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Making Books, 1947

Here’s a fascinating 1947 documentary produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films about the mass production of books:

(via Brain Pickings)

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  1. That’s funny, Andrew Brozyna just sent this to me this morning. It’s great that a record like this exists. It’s always amazing to see documentations of industrialization/mass production. One of my favorite videos like this is on the Elmo’s Potty Time video my son used to watch where they show how toilet paper is made. Sort of poetic. Machines clanking away in mechanical unison to create products that we very intimately interact with. In this case books, but the same goes for toilet paper…

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