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Los Angeles Times Newspaper Film "A Newspaper Serves Its Community" Free Press 66904 (1959)

1959 · Short film · 12 min

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This color educational film is about how a newspaper is made in a community. It was made by Gary Goldsmith Films in cooperation with the Los Angeles Times. This was made in 1959 since the Dodgers/Cardinals home opener was this year and is shown in the film on the sports page. A room of reporters type at their typewriters. An editor assigns a reporter and a photographer to a job. On an airport tarmac, a reporter interviews a man while the photographer takes pictures. A baby elephant is taken off a plane and brought down a ramp. The elephant is sitting off the plane. A picture of the elephant is developed. A United Press teletype machine prints out a story. A reporter takes it and reads it. A picture of the baby elephant arrives via another machine sent from India. The reporter puts paper in his typewriter. He starts typing (:06-2:38). The reporter works. Other reporters at their desks write other stories. A secretary opens the mail - it's a comic strip. The reporter is done with his story and ands it as the photographer hands his picture of the elephant. One editor hands it out to the makeup editor. The makeup editor does a newspaper breakdown on a piece of paper. A copyreader checks the stories for errors. The finished story is rolled up and placed into a tube. The tube is then put into a pipe that sends it to another part of the building. In the composing room, the tube is opened and the story prepared for printing. A machine sets the story in metal type, one line at a…

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Running time
12 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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