A look inside the production of a newspaper in the 1970s. Some of this equipment was still in use when I started in newspapers in 1986.
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@julieldeshazo4 жыл бұрын
Caught a 3 second shot of my dad at 14:39.... he's been gone for over 5 years so this was a precious moment.
@stacysanborn25583 жыл бұрын
That is awesome. I am so glad you got to experience that.
@macylauren33873 жыл бұрын
The one with his back turned?
@ssnoc3 жыл бұрын
Wow - I’m sure he enjoyed his job, we all did 👍
@jennylear60952 жыл бұрын
OH Wow! that is awesome!! My Dad worked in the composing room up until about 1980. when the Paper shut down.
@Luhk3on102 жыл бұрын
💙🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@justyp2 жыл бұрын
I worked for the st.Petersburg times for 38 years. 1973 to 2012. I was 19 when I started. It was a great job for a high school kid to move into the middle class, much like auto workers in their prime years! Then there was Craigslist. But technology wins. Thanks for uploading these!!! Paul
@vergilmemes45510 ай бұрын
Nice
@ImGoingSupersonic18 күн бұрын
There was Craigslist in the 1970s paper?
@dermathze7004 ай бұрын
That process is so much more fascinating than I expected, despite it being a literal everyday process. I don't know what I expected, but not that they remold the plates everyday with lead.
@magg91139 ай бұрын
It's amazing how complex it seems to be, yet they must have done this with ease and amazing speed, considering many newspapers put out 2 issues per day!!!!
@zakur0hako Жыл бұрын
This is insane. I didn't expect it to be that complex. And that considering they were already using some computers
@ImGoingSupersonic18 күн бұрын
It is wild. But it's the 1970s of course they had computers. You must be young.
@stepno11 жыл бұрын
Good historical look at the transitional time in shift from hot metal through photocomposition on the way to cold-type digital composition. Paper "dummy" sheet for design. Pneumatic tubes still carried copy between floors of the building; perforated tape was the interface to typecasting machines. Shows copy camera with halftone screen; photomechanical process of photoengraving images... zinc and acid, gloves and fumes... vocabulary: literally "locking-up" a page; origin of "stereotype" etc.
@Ezinma88 Жыл бұрын
So interesting to see how it used to be done and how many trades could be learnt.
@harleybiker1692 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the production end of The Jackson (TN) Sun. Very familiar scenes. Thank you!
@davemail2 жыл бұрын
So many processes and special machines to get ink on paper, to get information before eyes. I still remember the sound of the newspaper landing at our front door in the morning. I live in San Diego, and today the grand edifice that once housed our local newspaper (San Diego Union/Tribune) is now being repurposed for other activities. The paper still exists, but is owned by NantCapital, the same group that owns the LA Times.
@54upchuck11 ай бұрын
I started working as a pressman 1972 retired 2020
@MartinFroland6 ай бұрын
Lovely. Worked at Danish national newspaper Berlingske Tidende from 1985. They left hot metal the year before.
@keyikush Жыл бұрын
Its amazing to see how the printing technology evolved
@RandoWisLuL Жыл бұрын
its too bad this died. in high school, i took 3 years of print. I loved working the small press we had. It was just big enough to do school newspapers( and also big enough to take your arm off) We used to do newspapers, pamphlets, and all kinds of other things like ads and such..We used the newest(at the time) LaserJet sheet velums as plates that could be printed off the laserjet in a sheet and attached to the rollers. so no steel plates needed for most projects and new plates could be made in minutes. We also had a screen-printing press to we also did t-shirts. I was really good at it and even won an award for it. But by the time i graduated, most newspapers were going out of business or going online. Its really too bad, i would have loved a career as a press operator. There is still screen printing but thats so easy and there isnt as much money in it and its definitely less dangerous and complicated. Operating a printing press is an art really.
@tommoso552 жыл бұрын
I used to be a van boy on the London evening news
@Retfie7195 ай бұрын
With due respect - 13:31 - someone employed to touch the top of each newspaper stack lol. in sunglasses. Doesn't seem to be efficient but the whole process is amazing whatsoever
@Kenkamerman Жыл бұрын
Rodney Dangerfield... " What a nightmare..." everything had to be rewritten in the composing room.
@dogbirdgun Жыл бұрын
We used a Gestetner printer. Perforated paper stencil, wet ink. Hand crank to start, flip a switch to run a batch. Try to keep your hands clean!
@hartfilms20075 жыл бұрын
How would the process be different in the 1950s? Perhaps some of the automation was a later development but would the same printing press have been in use?
@15Redstones Жыл бұрын
The text would've been typed directly with the keyboard of the hot metal typecasting machine, without going through the tape step.
@rycka88 Жыл бұрын
The process isis complicated
@arifian461610 ай бұрын
Amazing goss newsliner machine
@luisarturotiquiransinay55757 ай бұрын
El sistema tipografico nunca lo conocí, solo oí acerca de el.
@daryoushgharibzadeh475811 ай бұрын
Very nice I worked lithograhy Best wishes ❤
@aaroncharlesworth408 Жыл бұрын
Was that The San Jise Mercury News headquarters at the opening sequence?
@CollectingCardboard4 ай бұрын
From (at least) the 10:00 mark, on....virtually _NOTHING_ has changed....from the production, reel, & mailroom ends of things...over the last _FIFTY-PLUS YEARS_ !! With...perhaps, the exception of the fact that the manpower has been whittled by about (literally!!) 80-90%! I'm a pressman at the newspaper that *Tony Soprano* used to have delivered. In the mid-80's, there were 120+ men on the markup. Today,...we have _less than_ 25, and they're looking to cut the number down by 3 more.... _BEFORE THE END OF APRIL_ ! I'll be lookin' @ "early retirement", soon,...and I'm _NOWHERE_ near [realistic] retirement age....lol.
@jasonindus Жыл бұрын
The old way of making toilet paper
@nodnarb1520 Жыл бұрын
Now the youngsters will know why the Press is called the press. LOL
@NHX610 Жыл бұрын
So much lead....!
@ronniedelahoussayechauvin67173 жыл бұрын
I was only 2 years old in 1970.
@justyp2 жыл бұрын
I just turned 19 in 1973 when I started at the st.Pete times…good luck to you!!!