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Here it is, the full story of how those short library pencils are born.
Kudos to the staff of the Williams College Libraries, to filmmaker Nick Baker, and to the fine folks at the Prelinger Archives (and to American Libraries Direct for the alert).
Kudos to the staff of the Williams College Libraries, to filmmaker Nick Baker, and to the fine folks at the Prelinger Archives (and to American Libraries Direct for the alert).
7 Comments:
is that actually how they are made, or is it a joke?
This is hilarious. :) I love the black and white contemporary footage; they sure fooled me!
It seems very clear that most librarians, or library students at least, have never never ever handled a coping saw...and yet they still manage to turn out those little pencils! (Wonder if they subcontract their work for putt-putt golf courses...)
Katie Fleming is a good friend of mine! And I'm proud to say that I've gotten research advice from most of the pencil-shorteners in the black-and-white segment.
Back in my days of teaching movie-making in the art school here, we had a grad student who made a career out of splicing together clips from old instructional films to make new, humorous movies. He had a rich source of material since the U of I had the world's largest educational film library and regularly threw worn-out prints into the dumpster behind their building. This reminds me a lot of his work!
- GDS
i like it. especially the part where they're sawing off the pencil ends and throwing away the larger part. You'd think they could make three small pencils out of one, but NO.... (as if we're not wasting enough trees already). at the beginning i thought the girl was saying "I hate this SHARP pencil." instead of "I hate this SHORT pencil." confusing. :)
I just showed this to my dad. He liked it. I liked watching it again.
hee hee.
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