Newspaper Story

Documents the activities of newspaper staff members during a 24-hour period. Shows how news is gathered and how it is written, edited, and printed.

EXT New York Times Office
man buys paper
truck pulls into dock
roll of paper taken from stack, rolled to press
many huge spools of paper
people typing
man takes layouts from machine
walks through office
workers check press
woman works on layout
pan across papers
man pours coffee in meeting room
policy meeting
Editor lights huge cigar
men sit around board room table and discuss
various head and shoulders shots of men discussing
messy office of cartoonist
CU of cartoons
signature
CUs of cartoonist working
woman tests recipes in kitchen
woman puts soufflé in the oven
zoom in on timer
Political write puts on headset
EXT LA Times office, man walks out
man enters room where press conference is held
camera man adjusts focus
Mayor sits down at desk
members of press watch and take notes
woman sets up foods
photographer lights and shoots photos
man checks rolodex, dials number
feature writer on headset
Air Pollution Research Center sign
writer interviews man at research center
shot through a round hole of writer and another man
writer conducts another interview
laser firing in scientific contraption
man takes notes
man walks through office, has discussion with man at desk
man walks across plaza, up stairs
he walks into office, walks with man at desk
two men check records at the City Council office
secretaries explain papers
Managing Editor looks at photos
editors sit around desk and look at photos and papers
writing on dummy of newspaper
man typing on typewriter
CU keys typing
Mid shot man at desk
writer walks through office and hands papers to assistant editor
CU assistant editor marking errors on paper, fact checking
news editors work on long strips of paper
man pulls paper out of tube
man with cigarette marks story
CU hands typing
girls typing
auto reader reads typed stories, transfers on to ribbon
story makes its way to press
man loads ribbon on reel-to-reel machine
typist works
man pulls off copy of paper
small press makes a copy of paper
man sorts through printed stories
proofreader picks up story
proofreader looks over story on desk
man lays out sections of paper on press
he hammers small blocks of print onto layout
slides layout into machine, negative of the paper pops out
workers makes metal plate from negative
worker loads metal plate onto conveyor
plats travel through the press room
worker places plates onto press
newspapers running through press
basketball players
photographers shooting basketball game
reporter writes during basketball game
photographer puts roll of film into bag
EXT stadium “The Forum”, photographer rides away on motorcycle
music critic walks outside concert hall at night
he goes into theater
critic sits in theater
pianist bows on stage
critic writes
photographer rides by on motorcycle
POV driving shot, city at night, fountains
back at the basketball game the sports writer types in booth
he uses fax machine to send story back to HQ
writer goes down to Lakers locker room to interview coaches and players
photos are processed in a photo lab
worker makes photo engravings
photoengraver exposes plate
places photo into space in layout
printing press running
finished papers coming out of machine
machine bundles papers
papers go down conveyor
Times delivery trucks rolls out of dock
delivery truck drives out onto street
INT office man types review of concert