Letterpress Exhibit Volunteer Needs Help

I bravely volunteered to develop a Letterpress Exhibit for a small-town Museum. Have spent three years visiting Museums and learning about the fascinating world of Letterpress and am about ready to put the exhibit together. We have a Linotype, a circa 1890 C & P Press, and a stone top table plus many smaller items — all donated by the publisher of a weekly newspaper who changed to off-set. I’d like to find someone in the St. Louis area with a working Linotype who would allow me to do some short video clips showing close-ups of working parts of the Linotype for touch screen Exhibit explanation? Thanks!!!

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There’s a fellow in Union, MO with a working linotype (at least there was, hard to say these days). I’ll dig up his name later today.

Why create work for yourself when there are several Linotype videos on YouTube that you could use.

Yes, I’ve looked at a number of them on YouTube, but our guidelines indicate that we need to hold individual video clips to a maximum of 3 minutes each — which is said to be the average attention span of a museum visitor. Thus, I am trying to stay with the guides while still getting a fast, close-up of operator hands at the key board, matrix dropping into place from the magazine, lifting the full line of matrices to the casting mechanism, and return, distribution of each matrix after completing line of type. Luckily I will be able to count each individual step as a clip. Thanks for the encouragement. Maybe I’ll insist of a longer time limit.