Claude Clotier explains the Monotype System - video

[Dave Hughes]

This video was produced by The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, and the machine is explained by Claude Clotier who died earlier this year.

He lifts the keyboard up to show the keybars underneath, which is unusual.

There's also some great printed material advertising the Monotype system shown:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_tQdMIASI

Former Monotype operator Claude Clotier from East Windsor, CT explains the use and operation of the Monotype keyboard and caster, one of the first automatic typesetting machines.  The Monotype keyboard is on display at The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut.