[GreenKeys] Films on Tape

[dmm at lemur.com]

Or, rather, films which at least in part show paper tape usage 
in teletypewriter and (tele)typesetting service.  I ran across both sources
noted here by chance recently, and thought they might be of interest.

First, on The Internet Archive there is a 1956 Western Union promotional
film, "Telegram for America":

https://archive.org/details/Telegram1956

At minute 16, it has a brief segment on facsimile transmission 
which might be pertinant to recent discussions on the list.


Second, the fellow who did the recent (and very good) movie
"Linotype: The Fim," Doug Wilson, has now set up a website to
preserve and present a number of older films that he was either
given or became involved with during the research for his own movie.
He's doing a fine job of it - going back to the 16mm originals when
he can (vs. the multigenerational VHS transfers that were the best
we had for years).  See:

http://printingfilms.com/

The star attraction of the site (to a hot metal enthusiast, at least)
is Carl Schlesinger's film "Farewell, etaoin shrdlu" - a chronicle
of the last day of hot metal at the New York Times.

As it happens, several of the films on the site document the transition
from hot metal (sometimes tape-driven) to "cold type" (that is,
photocomposition).  So for example the film "The Tactics of Tapesetting"
features the Linoquick Perforator (punching unjustified TTS tape for
later justification by computer) and the use of that tape to control
either the Linotpe Elektron (hot metal) or the Linofilm Quick
(phototypesetter).  The same film also shows the regular Linofilm
keyboard punching 15-level tape.

I could go on, but really if you're interested in this kind of thing
it's better just to browse the site.  He's got 14 films on it so far,
and they're all interesting (for some value of "interesting").

Regards,
David M.
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