Farewell etaoin shrdlu

Duration: 29

Year Published: 1980

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Etaoin shrdlu are the first two rows of letters on a linotype machine keyboard. This film is a tribute to those machines. Documents the changeover at the New York Times from the hot-type linotype process to a cold-type computerized system, and records the final day of hot type at the newspaper. Machine operators discuss their feelings about the replacement of this traditional printing process and training in a new electronic system.

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