Letterpress Printing Vocational Film (1947)

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