburbia, and about newspaper publishing at the time. Not much is surprising, but this is a solid film with lots of historical value.

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• island
• ny
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• newsday
• typesetting
• history

[UTAOUB]

NEWSDAY's FILM REVIEWS were the best!  I havent lived in NY since 2005, (worst mistake I ever made....moving! My heart's still there, though!) -- so I don't know if you still have them, or have made a book of those great reviews. (Funny, explanitory, well-written, and....funny!) I haven't found any Newsday movie review books.....please have them, and sell them! Everyone will want to buy these pithy, funny reviews! : )

[RandomThoughts9ew65]

It's amazing to see how they produced the paper BEFORE computers.

[johnsmdm]

it's amazing, white Long Island vs Newsday..it's a crazy time..hopefully there's a cooling off period..