Newspaper Story

Series: World of Work Series

Duration: 12:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 19Jul73 · MP24832 (Jan-Jun 1974) Copyright holder: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Description: Steps in the completion of a newspaper story from recording the incident through the taking & finishing of pictures, writing, editing, setting in type, printing the paper & distributing it are depicted. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. in collaboration with Kenneth E. Olson, LL.D, Northwestern University.

Complete Record: 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