Mitxela sent me.

Ingenious for it's time 😮

5:49 that is so beautiful

Mind-blowing

Thanks for posting!

Fantastic.

Thanks very much for this and the second part: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7hdjMp2rdeyYWw.html . I guess from the newstand's magazine and cars that the film was made about 1960. I was looking for a photo or video of a slug of linotype, and here we see one and many of them, as part of a complete explanation of the linotype process, with diagrams interspersed with actual machine operation. I don't understand how individual matrices are made to move into one of two positions for roman or italic. I had broadly understood the proportional spacing system, but never seen the actual mechanisms. I did not know that it was possible to manually insert matrices other than the 90 types selected by the keyboard. I vaguely knew of driving the machines from paper tape, but had never seen an explanation of how the tape was read or prepared, in this case entirely mechanically, including somehow accumulating the width of the characters and minimum proportional space widths. This seems to be a product of Fairchild Graphic Equipment Inc. which was a division of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company - which was the parent company Fairchild Semiconductor, which spawned the semiconductor industry. I have seen a linotype machine, but never seen one working. I have a 1215 page Mergenthaler "Specimen Book of Linotype Faces" from the late 1930s.

Why does this feel like a wes anderson film