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My Dad had a typesetting company back in the 70's-90's, I remember as a kid going there and seeing 5 Linotypes all chattering away, even then it was amazing to me! Saying that he did have me cleaning the molten lead off space bands with graphite and a razor blade as something to do, as a 12yr old I'm not sure I enjoyed that bit!😄

Wow. This is machine porn, absolutley stellar. I once was imprisoned and worked in their printing shop, I worked a Heidelberger press that was absloute filth when I started at it. One day I took the colour distribution rollers apart to clean, I put them on the bench as I took em out. My lovely co workers came and changed the order, I didn´t note it so I had to go by feel. Took me some time but I got them all in order back in. That was important, if wrong the coulour gets distributed uneven. But I was lucky, the boss checked with a feeler gauge- all good. I was happy, had learned something and a clean machine together with some respect ´cause I made it.

The genius of the mind was limited only by technology. Imagine these people were given all resources they need to fly to the Moon.

Am I the only one that pictures Martin Molin and his next Marble Machine casting new marbles from molten steel while it plays?

Imagine if you told Ernesto Giovanni way back in the day that someday there would be 92,000 people watching this on a computer the size of a book. I bet he'd be like wow.

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We had two linotypes in the 60,s l remember going to Birmingham Mail newspaper. Thay had a room full of linotypes at least 20. There was a central raised office they would give the typesetter one paragraph he would set it run back get another paragraph not in sequence. The article would be set in minutes As you could imagine it did not always work.

Holy moly

Worked as a Linotype Operator from 1961 until its demise 1987. Worked in Manchester England on various newspapers ie Guardian, The People, Daily Star and Daily Express. I must add the Model 48 Linotype hardly ever broke down even with the rather complicated movements. Goodbye Old Friend

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I ran intertype in 1979 in São Paulo. Take love from Brasil from Lula too ! 🚩🇧🇷

OMG The complexity of this machine. It must have required repair every 30 seconds. And making and assembling all of those parts must have been torture. A big machine that had to be made and assembled with the precision of a mechanical watch.

I used to fix coin wrappers. These were German built. The whole machine had a very simple 6 window encoder, and a couple cam assemblies. My greatest satisfaction was watching the machine roll a full fed bag of quarters and not jam. There is cadence to the machine running that sometimes sounded like “whoop there it is”. Lol

I was a linotype operator for the Scottish Daily Express. They were marvellous machines and very reliable. The days of real newspaper production.

It's okay, everyone, no need to worry about the molten lead, as there's asbestos insulation around it!

Thank you for posting the movie, covers everything from publishing a childs book to a now tabloid newspaper.

Whooooa. The way the justification works (making each line exactly as wide as the other, regardless of the length of the words) is mindblowing.

Thank you, mrpete222, Very interesting. Must have been quite the marvel back then.

To come up with the idea, then design it and make it work is more than just mindblowing. At over 100 years ago, people were still brilliant with their thinking. What needs to be shown next, is the actual printing operation. The printing presses that produced the papers from these castings are just as much a marvel as the Linotype. I remember as a paperboy in the 70s, I used to go and watch the Linotype guys making these up and also the printing press. Such wonderful technology and engineering.

I have a Linotype machine that produced a remarkable newspaper (Rainy Lake Chronicle) in the tiny town of Ranier Mn. I am hoping to see it displayed in a new boutique distillery-hotel as a historic artifact, a reminder of the complexity of the means of communicating to the masses. This film shows the incredible design and craftsmanship of a machine built more than 100 years ago that in huge way has made the digital era possible. Most people less than born after 1970 have no idea of the importance of this process that has been superseded by instantaneous global communication.

Great Video! Shout out to all retro gamers! I have the exact same monitor. I tried to connect my Sega Dreamcast to the monitor but there was no sound. Video worked fine though. How did you get the sound to work for your NES connected to the monitor? I need advice...

So glad we got rid of those pesky human typeset operators, and got the Automatic Teletype! 20,000 characters (or lines?) per hour? Holy Mackerel! For anyone interested, the hole-punch system for the teletype machine was a conceptual pre-curser to computer programming, itself. Those physical ribbon papers, with holes, inspired several people in several industries to develop code routines. With voltage, current, and magnets- instead of cams/shafts/sprockets, paper, and holes. Amazing vid, thank you for discovering it and uploading it. I will remember this for a long time.

Astonishing. Pure genius in design and build.

may i know what you use to show that announcement as second window?

But how did they print graphics, like photos and cartoons, since they wouldn't have had matrices for them?

This is a great videp etaoin shrdlu great video!

That's some fine piece of engineering there. Hope Ottmar Mergenthaler got some kind of award for that. at least a thank you.

This is such a wonderful resource, thank you for uploading! Absolutely gobsmacked at this engineering

I'm an engineer, but this is simply dumbfounding.

Some people should repair, restore, and to operate these machines. When the shtf, whoever has them rules the world!

What a glorious machine, wow!

This thing is blowing my mind. I had no idea this is how typesetting used to work. I never even thought about what came between manual typesetting and digital typesetting, even though it's very obvious that there had to be something to bridge the cap there. Thanks for the video! (Also yes I was brought here by Well There's Your Problem)

The narrator's English is so close to being perfect, and then, every few minutes, something comes along and spoils things for him.

Something anachronistic about a B/W narrated film talking about automation. At the end when the hole punch coded ribbons. No luddites talking about losing jobs.

The ending completes Franklin.

Here from the Well There's Your Problem podcast, to appreciate this lovely machine <3

The way this guy pronounces 'matrixes' makes it sound like 'mattresses' so I'm like - oh so that's where the term "put the paper to bed" must come from... This is next-level mechanical engineering, fascinating.

And I was thrilled with the, then state of the art in 1985, CompuGraphic 8200 Typesetter!

An underrated invention if I ever saw one

Amazing engineering. This device must have cost the equivalent of millions to buy. And then the training of operators and repairmen? Wow, just wow.

Is it just me or does the narrator in this video sound like the voice of King Friday on Mister Roger's Neighborhood? Honest question.

I am from japan and i already have that keyboard i just watch this for others that is this worked for others ありがとう フォロ 運ふぇ大んはあった と じゃパネせ あり鳩ううう どう無知な

blowing out the cartridge is not the thing to do, the best thing to do is clean it with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swap, i have done that with many of my games from atari 2600 to n64 and it has worked.

morgenthaler was a genius engineer who made this complicated machine step by step when the other engineers had failed to make a practical machine

Worked with one of these back in the 1970s when I was at school, in the school print works. Fabulous piece of mechanical engineering, beautiful to work with.

Please some body tell me the music on the beginning .....thanks in advance!

Yo fui muchos años linotipista y conozco muy bien esta máquina que era una maravilla. Ahora es mucho más rápido el resultado de lo que haces y más fácil de realizar pero las linotypias tenían algo de magia en los años 70. Un saludo.

I use to run one of these.

Fabulous documentary! Thanks.