galley proof
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If journalism is the first draft of history, documentary filmmaking is often an overdue, dog-eared galley proof with no cover art.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Cuarón received the 2015 novel that the series is based on from author Renée Knight about a decade ago as a galley proof.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024
For the next seven years or so, all the way to galley proof in 1984, McCarthy whittled Blood Meridian down into the lean nightmare we now know.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2012
He reads all editorials in galley proof, sprays his staff with marked clippings, suggestions for stories and editorials.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the nearer one sat a dyspeptic man of middle age waving a heavy pencil above a galley proof.
From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge
