Making fake newspapers for movies

[John Nixon]

https://youtu.be/NS-675hbQcA

Cheers, John Nixon
theprintingmuseum.org.nz

[Dave Hughes]

Lovely film John, thanks for posting that.

You can always tell the fake newspapers in film by the white space in the headlines. The old sub-editors, back in the day, managed to make them fit the space precisely. And that was before type size could be incrementally increased, decreased, kerned, condensed, expanded, etc. It was just a guy getting the mats out of a Ludlow cabinet!

Oh, and a mention of a "Crackerjack Box" as well. RIP Meatloaf.