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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ย. 2024

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  • @mmbmbmbmb
    @mmbmbmbmb 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a gem! A wonderful trade 'swallowed' by the need for producing faster ... faster ... and faster still.
    I consider myself lucky to have owned a beautiful oak-drawer with a brass handle from a renowned Austrian newspaper ... which I meanwhile passed on to my grandson, who put it up on the wall of his room, displaying in it his most prized possessions :o)
    Thank you for sharing this great film!

  • @jpsmith81
    @jpsmith81 14 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This makes me appreciate page layout software like Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress. This was definitely a skill as well as an art!

  • @Heksu77
    @Heksu77 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Watching videos like this teaches one to respect old books...

  • @lauriemcmullan500
    @lauriemcmullan500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for your excellent tutorial. Just as I was taught as a 16 year old apprentice compositor during the 60s.

    • @WilliamAlexanderJr
      @WilliamAlexanderJr  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here's another one! th-cam.com/video/nC-kKtWmujg/w-d-xo.html

  • @MoneySavingVideos
    @MoneySavingVideos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am here for a refresher course.

  • @TheDrumChannel
    @TheDrumChannel 14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have to agree - I can't believe they used to make newspapers like that - can you imagine.

  • @jesuszamora6949
    @jesuszamora6949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This looks like the biggest pain in the ass ever. Much love to those who did this and kept books and papers printing in the early days of mass-printing.

    • @listohan
      @listohan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it would be the back that took the strain.

    • @jesuszamora6949
      @jesuszamora6949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@listohan You ain't wrong.

    • @danielkrajnik3817
      @danielkrajnik3817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My exact thought

  • @colinrynne4537
    @colinrynne4537 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Holy hell.....thank god for the Linotype machine!!!!

  • @wildreign
    @wildreign 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would have sucked at this! Much RESPECT!

  • @charzar4626
    @charzar4626 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Feels weird stumbling upon something like this in 2022

  • @MrDeadsnott
    @MrDeadsnott 13 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I will never complain about Microsoft Word again!

    • @captainkeyboard1007
      @captainkeyboard1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Microsoft Word has been my springboard. I like using the microcomputer and color laser printer better than all other methods of writing or printing.

  • @seniorpz1969
    @seniorpz1969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so they had to do this for every line in a newspaper article? makes me appreciate the automatic processes we have today.

  • @wilarguello1598
    @wilarguello1598 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    ....la tipografía ...aaaa
    Mi oficio.
    Dios eterno, darnos siempre trabajo en la imprenta.

  • @ronwoodfifty
    @ronwoodfifty 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Newspapers were set on Intertype or Linotype machines. Hand setting was used by the jobbing printers for business cards, letterheads, invoices etc.

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Smaller print shops would do that. There was always a business for local shops, schools and whatever to use them.

    • @listohan
      @listohan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except course before Intertype or Linotype machines, there were still newspapers. And reflect of how they are being displaced despite by communications that do not finish up on paper.

  • @Je.Suis.Flaneur
    @Je.Suis.Flaneur ปีที่แล้ว

    Mark Twain's first jobs were as a typesetter for his brother, Orion Twain.

  • @richardbarton2709
    @richardbarton2709 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do not suppose there are many of us left that did a 5 year apprenticeship in hot metal composition a true skill and craft but dirty ... those were the days.

  • @NoReplyAsset
    @NoReplyAsset 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    finally, actual manual typesetting video, not one of the digital Adobe """typesetting""" videos.

  • @kreativepulp8760
    @kreativepulp8760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why would anyone dislike this video?

  • @billm.2677
    @billm.2677 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How did one know what the character organization is for lower case letters?
    Be Careful Driving Elephants Into Small Foreign Garages
    Zorro Let My Name Hang Over Your Picture Window
    Veronica Upchucked Through A Ring

  • @dereklatham6800
    @dereklatham6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i used to be a comp in 1969

  • @rnman99
    @rnman99 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Been there, done that...

  • @idaliakulik
    @idaliakulik 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This looks so tedious and boring... I can't imagine having to do this day in and day out again and again... I know that some people might enjoy this and I think even I could grow to enjoy this process but on the whole I'm glad that things have sped up considerably and this is no longer necessary.

  • @captainkeyboard1007
    @captainkeyboard1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This manual typesetting shown in the picture gives me an exhortation to appreciate the microcomputer and computer (laser) printer. The main thing I have to do is just type or keyboard my work.

    • @listohan
      @listohan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not to mention Copy and Paste.

    • @jesuszamora6949
      @jesuszamora6949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@listohan Being able to correct on the fly.

    • @captainkeyboard1007
      @captainkeyboard1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@listohan Also, electronic documents and files can be edited in many and flexible ways. The conventional methods consisted of cutting, splicing, copying documents and printing copies. In most cases, several people were needed to produce perfect copy to do several tasks on one specific job. With the microcomputer, only one computer, one person, one printer, even one scanner to master to do all the tasks with apply the applications with several software programs. Also, that person plays an important role as an end-user. A document or file can be handled in several ways and thus be stored as archives, without aging and fading away. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.

    • @captainkeyboard1007
      @captainkeyboard1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jesuszamora6949 ​ @Richard Ure Also, electronic documents and files can be edited in many and flexible ways. The conventional methods consisted of cutting, splicing, copying documents and printing copies. In most cases, several people were needed to produce perfect copy to do several tasks on one specific job. With the microcomputer, only one computer, one person, one printer, even one scanner to master to do all the tasks with apply the applications with several software programs. Also, that person plays an important role as an end-user. A document or file can be handled in several ways and thus be stored as archives, without aging and fading away. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.

  • @Hoolysegoo
    @Hoolysegoo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That would suck so much if he dropped that box all over the floor...

  • @_rmaze_quiambao5215
    @_rmaze_quiambao5215 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Obsolete

  • @Sean-me4fv
    @Sean-me4fv 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Worst job ever