Learning Typesetting

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William Alexander

18 жыл бұрын

An introduction to Typesetting - 1959

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@crunk_lean 10 жыл бұрын

Why are these instructional videos from the first half of the 20th century always so amazing?

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

It was a lost art.

@mmbmbmbmb 10 жыл бұрын

What a gem! A wonderful trade 'swallowed' by the need for producing faster ... faster ... and faster still. I consider myself lucky to have owned a beautiful oak-drawer with a brass handle from a renowned Austrian newspaper ... which I meanwhile passed on to my grandson, who put it up on the wall of his room, displaying in it his most prized possessions :o) Thank you for sharing this great film!

@jpsmith81 14 жыл бұрын

This makes me appreciate page layout software like Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress. This was definitely a skill as well as an art!

@TheDrumChannel 14 жыл бұрын

I have to agree - I can't believe they used to make newspapers like that - can you imagine.

@Heksu77 14 жыл бұрын

Watching videos like this teaches one to respect old books...

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

There was real craft there.

@lauriemcmullan500 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your excellent tutorial. Just as I was taught as a 16 year old apprentice compositor during the 60s.

@WilliamAlexanderJr 3 жыл бұрын

Here's another one! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKldnq6lvNPZmps.html

@jesuszamora6949 3 жыл бұрын

This looks like the biggest pain in the ass ever. Much love to those who did this and kept books and papers printing in the early days of mass-printing.

@listohan Жыл бұрын

I think it would be the back that took the strain.

@jesuszamora6949 Жыл бұрын

@@listohan You ain't wrong.

@danielkrajnik3817 9 ай бұрын

My exact thought

@colinrynne4537 5 жыл бұрын

Holy hell.....thank god for the Linotype machine!!!!

@richardbarton2709 11 ай бұрын

Monotype, Intertype, Ludlow.

@seniorpz1969 2 күн бұрын

so they had to do this for every line in a newspaper article? makes me appreciate the automatic processes we have today.

@wildreign 11 жыл бұрын

I would have sucked at this! Much RESPECT!

@charzar4626 2 жыл бұрын

Feels weird stumbling upon something like this in 2022

@MrDeadsnott 12 жыл бұрын

I will never complain about Microsoft Word again!

@captainkeyboard1007 2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft Word has been my springboard. I like using the microcomputer and color laser printer better than all other methods of writing or printing.

@wilarguello1598 2 жыл бұрын

....la tipografía ...aaaa Mi oficio. Dios eterno, darnos siempre trabajo en la imprenta.

@ronwoodfifty 13 жыл бұрын

Newspapers were set on Intertype or Linotype machines. Hand setting was used by the jobbing printers for business cards, letterheads, invoices etc.

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

Smaller print shops would do that. There was always a business for local shops, schools and whatever to use them.

@listohan Жыл бұрын

Except course before Intertype or Linotype machines, there were still newspapers. And reflect of how they are being displaced despite by communications that do not finish up on paper.

@richardbarton2709 11 ай бұрын

I do not suppose there are many of us left that did a 5 year apprenticeship in hot metal composition a true skill and craft but dirty ... those were the days.

@Je.Suis.Flaneur Жыл бұрын

Mark Twain's first jobs were as a typesetter for his brother, Orion Twain.

@kreativepulp8760 4 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone dislike this video?

@dereklatham6800 3 жыл бұрын

i used to be a comp in 1969

@azwarrior3149 Жыл бұрын

awesome

@rnman99 10 жыл бұрын

Been there, done that...

@NoReplyAsset 3 жыл бұрын

finally, actual manual typesetting video, not one of the digital Adobe """typesetting""" videos.

@idaliakulik 6 жыл бұрын

This looks so tedious and boring... I can't imagine having to do this day in and day out again and again... I know that some people might enjoy this and I think even I could grow to enjoy this process but on the whole I'm glad that things have sped up considerably and this is no longer necessary.

@bobyvipin8220 6 жыл бұрын

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@captainkeyboard1007 2 жыл бұрын

This manual typesetting shown in the picture gives me an exhortation to appreciate the microcomputer and computer (laser) printer. The main thing I have to do is just type or keyboard my work.

@listohan Жыл бұрын

Not to mention Copy and Paste.

@jesuszamora6949 Жыл бұрын

@@listohan Being able to correct on the fly.

@captainkeyboard1007 Жыл бұрын

@@listohan Also, electronic documents and files can be edited in many and flexible ways. The conventional methods consisted of cutting, splicing, copying documents and printing copies. In most cases, several people were needed to produce perfect copy to do several tasks on one specific job. With the microcomputer, only one computer, one person, one printer, even one scanner to master to do all the tasks with apply the applications with several software programs. Also, that person plays an important role as an end-user. A document or file can be handled in several ways and thus be stored as archives, without aging and fading away. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.

@captainkeyboard1007 Жыл бұрын

@@jesuszamora6949 @Richard Ure Also, electronic documents and files can be edited in many and flexible ways. The conventional methods consisted of cutting, splicing, copying documents and printing copies. In most cases, several people were needed to produce perfect copy to do several tasks on one specific job. With the microcomputer, only one computer, one person, one printer, even one scanner to master to do all the tasks with apply the applications with several software programs. Also, that person plays an important role as an end-user. A document or file can be handled in several ways and thus be stored as archives, without aging and fading away. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.

@Hoolysegoo 12 жыл бұрын

That would suck so much if he dropped that box all over the floor...

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

There's a movie where someone had that happen.

@billm.2677 5 ай бұрын

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