Synopsis
Demonstrates basic principles of manual typesetting.
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Details
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Communication: Typesetting
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · The Title Tells The Story · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-07-07
A fairly dry but comprehensive film showing the tedious process of hand-setting type. The film was copyrighted on Oct. 1, 1958 but has the feel of an educational short made ten years earlier. Bailey Films of Hollywood also brought you "Grandmother Makes Bread," "I Choose Chemistry!" and "Globes, Their Function in the Classroom." Three stars for functionality.
★★★ · I-M_A_L-O-S-E-R · Spuzz · 2003-09-18
Learning to set type is one of those relics where we relish where we are now in this day and age, with nice Macs and Computers to automatically do the stuff for us. Why, in this film, it required us to get our HANDS dirty! Yes kids, setting type is not exactly clean work. You've got to find the letters, make sure they're UPSIDE DOWN and LEFT TO RIGHT (this is all explained to you) and make sure you have the right hand method for taking type out! What a relic this is.
