Letterpress Printing Vocational Film (1947)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- 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
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.
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!!!
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.
"The Compositor is THE Superior Being" . . . my mate had that hung above his Frame . . . upset no end of printers . . . great days 😉
we used a hand press alongside our modern stuff every day until a few years ago :)
Brilliant
1972 my grandfather start a printing business with letter press machine
increible video, maravilloso mi oficio
Love u awesome work 😏😃
video hay good
That's awesome....
awesome.
And now all that knowledge, skill, machinery, and other equipment is redundant, and a whole industry has gone out the window.
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!
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
The worker at 8:57 screwed up. You always lay the planer on its side, not face down where it could pick up flakes of type metal, scratching the type.
Vertical mehlie polymer plates the future
@whistlingfrank MCMXLVI, isn't XL 40 and VI 6 ?
@TacoCondor12 My first paycheck was working with my dad in a print shop. I'll take today's speedy "digital production" jobs any day.
How could they print the paintings or cartoons?
Woodcut or etched zinc blocks
"rich and poor alike"
Amazing how people thought about class even in the mainstream. Now we all have to pretend there are no classes.
THe press at 5:55 is not a Letterpress.
The intro card to the film just mentions printing. It covers a variety of processes.
That’s why the narrator says it’s an offset printer
This is bad quality it is 2020
This video is from 1947. It’s high quality for that time period.
@@dolcepress1 I know but I was joking (it is still bad)