Linotype : The Film

 

In these times of iPads and Amazon it’s always interesting when some (stubborn?) folk choose to defy the techno flock and stick with some good ol’ fashioned, honest-to-goodness mechanicals.

With that in mind, here’s the trailer for a forth-coming documentary about Ottmar Mergenthaler’s Linotype typecasting machine and the people who still own (and love) these machines today.

We love a bit of archaic image-making round here.