Archive Watch

To Inform and To Serve (1950)

1950 · Ephemeral film · 13 min

Synopsis

The production and distribution of a daily newspaper in Buffalo, New York.

Uploader's description on archive.org

Details

Running time
13 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Not About the RCMP · Spuzz · 2016-07-18

This is another of the curious mass of films that Newspapers trotted out to let them know how good they are. This film focuses more on actual newspaper production, so that was fun, watching a bygone era of steel plates, proofreaders all having eyeglasses, and typwwriters.