Letterpress Printing Vocational Film (1947)

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16 жыл бұрын

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

Пікірлер: 29

@billm.2677 5 ай бұрын

Been my entire career. Letterpress, offset lithography, flexography, rotogravure, printing inks. Still strong in 1975. Many things are gone in 2024. Items of the craft are largely carried on by hobbyists today. No one who wants a future would seek this industry out today. Top wages earned today exceed the union wages of the most elite craftsmen of the late 70’s.

@scotthays294 6 жыл бұрын

So interesting for me to watch. My grandfather worked as a typesetter/lino man in Waco and Greeley Colorado for about 40 years from around 1926-1960-1970. I was the youngest of the grandkids so never got to go see what it was he did. He loved the job, so it is great to watch this. Also interesting to see that it was on a vocational film. Not that this wasn't a huge job industry, but we tend to forget how important it was.

@lawnking168 15 жыл бұрын

i have been in printing for 31 years, and started on a letterpress. one of my first jobs was working in a older shop. so i rember alot of the equipment in this vid. those guys really earned the pay!!!

@zincalloy2213 3 жыл бұрын

"The Compositor is THE Superior Being" . . . my mate had that hung above his Frame . . . upset no end of printers . . . great days 😉

@flyers1jt 12 жыл бұрын

That's awesome....

@mzw 14 жыл бұрын

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

@AnbuAnbu-yy7zf 3 жыл бұрын

1972 my grandfather start a printing business with letter press machine

@AndrewAnonymous 15 жыл бұрын

awesome.

@johnconnolly3791 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@adrianivanhoelunaochoa 2 жыл бұрын

increible video, maravilloso mi oficio

@Rahulkumar-rv2rx 3 жыл бұрын

Love u awesome work 😏😃

@huuvihanhdung510 Жыл бұрын

video hay good

@johnconnolly3791 Жыл бұрын

Vertical mehlie polymer plates the future

@1947dodgewf32 12 жыл бұрын

The printing industry was an awesome place to work years ago. The last 15 years its all but dried up. The computer helped it and then hurt it very bad!

@perfectperson214 4 жыл бұрын

My dad used to resent computers passionately because of what they did to this/his profession. He worked for newspapers anywhere he went as a member of the printers union or something like that. He retired as a letterpress man running a dying company after he had to partner with it when his operation could no longer sustain itself. Cheers