Notes On Music (1936)

Full title reads: Notes on Music. Location of events unknown. The printing process of sheet music. C, U of man s hands playing piano, tilt up to show sheet of music. M, S of row of men engraving zinc or pewter sheets with music. C, U of various tools. C, U of man s hands engraving music lines and bars onto metal sheet. The man then uses a mallet and steel punches to create notes. Extreme C, U of man engraving slurs (curved lines that bunch notes together). C, U of completes sheet being polished. C, U of finished music sheet. Panning C, U of men rubbing ink onto engraved zinc sheets. The sheet of paper is then placed over zinc platter and lithographic stone is rolled over it. M, S of factory floor of the printers men inking sheets and turning handle that rolls lithographic stone. C, U of man s hands carefully lifting the first proof sheet from under the stone. Various shots of rotary printing machines in action. Various shots of paper passing through the printing press. We see a man