# film features (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover film features. Page: Feed: --- ## [Type Faces in the Making](https://printingfilms.com/films/type-faces-in-the-making/) _2025-02-28 · Printing Films_ If you ever wondered how a typeface went from a designer’s drawing to a finished, cast piece of type from the Monotype; this is the film for you. Starting with an original drawing, this film goes through the painstaking and multi-step process of creating a single typeface in a single style in a single size for the Monotype composition caster. It shows the entire process of type design and creation… ## [Modules Make Sense](https://printingfilms.com/films/modules-make-sense/) _2025-02-28 · Printing Films_ Monotype made this film to showcase their newer, computer technologies that were finally coming to the market in the late 1960s. Based on the idea of modules which could be interchanged as needed for printers’ and typesetters’ specific needs, Monotype is desperate to show they are using modern circuit boards and tape-reading “computers” and are not behind the times. Even though they are doing… ## [Stay Put! The Use of a Revolutionary Darkroom Camera](https://printingfilms.com/films/stay-put-rotadon-camera/) _2025-02-28 · Printing Films_ The ‘Rotadon’ darkroom camera from Monotype’s subsidiary, Pictorial Machinery Limited, is a revolutionary, new camera made for photographing, enlarging and reducing, and creating photo positive and negatives for photographic reproduction and printing. It is so revolutionary that it allows the operator to STAY PUT and not have to move anywhere compared to old and outdated copy cameras (which is… ## [‘Monophoto’ Filmsetting Machine](https://printingfilms.com/films/monophoto-filmsetting-machine/) _2025-02-28 · Printing Films_ This film showcases Monotype’s answer to the upcoming phototypesetting revolution. They take great pains to show how little has changed from the old, hot-metal Monotype machines by replacing the hot-metal pot with a light source and the brass matrices with individual, photo negative matrices for exposure on paper or film. This cautious approach was in order to assuage the fears of printers who did…