Newspaper Story (1940 1949)

British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film. Acknowledgements made to The Times. Shots of a burning building. Firemen tackle the blaze. C, U of policeman checking newspaper reporter s press pass. The policeman imparts information to the journalist. Shorthand is taken down. Reporter phones in his report. Woman on other end of phone in News Room takes down the details. Sign on front of desk saying Reuters another sign on desk saying The Exchange Telegraph Company Ltd, 64 ( ) Cannon Street, London EC4 and a label Woman typing a news story. Takes to news editor who telephones the police to check details. C, U of the typed report. Subeditor is given report. He writes notes on the report which is then inserted into a metal tube and sent to the composing room by means of a pipe. In the composing room metal letters are placed in order in a rack. A test print proof is made and checked. One proof is sent to the Reading Room for checking by means of a strange metal p