On National Haiku Poetry Day, Wellesley Shines a Spotlight on the Book Arts Lab Descriptive Transcript [soft music begins to play] [Video on screen]: Type letters reading “Wellesley College” arranged upside down on a metal surface. [Text on screen]: (focus shifts) “A Look Inside Wellesley’s Book Arts Lab” [Video on screen]: Hands arranging small type letters into a metal case. [Voice off screen]: “Once you have the tiles set out, you lay it on the printing press.” [Video on screen]: Hands wrap white string around a cluster of type letters laid out on printing press. [Video on screen]: Hands lift the string off of the set type letters. [Voice off screen]: “Every movement you make has to be very precise and purposeful because it will all show in the final product.” [Video on screen]: Hands use a metal tool to tighten margins around set type letters. [Video on screen]: Hands use a small metal scraper to paint out ink across a surface. [Voice off screen]: “You have to ink the rollers of the press so we can distribute ink across the type.” [Video on screen]: Hand uses metal scraper to place dots of ink along the metal roller of the press. [Video on screen]: Close-up shot of rollers turning and spreading the ink. [Voice off screen]: “It is quite difficult, I’d say, to make sure all the letters align and to make sure the margins all work.” [Video on screen]: Inked rollers and paper slide across the typeset letters. [Video on screen]: Hands attach a piece of paper to the press. [Voice off screen]: “Crank the handle, which rolls the paper over the type, and that’s what transfers the ink.” [Video on screen]: Students look on as a student cranks the handle to roll the ink and paper over the type letters. [Video on screen]: Low angle shot of another student cranking the rollers over the type. [Video on screen]: Professor speaks as another student rolls paper over type. [Voice off screen]: “You take the paper out, you look at what you did and you’re like, ‘Wow, this is, real. This is a work of art.” [Video on screen]: Hand takes paper off of rollers and holds up to the camera. The paper reads, “Consider me/ As one who loved poetry/ And persimmons./ Masaoka Shiki/ Wellesley College Book Arts Lab/ Annis Press, April 2019” [Text on screen]: “Stop by the Book Arts Lab Open House, April 26 | 1:30-4 pm, Clapp 4th Floor” [Music continues] [Text on screen]: “Special Thanks: Qq Chua ’22, Jingyi Dai ’22, Katherine Ruffin, ARTS/WRIT 115”