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Extremely epic video shows how pencils are made

How we make pencils

Faber-Castell’s been making pencils since 1761 and wants to show-not-tell you about them. Wordless cinematography and a epic soundtrack right out of Hollywood.

Producing 2.3 billion pencils a year and being in the business for over 257 years, Faber-Castell has a sound know-how of how quality pencils are made. Have a look behind the scenes of our manufacturing.

The beauty of this video is the tension between two advertising concepts: “make the industrial process look artisanal” vs “glorify the scale of the industrial process.” So you end up with intimately-recorded pencil-scatching noises played comically loud, fighting for attention against Logic Pro’s orchestal sample library.

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