Behind the scenes at the Sunderland Echo in 1980

Inside the Pennywell offices of the Sunderland Echo: A film from 43 years ago, courtesy of the North East Film Archive

Transcript

00:00 Behind every edition there is a feat of organisation that repeats itself every 24 hours.

00:09 And behind that feat there are all the men and women that are the organisation.

00:14 The tradition of the paper creates its own loyalties and a sense of teamwork.

00:21 It runs through every department. Some people you meet, others you don't.

00:32 Some you know as voices.

00:34 "The photograph of the spaceman in the shop, which means that the following week in the future you can have the actual picture..."

00:40 The headquarters office is three miles from the centre of Sunderland, its third home in its long history.

00:46 The library still houses the first edition, published on December 22nd 1873.

00:57 The echoes reverberate through to the modern paper.