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Typing technical aspects

posted 9 years ago by PlatinumScreen
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I appreciated that the technicalities of typing were honored in the movie. I do believe they had someone very knowledgeable at hand to give authenticity.

One question though....where did Louis learn all of his knowledge about typing such as learning to anticipate the ends of sentences and that Rose shouldn't look at her fingers and what she's typing? That wouldn't have been something men knew much about at that time.

This movie made me miss simpler times and my old IBM Selectric II my dad bought me at a thrift store when I was in high school. I carried that heavy, heavy thing up three flights of stairs to my college dorm room every August and down those stairs in May.

[–] Nobody-27 8 years ago

Actually, I found it off-putting that the technicalities of typing were NOT followed well at all. The first rule is to hold your hands, elbows and shoulders in such a way that will prevent sore muscles and repetitive stress injury. Rose is doing it all wrong as can be seen from the position of her fingers; funny enough, some other typists are doing it relatively well, but they seem to be real typists. In addition, as she is learning piano, which in reality does help with typing, she does a better job at the piano, but fails to transfer those skills to the typewriter.

[–] louiseculmer 8 years ago

i couldn't really understand why he didn't pay for her to have proper typing lessons, there were no shortage of secretarial schools in those days. i learnt to type at one in the 70s. they used typewriters with blank keys, so you had to learn to touch type, there was no alternative.