News and Comics: Chicago Tribune VIII
News and Comics: Chicago Tribune VIII
08.00.14.- MS's & CU's inside drafting room, workers cutting & assembling page layout at drafting tables. Cut to MS's & CU's worker cutting articles w/ Xacto knife; rolled articles drop from slot; he uses a small machine for precision cuts; assembles articles on drafting board, eliminates waste w/ knife. Cut to more MS's workers doing page layout. CU rolled articles falling into cubby slot; zoom out to MS's of worker unspooling rolls, cutting articles out. 08.07.55.- MS worker lifting glass platen & placing finished page layout sheet into scanning machine. 08.09.33.- MS worker taking sheet from drying mount and to scanning machine; enters data into computer. 08.11.28.- CU's scanner feed. MS worker taking sheet, rolling it up dropping it into slot. 08.13.13.- MS's worker taking roll of film from printing machine & into darkroom. 08.13.39.- MS's & CU's worker cutting & pasting Section A Front Page layout at drafting table. 08.16.35.- MS's workers taking page negatives from processor to light table. MS's & CU's processing machines making thick hardbacked postive plates of page layout (very similar to automated photography processors, involvesmany rollers & dryers). 08.23.01.- MS's workers sorting plates in what seems to be a drying room; last layout step before pressing. 08.27.17.- the camera crew jokes around 08.27.39.- traveling MS's of worker placing rubber copy plate on printing machines inside production area. 08.28.27.- MS worker placing rubber plate copies onto printing roller; roller slowly takes the plates.