French TV Letterpress Museum Feature - video

[Dave Hughes]

This video from French TV shows a visit to a letterpress museum in Vervins.

Looks like a couple of nice Intertype C4s and a very old-looking press at the end.


https://youtu.be/peV1HoLfwA0

The Google translation of the video's description seems to reveal a few glaring inaccuracies:

For my live column from the regions of France, I took the Télématin cameras to Vervins in the last press that produces a lead newspaper: the Democrat of the Aisne. Lynotipie, rotary...: Dominique Pierru, the director of the publication, enlightened us on the manufacturing process with in particular the arrival at the end of the 1960s of the Linotype allowing a gain in productivity. Thanks to this new machine, it now took a day of linotype to produce a page.

Linotypes arriving in the late 1960s and a day of typesetting to produce a page!

Let's hope that the reporter isn't assigned to anything weighty, like international conflicts!