Newspaper Serves Its Community Footage

Newspaper Serves Its Community
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	Catalog #:	490606
	Clip Number:	490606-1
	Orginal Film:	WPA 1683
	Timecode:
	Location:	Los Angeles, California
	Year Shot:	1960 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	JOURNALISM: Newspaper
	Description:	ON PREVIEW TAPE # 991875 A thorough (though somewhat outdated) behind-the-scenes look at how a newspaper is put together at the Los Angeles Times..... MS of newspaper press rolling off morning edition; man take issue off, reads headlines; CU's of front page..... MS's of reporters typing in a large room. MS's and CU's of the editor at his desk, hanging up phone and calling a reporter in; reporter is assigned a baby elephant story. MS of reporter and photographer gathering necessary materials and leaving for the airport. MS of reporter scribbling notes during an interview by a plane at the airport. MS's of a baby elephant being led off the plane; MS's of photographer snapping pics..... back at the office. CU and MS of the photographer developing his best shot in the darkroom, taking it from the water bath. MS of the reporter flipping through files in a file cabinet. CU's of a teletype machine printing a wire story. MS of a photofax, CU of a picture of the baby elephant and its mother being printed. MS's of reporter typing out story. MS of a secretary opening a letter, remving a comic to be printed. MS's of an artist working on a print ad for a washing machine. CU of a clock reading 5:39...... MS of editor handing approved story and photo to a man plotting the layout. CU of LA Times layout sheet. CU of the Copy Reader proofing sheet and adding a dumb headline. CU of the man rolling the story into a tube and sending it into a air-delivery system that deposits the tube in the composing room..... MS's and CU's of a man working at a typesetting machine. MS's and CU's of a man making out page 10 with metal typesets. MS's of man matting the typeset, placing mat into a roller. CU's of mat being metal plated. LS's of forklifts hauling huge rolls of paper into print shop. MS of man adding ink to rollers. MS's and CU's of page 10 being printed, folded, cut and inspected. MS's and CU's of papers being bundled...... MS of man on a delivery truck handing a bundle to another man on the street. Tight LS of a paperboy delivering. MS of a man reading the paper while getting his haircut. MS's of two riffraff sitting in a convertible and reading the sports section (greasers with tattoos). MS's of a woman being sold a washing machine in a department store. MS's of a family of three standing on their lawn and looking through teh paper, planning on going to the zoo to see the baby elephant. MS of a copy boy putting the paper on the editor's desk; he takes it and leaves the office for the night.