What a great video - quite moving in a strange way

yes, you're right it is. Had a lump in my throat when they talked about letterpress one day disappearing. Great though, that there are those keeping it alive--and with such passion.

Good stuff! :)

Wonderfully poignant .. I think that the filmmaker, Chuck Kraemer, deserves a big hug.

elsa.photo.net/kraemerfilms.html

This is awesome! I agree this film is a great documentation of why we need to hold on to crafts like this process.

@Pixel Grease
'poignant'--that's the word I was searching for. Indeed it is.

This is great!

My uncle in the Philippines had a two letterpresses... amazing... Seeing the motion and rhythm of the pressman and the machine is almost hypnotizing.

We shouldn't let this be a dying art form

Very interesting. Thanks :)

Dude, that's one cool video!
Nicely photographed and shown real DEPTH in the printing results.

Wow, this piece of documentary is excellent !
The printer and his philosophy is BRILLIANT.
What a humble dude.
Sure hope someone will carry on with this ART.
That's what it is... and art.

Lynotype machine is another invention that simply amazing, considering when it was introduced. A mechanical 'robot' without software :)
Oh yeah... the people were the software.
heh

Facinating stories and I hope you keep making more of them... since you're an ARTIST as well.

Awesome!

simply amazing.

That's cool. He seems dangerously close to choppin of the hand tho!

that's really an interesting piece of video

amazing!

saw this on youtube and it made me sad :-(

Great photography! Those old presses are amazing. Here's a letterpress poster printed in Cleveland. Cheers.

vimeo.com/2170116

This is the best video on letterpress that I've seen. Thanks!

Loved this video.

Wow. That was nostalgic. No where as cool as a letterpress, but a printing factory no less: vimeo.com/23735869

this was my very first introduction to letterpress, more than 3 years ago... i still love this video