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Huset i Købmagergade 9 summede af aktivitet
døgnet rundt, og det var ikke ukompliceret at have så
mange faggrupper og forskelligartede afdelinger
samlet under et tag. Alle, der har haft forbindelse med
bladverdenen, ved, at teknisk og redaktionelt
personale ikke nødvendigvis går godt i spænd
sammen, især ikke når pladsforholdene bliver trange.
Det gjaldt naturligvis også for PIB. Især var der
problemer for forlagets lager. Problemet blev til en vis
grad løst, da forlaget flyttede til Uplandsgade 38 på
Amager, og de fleste interne stridigheder blev løst i
mindelighed.
PIB fungerede stadig som nyhedsbureau for fotos
med natredaktion, og man kunne være endog meget
effektiv. En sporvognsulykke i København i 1958 skete
klokken 9.41. Klokken 10.57 havde man fotografier fra
ulykkesstedet i hænderne, og klokken 11.13 blev
klicheerne sendt afsted så de kunne nå første tog til
provinsen med afgang 11.27.
Fotoarkivet var vokset betydeligt, og selv om der
selvfølgelig var et arkivsystem, benyttede man sig i
vid udstrækning af frøken Elisabeth Petersens formidable
hukommelse. Hun var begyndt i firmaet i 1919
og havde ry for aldrig at glemme et fotografi, der
havde været gennem hendes hænder. Petersen var
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Mao didn’t quite have control of the Cultural
Revolution. The Danish government chose not to
interfere, though.
The offices at Købmagergade 9 buzzed with activity
around the clock, and it wasn’t altogether
uncomplicated to have so many different skilled
trades and widely-varied departments gathered under
one roof. Everyone who has ever had connections to
the publishing industry knows that technical and
editorial personnel don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye,
especially when a workplace is crowded.
That was, naturally enough, also true at PIB, where
conflicts were especially bad over the publishing
company’s inventory. These problems were mostly
solved when the publishing company moved to
Uplandsgade 38 on Amager, and most of the internal
conflicts were solved amicably.
PIB was still a functioning news photo bureau at that
time, with a night desk, and could be very effective. A
streetcar accident in Copenhagen in 1958 occurred at
9:41. By 10:57, PIB had photographs of the accident
scene in hand, and at 11:13 the printing plates were
shipped out so that they could make it aboard the first
train to the provinces, which left at 11:27.
The photo morgue had grown considerably, and
even though there was an archive
system, of course, most PIB
employees made wide-spread use
Mogens Juhl tegnede PIBs
daglige og ugentlige satiretegninger
frem til 1980’erne.
Senere blev satiren overtaget
af Bent Eskestad, Peter
Heydenreich og Bo Secher.
Mogens Juhl drew PIB’s daily
and weekly editorial cartoons
until the 1980’s. After him
Bent Eskestad, Peter Heydenreich
and Bo Secher have
worked on this feature.
of Miss Elisabeth Petersen’s
formidable memory. She had begun
working at the company in 1919,
and had a reputation for never
having forgotten a photograph that
had passed through her hands.
Petersen was also a talented
mechanic and still repaired her own
motorcycle herself, because she
wouldn’t trust her dear “Rex” to just