| FOREIGN STAMPS New United Nations postage stamps are printed from an engraving a | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6007 |
| Catalog #: | 489101 | |
| Clip Number: | 489101-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 65 | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:18 - 01:11:46 | |
| Location: | Great Britain, England, London | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Printing & Publishing LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London | |
| Description: | COLOUR PICTORIALS Stamp Making. Shows all the steps of making postage stamps at a stamp factory; factory is in England but they get orders from foreign countries too - -here they are shown making a stamp for the United States (?) honoring United Nations Charter of Human Rights; it depicts peoples of the world breaking out of bondage; words around the edges are in 5 languages. Var. close shots of a stamp artist sitting at desk, looking through a mounted magnifying glass as he works on tiny design for stamp. XCU he goes over Cyrillic letters. Engraving stamp. Var. MCUs/CUs of another man engraving by hand; in XCUs we see that he is engraving the same design the artist drew for the Russian stamp. Var. shots of the engraver now using a pantograph (engraving machine with which the engraver can trace outlines of the design on a large size copy while a needle on the machine automatically makes the same outlines on stamp size steel dye. CUs of the man using machine then of the needle engraving. CU man operating machine with heavy roller that goes over paper on the engraved design. XCUs man shows the design now printed on paper, this step is to inspect the details. MCU another factory worker at a machine where the master engraving is duplicated onto copper plate. CUs of machine making plate. Woman factory worker at printing machine. CU large roller turning, with worker grabbing sheets of stamps as they turn up on the roller. MCU 2 women workers counting sheets. MCU sheets of stamps going into perforating machine and being cut; CU stamps come out of machine and slide toward cam. which stays on CU of sheet of stamps | |
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