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In this programme Arthur Marwick validates Gutenberg's claim to be the first to print with movable type and examines the effects social and educational of the invention.
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Description In this programme Arthur Marwick validates Gutenberg's claim to be the first to print with movable type and examines the effects social and educational of the invention.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 05-02-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:10 |
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| Producer: | Nick Levinson |
| Contributors: | Joel Hurstfield; Arthur Marwick |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Gutenberg; Mainz; Printing; Social change |
| Footage description: | In front of montage of documents concerning Gutenberg, Arthur Marwick sets out to validate Gutehberg's claim to be the first to print with movable type. Various shots at end of sequence of the Gutenberg Bible, and of the Mainz Psalter. Portrait of Gutenberg. With the aid of an animated map Arthur Marwick outlines the spread of printing from Mainz until 1500. Arthur Marwick examines techniques similar to that of printing with movable type with which Gutenberg could have been familiar and also the Chinese 'block book' method of printing. Examples are shown. Shots of Mainz (contemporary film) Film inside the Gutenberg Museum showing reconstructed 15th century printing equipment. The processes of printing are shown. 1. type casting 2. composition 3. Printing (including inking). Arthur Marwick runs through the remainder of the operations binding and selling. There are no illustrations of the binding operations. Discussion with Joel Huretfield of the significance of printing, of the development of printing and of other matters relevant to printing, i.e. Reformation, social changes, changes in education etc. Arthur Marwick sums up. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70338 |
| Production number: | 00521_2303 |
| Videofinder number: | 1770 |
| Available to public: | yes |
