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A Handlist of Films Showing Printing & Typesetting CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Central Archive at the University of Reading Rob Banham A handlist of films showing printing & typesetting VERSION 1.0 APRIL 2008 Research funded by a small grant in the creative and performing arts from the AHRC. Each entry in the handlist gives the title, date and running time of the film, states if it is black and white or silent, gives the format, and places where the film can be found. All entries have a brief overview of the content of the film and for longer films a sequential summary is also provided. The films in the handlist are organised into categories following the system used for books at the St Bride Library. The index lists all the relevant films under each heading and more specific searching can be done using a keyword search of the pdf. I am extremely grateful to all those who gave films to the project, particularly Michael Passmore, who donated several films and to Carl Schlesinger, who provided copies of the many films in his own collection. Special thanks to Terry Belanger and his team at Rare Book School for allowing me to view the ‘Doc’ Robert Leslie Collection and to Nigel Roche and the staff of the St Bride Library for their assistance in organising the films into categories. If anyone can add to, or correct, the informa- tion listed, or knows of other films that should be included please let me know: Rob Banham: [email protected] | 0118 378 6399. R · Printmaking R1.1 – 1.4 Printing generally A History of printing A1 General history of printing A2 Local history of printing C Structure of the book trades C2 Trade unions C3 Social structure of the book trades C4 Printing education C5 Printing management A · History of printing A1.1 – A1.3 A1 General history of printing this list to show a pen-ruling machine in operation (the other is L8.1). Narrated by Brian Munn. A1.1 The day the universe changed: Summary printing transforms knowledge (1985) A brief history of the National Print Museum. 53 minutes, DVD 2:31 Handcasting type Producer: John Lynch 3:55 Hand composition University of Reading 4:25 The Intertype machine · keyboarding Overview · matrices falling into place BBC documentary, written and presented by James · a line being cast, slug coming from the machine Burke, about the changes brought by the invention · matrices returning to the magazine of printing from moveable metal type. The first part 6:01 The Monotype machine focuses on how society functioned before the inven- · fitting keyboards to the machine tion of printing at a time when the vast majority · brief demonstration of how the keyboard works of people were illiterate. The second part looks at · explanation of how the casting machine works and Gutenberg’s invention and the spread of printing. It shots of the caster in action briefly covers punchcutting, striking a matrix and handcasting type and shows printing on a common 10:20 Locking up a forme and proofing on an Columbian press but the interest lies very much in the discus- Press (which is incorrectly called a proofing press sion of how printing changed the world rather than and said to have been invented in 1830) in explaining how it worked. The only film in this 12:28 Printing on a Wharfedale flatbed cylinder press list to show the assembly of a travelling press, albeit 13:10 Demonstration of a John Shaw pen-ruling machine without any accompanying explanation of what is · charging the pens with ink happening. · feeding sheets of paper into the machine Summary 16:15 Printing on a Heidsieck treadle press Part 1 – Introduction discusses the use of technol- ogy in modern society and how society functioned A1.3 Communications: the printed word (1973) before the printed word. 14 minutes, VHS 15:21 Book production before printing · scribes at work Producer: Richard J. Soltys · discussion of the limited value of manuscripts RBS v4.11 | University of Reading · importance of invention of paper Overview · increased demand for writing The history of communications with the printed 26:00 Part 2 – Gutenberg and the invention of printing word from the beginning of papermaking. Virtu- 29:33 Punchcutting, striking a matrix, and handcasting ally the entire film (except the last minute) is made of slides from the Kimberley Clarke Corporation 31:07 Inking with ink balls and printing on a common ‘Graphic communications through the ages’ series press of oil paintings supplemented with others from the 32:28 Assembling a travelling press Paine Art Museum and the LA County Art Museum. 35:17 Martin Luther and the use of printing as a mass The narration contains a number of inaccurate state- medium ments and because it covers such a long period in 39:26 The printing house (shot in the Plantin-Moretus such a short space of time the film lacks depth. This Museum) and the lack of moving images means that the film is of limited value. 41:02 The spread of printing 43:00 A woodblock illustrator at work and discussion Summary of the importance of illustration · papyrus 48:30 Indexing · the roman alphabet · Charlemagne · the Diamond Sutra and printing in China A1.2 National Print Museum (1997) · papermaking in Europe 18 minutes, VHS · Gutenberg – the common press Director: Brendan Redmond · Nicolas Janson · Aldus Manutius Producer: Tom Curran and Brendan Redmond · Geoffrey Tory University of Reading · Benjamin Franklin Overview · Alois Senefelder – the pole press Film made by the National Print Museum, Dublin · William Blake showing handcasting and hand composition, Inter- · Papermaking machines type, Monotype and printing on various different · Koenig’s steam-powered flat bed cylinder press kinds of printing press. The section on the Monotype · stereotyping is particularly good and it is one of only two films in · the Franklin Press (George Phineas Gordon) · photo-engraving · the Linotype A · History of printing A1.4 – A2.1 · William Morris A1.5 Miscellaneous TV clips (c.1989) · the Monotype · Ira Reubel and the offset lithographic press 6 minutes, VHS · Frederick Goudy University of Reading · contemporary printing – this is the only mov- Overview ing film, approximately 1 minute long showing Four short clips originally shown on US television. presses, keyboards, and data storage The first shows a press printing and finishing Bell telephone books, the second the shift from hot A1.4 Printing through the ages (1950) metal to cold type at the Cincinatti Post and the final two the anniversary of the introduction of 25 cent 14 minutes, b&w paperbacks to the US by Robert de Graf in 1939. Producer: Encyclopedia Britannica Films LC: FBA 1295 A1.6 What did Gutenberg invent? (2001) Overview 30 minutes, VHS Adapted from The story of printing (not listed). A quick overview of the history of printing from use of seals Producer and Director: Ollie Tait to the common press through to web-fed rotary University of Reading presses. Overview Summary BBC documentary looking at research by Paul Early printing Needham and Blaise Agüera y Arcas into how · potato printing Gutenberg may have made his printing types. They · seals pressed into clay or wax claim that photographic analysis of Gutenberg’s · printing with a seal type cannot have been produced uses punches and · early prints matrices because different instances of the same · printing a repeat pattern on cloth character are not identical. An intriguing theory but · printing by burnishing (playing cards) the documentary doesn’t come up with any answers · printing with a press (adapted wine press) – and no other printer’s work was tested in the same · cutting text in wood way. Includes brief shots of casting type by hand and · Gutenberg’s workshop (printing on a common printing on a common press. press) Summary Handmade type Introduction discusses book production before the · punchcutting invention of printing, the Gutenberg bible, and the · striking a matrix spread of printing. · casting type 7:11 Brief description of the typemaking process showing · early printing types handcasting Hand presses 11:23 Questioning Gutenberg and early book production · iron platen presses · mechanical rollers 16:42 Photographing letters to see which come from the same masters. Questioning the use of matrices for The rotary press casting type · the flat-bed cylinder press · diagram of a flat-bed cylinder press 19:24 Printing on a common press · planing a large forme of type for a newspaper 20:05 How Gutenberg might have made his type? Discus- · tissue and blotting paper placed over forme and sions between Needham, Blaise, and Stan Nelson beaten to make flong · paper matrix (flong) fit into a cylindrical caster · rotary plate mounted around the drum of a press · diagram of a rotary press A2 Local history of printing · the continuous papermaking machine · diagram of a rotary press printing both sides of the A2.1 News in a nutshell (16/07/1936) paper 3 minutes, b&w, wmv · a rotary press in operation 887_19.wmv Hot metal www.britishpathe.com · a Monotype keyboarder and type coming off the caster (not very well explained – far too brief and Overview implies a single machine rather than separate key- Includes a story about a fire at a printing works in board and caster) Farringdon Street. · the Linotype machine · collating machine · large web-fed rotary presses A · History of printing A2.2 – A2.10 A2.2 Nuns at work (09/09/1965) A2.6 News in a nutshell (22/04/1937) 4 minutes, wmv 4 minutes, b&w, wmv 335_04.wmv 917_13.wmv Overview www.britishpathe.com Nuns at work at Ladywell Convent at Godalming.
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