How Printing Ink Was Made in 1919

Extra, extra. A fire is still burning when the reporter leaves it to telephone the story in, and the paper is on the street before the bells stop ringing. That is the boast this 1919 Ford film opens with, and then it spends seven minutes showing you the machinery that makes the boast true. It is the Detroit News, and the chain is complete. Copy prepared at the editorial desk. A Linotype operator working a keyboard like a typewriter while the machine casts a line of lead behind it. A stiff cardboard matrix pressed over the type and dried. Cylindrical stereotype plates cast from the matrix and clamped to the press. Then a battery of presses delivering four hundred and thirty-two thousand newspapers an hour. The numbers keep coming and they are the best part. Half a ton of ink every twenty-four hours. Seventy-five tons of paper a day, each roll weighing fifteen hundred pounds and running six miles. Then the film relaxes. Newsboys boxing on the pavement with a policeman refereeing while they wait for the baseball edition. The colour press where Mutt and Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids come from. Reporters playing tennis on the roof. Women at a long table taking want ads over the telephone, promising to find somebody's dog. What you see newsboys, a baseball game, a warehouse fire, a reporter phoning it in the editorial department at work Linotype keyboards and lines of lead, close up matrix making, drying and inspection stereotype plates cast and clamped to cylinders presses running, cutting, folding, counting, conveyors, loading the colour press, the want ad room, and the roof The print WHEN BLACK IS READ. Ford Motor Company, 1919. Held by the National Archives, identifier 99298. Presented at 720x480, the resolution of the scan. Source: https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-2451 Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0. No credit is required. We give one anyway. About this presentation The picture is the archive print, never re-encoded. Hibrkraft adds a title card, a closing card and a music bed fifteen loudness units under the film. This one is silent, so the bed carries it. Kunjungi website kami untuk informasi lebih lanjut di https://hibrkraft.com/ Follow media sosial kami di IG:   / hibrkraft   TW: https://x.com/hibrkraft #linotype #printinghistory #newspaper #detroitnews #1919 #hotmetal #stereotype #silentfilm #archivefilm #hibrkraft