I watched The Story of Writing 3: Print and Metal Pens, and the first thing that struck me was the library of chained books. Now a days, we have many security measures, most of which we take for granted, so the idea of chaining down books to shelves may seem somewhat barbaric. But considering the time period, that was the simplest method to deter theft, which never occured to me until I saw it.

I was also surprised to see, that in a time where ink was how things were written, text could be erased. With our pencils and erasers, we tend to take that for granted, until we use pens of course. I always wondered how, if corrections needed to be made, it would be done. It seems it was as simple as scraping off the mistake and writing over it. While I say simple, the process was definitely more than that, but the idea just seems too easy, when in fact it was how things were done. When it came to printing, the engraving process was just as difficult as I imagined, if not more so.

In regards to the music, it was an old timey style that made me felt like “I am watching something old.” What stood out for me in terms of the production however, was the credits. While most people would skip credits (which I am also guilty of), I watched through and noticed: all the names were written in Italic font, which was described in the video itself. I felt that it was a clever use of content.