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Linotype: The Film
2012 · Film · documentary · 75 min
Directed by Doug Wilson
A feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype typecasting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.
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There is a very nice documentary called "Linotype: The Film". It is currently on Tubi (in my part of the world at least):
* https://tubitv.com/movies/569684/linotype-the-film-in-search-of-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world
A related film to put on your watchlist: “Linotype: The Film”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2130114/
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16904770
The link submitted then (https://vimeo.com/127605643) was to a slightly different version of the film on Vimeo as part of the "Linotype: The Film" collection:
https://vimeo.com/134626010
If you liked this, be sure to check out the 2012 documentary 'Linotype: The Film', featuring Carl Schlesinger and footage from 'Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu'. One of my all-time favorite documentaries!
https://linotypefilm.com/
If you like that, be sure to watch Linotype: The Film, the makers of which digitized that documentary.
Anyone interested in Linotype would greatly enjoy Linotype: The Film [0], a full length documentary that interviews several of the people that made this film.
[0] - https://vimeo.com/15032988
That awesome typesetting machine is called a Linotype, and they're slowly disappearing. There's a cool Kickstarter project to film a documentary about them.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/206589381/linotype-the-film