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
It burned 3,000 copies already run off, melted down the type and impounded every galley proof and the manuscript of the original story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jeff was white as the galley proof that lay before him with the unprinted side up.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
