Boys Will Be - Editors (1936)

Item title reads - Boys will be - editors. Lancing, West Sussex. Various shots of Eric Hale (aged 14) writing a letter. He writes and publishes his own newspaper. Various shots as he sets the type on his small printing machine. L/S of a giant printing press in Fleet Street shown in comparison. Eric rolls the ink and puts it over the type, he has to do this for every new page. The two methods of printing are compared. C/U of the type. M/S of his newspaper ’The Magpie’ when it is finished. Various shots as he takes the newspapers around to the houses nearby to sell them. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin