NHPBS Presents
Neo-Typesetters
Special | 11m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Just under fifty years after The NYT transitioned from typesetting and classical printing.
Just under fifty years after The NYT transitioned from typesetting and classical printing to computerized layout, the presses remain operable. At a pastoral print shop in Midcoast Maine, this award winning documentary interviews a gentleman who experienced the end of the industry as well as a younger woman who found printing in the modern age and continues to keep the form alive.
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NHPBS Presents is a local public television program presented by NHPBS
NHPBS Presents
Neo-Typesetters
Special | 11m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Just under fifty years after The NYT transitioned from typesetting and classical printing to computerized layout, the presses remain operable. At a pastoral print shop in Midcoast Maine, this award winning documentary interviews a gentleman who experienced the end of the industry as well as a younger woman who found printing in the modern age and continues to keep the form alive.
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[metal clanking] [mechanical whirring] [metal clanking] [metal clanking] - Okay.
- Everyone is aware of the time, for the century of the Linotype machine is nearing its end.
As Sunday, July 2nd, 1978 marks the last day of an age old method of printing in this composing room.
[faint crashing] [metal clanking] [mallet pounding] -The pressure of one ton per square inch is forced upon the cardboard.
[keyboard clacking] -These seasoned printers, retrained, have made the transition from the old to the new.
[keyboards clacking] [door squeaks shut] [metal clanking] [birds singing] [wood scraping] [box clunking] [tools shift] [tools shift] [metallic clinking] [metallic grinding] [metallic shifting] -Over the years as the counselors came in I, [footsteps] [matrices shift] [metal tool shifting] -Print at my sleepaway camp, it's mostly like little like greeting cards [humming] [brayer rolling on plate] they really began to thrive and then obviously [metal shifts] [block clacks on plate] [shuffling] [blocks shuffling] [metal clanking] [metallic shuffling] [metal clanking] [metal clanking] [metal clanking]
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