Making Books in 1947
Many closeups of book-making machines.
Tells the complete story of the mass production of books & the human talent & machine technology needed for book making in 1947. Explains every process from author's manuscript to finished book.
Making Books. Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1947.
When I was resisting growing up in Pittsburgh, there were three daily newspapers. My father worked for the Pittsburgh Press, the #1 paper at the time. Last time I was in Pittsburgh, I was driving through town on the way to where I was going...and there was the Press building of happy memory. And the sign on the building said "Pittsburgh Post Gazette." The number 3 newspaper when I was growing up and the last standing apparently but there is another...I think. But Schumpeter's "Creative Destruction" appears to have been at work.
If you mosey to Toronto, there are...4? 5? maybe more daily newspapers. When I arrive, I hit the machines and hurry to a quiet place to read them. Of course, at a hotel there are no cats so you can read the papers without dealing with cats sitting just exactly where you are reading.
Those large presses. I think the brand name was Morgenthaler. Not sure but they were huge.
That was fun.
My parents both worked in newspapers and after I came along, she stayed home and he worked for a large, metropolitan newspaper. No, not the Daily Planet.
Many is the time I went by the paper and watched the machinery that made the newspapers many of those machines looked like those in the film. Certainly the Linotype machines. Fascinating machines. The presses were multi-story, huge, and when they were running, the earth shook.
You have reported on fake books and now making real books. How about paintings of books? This came from the Solari Report and the author discusses painting largely. Or those are the ones I read, I guess. Some of these show a love of books through a different medium.
Food for the Soul: For the Love of Books
By Nina Heyn
https://food4thesoul.solari.com/2025/04/17/food-for-the-soul-for-the-love-of-books/