Movie on how the Linotype machine worked

Old “hot type” journalists will remember fondly these Rube Goldberg devices. Younger journalists will probably wonder how in the world we ever got a paper out with such technology. You know, Gutenberg was setting type letter by letter in the late 1400s. I read somewhere that he would not have felt terribly out of place in the composing room of the 1950s.

Enjoy.

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