Ingenious for it's time 😮

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

How did one know what the character organization is for lower case letters? Be Careful Driving Elephants Into Small Foreign Garages Zorro Let My Name Hang Over Your Picture Window Veronica Upchucked Through A Ring

Why does this feel like a wes anderson film

Cute!

5:49 that is so beautiful

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.

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

Amazing to watch this. Thanks.

The most amazing machine that man has made!

I like my machines stuffed with asbestos!

Mitxela sent me.

Thanks for posting!

Excellent and explicit demonstration of linecaster operation. 😋

Very Cool Indeed.

Worst job ever

Feels weird stumbling upon something like this in 2022

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.

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.

Wow A Big Boy

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

That was wonderful, I enjoyed every minute. Thanks so much for sending to me!

Mind-blowing

Thanks for posting these.

Fantastic.

i used to be a comp in 1969

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

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.

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

Why would anyone dislike this video?

nice

Al Green will make you do that! Cute and good taste in music!

Thank you so much! Just the right detail for step by step I needed.

बेवकूफ बोल नहीं रहा है

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

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.

it's a 1000 cc

Obsolete

Did you ever sell it?

way too cheap!

Rad music

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!

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

Been there, done that...

tienes un numero telefonico para poder llamar y comprarla

The price is listed in the ad, but seeing as it's over two years old, I somehow doubt it's not been sold already ;-)

hey man im interested in the bike... how much?? thanks

I would have sucked at this! Much RESPECT!

Was that a ghost at :12? ;)

Hey. I'm participating in the National History Day competition and would like to use part of this video in my documentary. Could you give me the exact details on where and when u made this video? thanks.