From the "you don't know how easy you have it!" department:
If you've been around the printing, publishing and typesetting industry for more than a few years, you'll appreciate the following 2 videos. If you are a relative newcomer to the industry, you could benefit from watching these, both to get a feel for how far the industry has advanced in the last 60 years, and to learn a bit about how early typesetting and page makeup worked. Many of the typesetting and layout terms that we use today have their roots in this era.
Enjoy!
Making Books, a film from 1947 about the book making process
Your Life Work: Printing, also from 1947
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1 comment:
Wow - cool, but also a bit sad. Look how many people it took to get the book printed. That's a lot of jobs lost to technology, but would you want those jobs today? Extremely repetitive and boring, by our standards.
And, I know it was the times, but I winced when he called the men "men" and the women "girls" twice.
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