Eric Rosenthal sent me a link to the video below.  The news stand, piles of magazines, fashions, graphic design, near empty streets, tugged at the edges of memory: I was in Italy for a brief time in 1961 (though I seem to remember that things were in color) a year after this film was made.

If artless, unintentional beauty of complex mechanical movement is of interest, the documentary’s glimpse into the incredible engine which was the linotype machine is worth watching.