Learning on ScreenIt’s A Computer World: Colour Print Composer
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The microchip is changing the face of industry. But the microchip is also enriching our society - helping to move traffic smoothly through our towns, to explore new areas of design and to guide great airliners more efficiently and with greater safety all over the globe. Designing graphics for the printing press is an art in itself. It takes time and there’s little chance for experimentation. But a new computer can now be fed with a wealth of information: framing, siting of shapes and forms and gradations of colour. In just over an hour, a complex design can be tried out, altered, juggled around and finally accepted. Then the computer takes over and reissues all these instructions to the printing press itself.
- Keywords
- Mass media; Arts and crafts; Science and technology; Computers and computing; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/257
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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