Filming Fit To Print (Day 2) in studioW

The Exposition. We will establish NYC in 1840. The feeling from below. The feel from the streets.

The sound of a waking city. Horses. Steam whistles. Church bells. Dockworkers shouting. Ships unloading cargo, crowded streets, open shops, street vendors, handbills. A crowd circles an inventor and his curious new machine, an artist hangs a fresh canvas inside a museum, a salesman pitches a passerby on tickets to a show in front of a colorful broadside.

We are the counter that connects the pressroom, where ink rolls into empty pages, compositors set type, the freshly printed sheets become a stack of newspapers bundled with twine, runners weaving through crowded streets with penny papers for sale.