How Books Are Made (Movie from 1947)

[chevalier]

How Books Are Made (Movie from 1947) via The Atlantic

[buckeye]

Curious as to the amount of typo's back in the day.

[dabob]

That was amazing . . . if we could just turn back the hands of time the unemployment problem would be gone!!! lol

[chevalier]

The book knives made me very thankful for OSHA.

[ondemandbindery]

That video is wrong at so many levels.......
That was when Printing was an art.


JW

[BarbWPP]

Amazing how they just blew right by the proofreading!!

Curious as to the amount of typo's back in the day.

[acacia print]

Awesome, historical. It amaises me how efficient the old methods were, pumping out books that fast.
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Then count the differences you see.. the biggest is ....where the hang are the people??? 1 man!

[dabob]

Curious as to the amount of typo's back in the day.

I don't think it could be any worse than today . . . have you looked at the web lately?????

[acacia print]

I don't think it could be any worse than today . . . have you looked at the web lately?????

My thoughts exactly. Kids cnat spowl deez da'z unlez its n text langwidg... and forget about proof reading just hit the send button!

[dephotoman]

How Books Are Made (Movie from 1947) via The Atlantic

Thanks for sharing! Having been a former printer, typesetter and bindery machine operator, it brought back fond memories.