Reprise: The Original PC of Typography Is Now A Movie!

"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.
(With funds from Kickstarter.com, the movie is made,take a look at the trailer!) On a muggy late spring afternoon way back in 1976,I trooped along with the rest of the senior design co-op students on a trip to the St.Louis Post Dispatch newspapers compositing room to see “HOT” type being set manually with a Linotype machine.We laughed and joked about how messy and grimy the room was where at least a half dozen Lino machines sat, clanking and making a racket creating type slugs for the galleys of the next days paper.We were seeing the last of the dinosaurs up close, vibrating with heat and a jangling noise that made your teeth grind. Each student had their name set by a grimy old man who looked liked he stepped out of a frame of the movie, The Front Page.He handed me the slug he typed of my name and it was still warm,the mix of lead and zinc hardened and I truly began my love of type at that moment.

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