Saturday, August 4, 2012

Linotype as a Vocation

Well, not THESE days. But I love these old career films.



You know I may have posted this and one or two more this time last year...

3 comments:

  1. Interesting look back in time, and these were the days where apprenticship was necessary!

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  2. I wish linotype was still around.
    It's become difficult to find good alloy anymore.

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  3. My first real job out of college was assistant production manager in a graphic arts plant. We did mostly multi-color offset, but there was also silkscreening, letterpress, and die-cutting.

    This On Demand Printing has been a real game changer, not to mention the Internet.

    [And, what with the Civil Rights Act, the gender-specific language in the narration of that film would never cut it today.]

    Thanks for the memories.

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