Print Production
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- Date
- 1969
- Length
- 22:30
- Description
Starting out with the funkiest song the late 1960s could create, the film shows a fashion photo shoot for the title screen of the film. It shows all of the processes involved in making the final print including photography, laser scanning, platemaking, printing, and trimming.
The film features the printing of The Wall Street Journal in California showing the way that the articles are transferred using phone, microwave, and paper-punch tape. All forms of printing are displayed from small, letterpress jobs to printing on pharmaceutical drugs and packaging for toothpaste.
Beginning at 17:41, there is a five minute “music video” (for lack of a better term) for printing that has the grooviest pan flute and beats you’ve ever heard. Worth watching just for this!
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- Title
- Special to the Times
- Date
- 1982
- Length
- 22:10
- Description
A film created by The New York Times to show how the newspaper goes from idea to printed product in 1982. With A.M. Rosenthal as the Executive Editor, they show the meeting of editors and leaders of different parts of the newspaper deciding what goes on the front page.
The film also features foreign corespondents and photographers covering the 1982 war between Israel and Lebanon and PLO refugee camps. The Washington D.C. Bureau is shown to demonstrate the depth of experience and knowledge of the reporters and photographers.
The editorial staff is shown deciding on the often-controversial editorial articles published. Many other departments of the newspaper are shown including the financial section, arts critics, police reporters, city reporters, architecture section, etc.
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- Date
- 1965
- Length
- 26:12
- Description
“George Malone sees the world through many windows” but the window that allows him to see the most is his daily newspaper The New York Times. The film tracks back the history of the newspaper and relates it to “today” in 1965. It shows the many departments and people involved in creating one of the most well-known newspapers in the world.
There is an extensive display of the various foreign offices in London, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Bombay, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. The end of the film shows the production process and schedule for printing a new edition every day.
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- Date
- 1976
- Length
- 19:02
- Topics
- Description
“Where does print come from?” is the question asked at the beginning of the film and it attempts to show the process of printing from press to final product. Using a few of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Graphic Communications Through the Ages” series of oil paintings, the film shows the history and technological improvements of printing.
A simple explanation of offset-lithography is given along with views of large, web presses, bindery techniques, and paper making. Created by the Printing Industries Association of Texas, the film ends with a pitch for people to join the printing industry and get jobs that will eventually become high-paying and skilled.
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- Date
- 1940s
- Length
- 11:30
- Description
This silent, black & white training film was created for The Lakeside Press in Chicago, Illinois. Using title cards, the film shows the step-by-step method of properly assembling hand type in a composing stick, kerning, display line composition, initials, cutting leads and slugs, spacing, and proofing.
This is a great film for learning the basics of hand composition for letterpress printing.
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- Date
- 1950
- Length
- 12:09
- Topics
- Description
A very easy to understand and simplified explanation of how printing began. The film starts with the beginning of writing and continues to tell the story of printing including Gutenberg, punch cutting, iron hand presses, hot-metal type casting, high-speed rotary presses, and newspaper production.
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- Date
- 1950s
- Length
- 28:50
- Description
This film, created by Horan Engraving, shows the entire process of photoengraving. Starting with taking a photo, it shows camera work, engraving, etching, plate preparation, touch-up, zinc & copper plates, one-color process, four-color process and more.
If you want to learn how a photograph becomes a printing plate and a final print in a newspaper or book, look no further.