Classroom Film Books (1940 1949)

Title reads: British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film Books. Processes involved in making books. Feeding paper into a machine, printing pages, folding and sorting the pages. Intertitle reads: The printed sheets are folded and sorted. Pages are cut. A woman sorts the pages into bundles then feeds folded pages on to a binding machine. Books are bound then cut to shape. Intertitle reads: Lining and Backing. Lining and Backing processes are then illustrated. Glue pasted on. Books fed into machine which sticks them. Man sticks on extra layer to spines by hand. Intertitle reads: The binding case is now made. Making the binding case. Binding fixed to book. Intertitle reads: The book and binding are joined. Books are then stacked in a very large pile on a pallet. They are then moved and compressed by large press. Woman puts dust covers on by hand. We see finished books: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and The Little Prince. Title: The End