This 18-minute silent film documented the various stages of book production employed by O.U.P. in publishing the Oxford English Dictionary in 1925. Processes shown included the hand-casting of type from matrices, hand-setting type, production of stereotype plates, typing punched paper rolls for Monotype casters, typesetting by Monotype casting machines driven by the punched paper rolls. All of these processes were undertaken by men as well as printing on printing machines extensively supervised by men. In the large bindery facility women and men were segregated, with gatherings folded and gathered by hand by women, and men operating most of the sophisticated bindery machines.
