The way we were: The Morning Paper [Print is dead]

A Times of London newspaper journalist at his type writer in 1942A fascinating glimpse here at Fleet Street and how it produced newspapers during the Second World War. This film looks at how The Times was produced doing the blitz.

Britons, we are told right at the start, are inveterate newspaper readers as we dip into a world of plush looking smoky offices where the heart of the newspaper is the “intelligence department”.

Hot metal, telegraph wires and type writers might be long gone, but it gives a wonderful look back to the world as it was in 1942. I wonder if journalists of 70-years ago would recognise their social media savvy colleagues from the 21-st century or the public — no longer quite the inveterate newspaper readers they once were.