Not exactly what you are looking for, but there is a very nice documentary titled TYPEFACE about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. It is set to be released shortly. For more information about the film, go to: http://typeface.kartemquin.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vicki Nesting Assistant Director St. Charles Parish Library Destrehan, Louisiana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- On Thu, 5/6/10, CAPLAN Victoria F <[email protected]> wrote: > From: CAPLAN Victoria F <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Videolib] looking for video docs on printing > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 9:34 PM > Hi Maureen, > > I searched WoldCat and found these: > > Commericial Printing from Video Education America (VEA) > http://www.veavideo.com/Product.aspx?id=390 > > > Films.com has a video about the book industry > http://ffh.films.com/id/10509/Book_Industry.htm > > and printing > Behind the scene - printing > http://ffh.films.com/id/3238/Behind_the_Scenes-Printing.htm > > The Guild of Book Workers has a video on paper-making (but > it may be > rather on the craft scale than industrial) > http://www.guildofbookworkers.org/resources/videos_standards/videoorder.pdf > > Good luck, > > Victoria > HKUST Library > > There's some stuff for free on the web. > Newspaper printing > http://science.discovery.com/videos/machines-printing-press.html > > > Has anyone seen anything in the documentary > area, or industrial film > > area, that would take us inside a printing plant where > books are > manufactured? > > The ideal film would show something about paper > making, and then, inside > the printing plant, a web press and a sheet fed press, > folding of > signatures into pages, gathering of signatures into the > book block, > printing the cover or jacket, and gluing or sewing the > cover on. While I'm > on the industrial kick here, a similar question: We could > use > a > > film on how digitally driven warehouses work. At the > Ingram and Amazon > warehouses, for instance, where millions of titles are > stored, the fork > lifts are robots that can pick and pack titles for > bookstores. Our > publishing faculty would love to see something like that! > > > > Maureen Tripp > > Media Librarian > > Iwasaki Library > > 120 Boylston Street > > Boston, MA 02116 > > [email protected] > > (617)824-8407 > > > > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively > discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, > acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving > video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the > list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well > as a channel of > > communication between libraries,educational > institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively > discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, > acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of > current and evolving video formats in libraries and related > institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an > effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a > channel of communication between libraries,educational > institutions, and video producers and distributors. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
