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This '50s clip is in two parts. First it shows kids making and printing a newspaper. It then shows kids making a motion picture film.
Italian school children in uniforms are in a classroom set up like a printing factory. Children are passing each other stamps and pens, along with semi-completed issues of their class printed newspaper. Boys are carving out large page proofs with small knives and pressing the pages in hand presses. The teacher is inspecting the pages and the girls are hanging them on clothes lines for drying. The pages have large pictures of home and nature scenes. A farmer sits in the middle of a field near some goats and reads the paper while smoking a pipe.
In Sweden, three boys are at a table cutting and splicing a 35mm film. On the set, the director is giving instructions while standing near his lights. He runs up to his camera and grabs a measuring tape. A friend holds the title card which reads, “Pyroman” and the director mans the camera. They shoot a scene where a boy exits a building and then is confronted by a man who grabs his shirt. They reset the scene and shoot it a second time.