Printing Through The Ages

Printing Through The Ages Encyclopaedia Britannica Boy on floor cutting potato to use as print block. Seal pushed into wax. Inking seal to make stamp. Chinese block prints. 04:25:41 Man making block prints on roll of linen or cloth for a repeat pattern. 04:25:59 Costumed printers making playing cards. Printers using large press to imprint on paper. Monk scribing words into a wood block. 15th Century men reading; Man writing w/ quill. 04:27:04 door opens to reveal printing workshop of Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany w/ employees. Opens locked cabinet to show multiple bibles, opens & turns pages of bible. CU 04:28:26 Man cutting wood block letters. 04:28:42 Man at work bench making metal castings of letters; making impressions w/ matrix then filling mold aka mold to make cast letters. Lines of movable metal type. 04:29:54 Animated diagrams of letters from written form. Europe map showing location of presses. Men printing newspapers w/ lever press; cast iron press. Mechanical inking rollers spreading ink over type. 04:31:38 Diagram showing evolution of presses to high speed presses. CU of presses. CU London Times; announcement of Koenig’s printing machine acquired in 1814; CU press. Man setting type in flat page, tissue & blotting paper made deep impression, then mounted in casting machine & molten metal used to form half cylinder & mounted on drum of press. Diagram showing operation. 04:33:36 Papermaking machine making rolls of paper instead of single sheet. Diagram showing use of roll paper in printing machines. Various machines in MS & CUs. 04:35:04 Typesetter typing & CU of monotype machine. Linotype machine shown. Large bank collating magazine pages for binding; 1950 newspaper press. 04:35:50 Large London railroad station interior w/ newspaper kiosk in center & benches w/ passengers sitting waiting. Others walking, buying magazines & newspapers. The End. GOOD. Industrial Revolution; 1950; 1940s England; Publishing; Books; Duplication; Duplicating; History; Historical; Workers; Educational Film;