Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film 

Some memories there. I spent from '68 to '86 in my early printing career looking after 233 typesetting cases. 40 hours a week as a Hand Machine Compositor. The machine typesetting I only did towards the end of the 17 years. Here I am still going in print but now its all digital. Do I miss Letterpress ...... I think I miss the simpler lifestyle back then. I will always have Letterpress in my heart.

I started setting type in 1952 in a printing trade high school. I also worked as a job pressman. In 1958 I started working as a linotype operator. It was a great trade.

Completed apprenticeship as a hand compositor in ‘78.. spent the next 10 years or so retraining as the tech moved faster that you you learn it.. and now they tell us we are resistant to change.. great ilm brings back great memories of what was a “craft” not just a job..

Thank you for reminding me of how much I love printing! Setting type is exactly how I got my start 47 years ago 😊

I was a letterpress compositor from 1976 to 1982 I then went into reprographics and computer typesetting. I still love Photoshop and Corel Draw today at age 60, and yet wished I had spent more time in letterpress. We did Thomas Cook European Railway timetables, 500 pp of 6pt and a pair of tweezers for any of the authors amendments. Lovely to see this video.

outstanding this moved me emotionally

Here in 2023, you're bang on! 🐈‍⬛

That is absolutely fantastic, great film, brilliantly made, love the credits, just brilliant, and Mr Collier, your a star!

Brilliant! I can smell the color of this film! Great job, Danny Cooke!

This is a beautiful short film. Thank you.

my father open letter shop at 1980 and now become turn to offset printing business and vinyl printing and Digital printing in this time. At that time no computers in my town .I live in Myitkyina and my shop name is Sandar press. I miss my old memories about letter printing process and i see this video u looks like my father. i always love letter printing and still having that machine.

Someone needs to show how to hold a composing stick.

it's very warm, I can feel the hand. brilliant

really brilliant short film. Showing off nicely the work of Paul in the work shop. well done

This is wonderful. Almost an emotional experience just watching you work. Really appreciative of your craft. Wish I could spend a week with you in the shop. Keep up the great work.

The credits at the end are so smart :)

Great little video. We are lucky enough to have a galley/proofing press at Canterbury College now, thanks to our tutor.

Nice film, but you should have a chat with someone who has worked in the trade and find out how to hold the composing stick!

Thank you soooo much! It was amazing

Another quality audio & video docco, (I can see why you're so well received on Vimeo). Timelapse change of pace from 2min 4sec in is entertaining & closing credits superb ^_^

Before Macintosh easy type adjustments and silent movies with ‘chase scenes’, a type composer would “cut to the chase”, if the story is too verbose to fit in his “print chase”

Love the feeling...touching the words for their real texture❤️. Aliveness❤️🍷🍷🍷:))

Love your oldschool work! Hate this new, fake, chip technology!!!

Hola Bibi

My Job i like it

This was really cool. But the music was awful. Didn’t fit at all.

I can tell that this person has no experience in type setting, he should be using his left thumb to keep the letters in place and tight.