1940s REMINGTON RAND ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER SALESMAN DEMONSTRATION FILM 49734

[@I-Libertine]

What a handsome typewriter! And did you see how closely it was used near the Univac? Incredible!

[@captainkeyboard1007]

I was born in 1953. In 1970, I used the Remington Rand manual typewriter at my first job at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as a dedicated typist, while I was a high school student. I do keyboarding on the microcomputer like a typist with 8 fingers and my right thumb. By the way, I learned typewriting when I was 12 years old. That Remington Rand electric typewriter should have been the champion of typewriters. I am considering subscribing to PeriscopeFilm. Your shows were likely made for me.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

"Considering" subscribing??!

[@captainkeyboard1007]

@@PeriscopeFilmConsider it "done!"

[@loumontcalm3500]

“Thanks for the demonstration, but I’ll wait for the IBM Selectric.”

[@lwilton]

That would be waiting about 12 years, and by then you will be out of business. The IBM Executive would have been a better choice to wait for.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

@@lwiltonThe IBM Selectric model has been my favorite typewriter. Its keys have the best touch and feel. It is quite easy to use.

[@lwilton]

@@captainkeyboard1007Yes, the Selectrics and bouncing-ball printers of all kinds (such as the IBM 1050 terminal or Burroughs TC500 minicomputer) were a joy to use. Fast, reliable, and excellent keyboards. You could also change the font just by swapping balls, which was trivial to do.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

@@lwiltonThe IBM Selectric became my first favorite typewriter. The keys have the best touch for any keystrokes the typist would apply. In fact, I demonstrated 108 words accurately on a typewriting test at a [temporary] employment agency. I probably was not eligible for an employment assignment because I did not wear a suit to the agency. However, I thought my typewriting skill should have done all the "talking" for me. Thank you for typing to me. Happy Keyboarding!🙂

[@JeffDeWitt]

For the early 50's that was a very impressive machine, and no electronics involved, it was all electro-mechanical.

[@jamesslick4790]

My mother worked in a real estate office where there was a fleet of these exact models, This was in the middle 1970s - Whoever ordered them got the company's moneys worth!

[@J0hnnieP]

I have very bad cursive handwriting, and my hand printing isn't much better. In self-defense in the 9th grade (1970), I took a typing skill class at school, and my mother, God bless her, found one of those Remingtons in a pawn shop and bought it for me. ALL my papers were made on it instead of me getting downgraded for lousy handwriting. Had the thing for 12 years (HS and college) before it died. Still have good memories of it to this day.

[@JeffinTD]

First speaker must have went to the William Shatner school of pause acting.

[@dwightl5863]

One thing of the era I like is the printed description of what the key does like Margin and Tab set. Not the hieroglyphics or icons present today that are difficult to figure out. Operator friendly.

[@loveisall5520]

I owned one of these for many years, back in the 90's. It was an amazing typer, I really preferred the touch to my IBM Model A. Why didn't it do better commercially? IBM service...

[@bionicsjw]

I have a typewriter from the late teens and it’s in perfect condition.

[@jamesslick4790]

20 teens or 19 teens? LOL. I never though that I'd live long enough to have to ask THAT! I have a 1950's Remington-Rand portable, and a 1920s Underwood (full size "office" model). And Yep. both still work!

[@TheDieselbutterfly]

We should be using these today

[@roachtoasties]

I'm sold! How do I contact the Remington Rand sales department so I can start modernizing my office with these newfangled electric typewriters today? One more thing: I believe this video was made in the 1950's, not the 1940's. I looked up the part about UNIVAC computers. Remington Rand didn't deliver the first UNIVAC (to the U.S. Census Bureau) until June 14, 1951.

[@Doodlesthegreat]

The typewriter itself wasn't available until mid-1949.

[@I-Libertine]

@@Doodlesthegreat I believe you are right. References to 'just like your TV' are a bit of a giveaway, too.

[@lwilton]

Judging by the suit fashion, 1953 or 1954.

[@jupitercyclops6521]

Where they get you is the cost of the replacement ribbons. Then they put competitors out of business & buy other competitors so they have the market monopoliesed. Oh , they might allow 1 other company to exist, but they collude to fix prices & limit other competition. Then they stop making replacement ribbons after 2 yrs so u have to buy a slightly different model. That's how they do today.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@jupitercyclops6521 I have a 1950s Remington-Rand (not electric) portable. It uses standard ribbon that TO THIS DAY can be had at...Staples!

[@jamesslick4790]

8:38 😳 I could practice for MONTHS and STILL not be able to do that! 😊

[@andrewsmactips]

A: Always B: Be C: Closing

[@wardude7806]

Those days are gone

[@kathysenn7664]

It's "electrified"I haven't heard him warn of the danger of using it near the bathtub.. yet! I'm only halfway through this riveting and very professional sales pitch.. already if I was Mr Executive I would've ordered a gross. I can see his secretaries jumping in doing a rousing rendition of "Are You Happy In Your Work?" At 7:20 ish I thought of the sloth in Zootopia, which in my opinion is the only redeeming scene in the movie- I quit watching with 15 minutes left, wondering what's all the hype. I've been more amused watching this man demonstrate with his hand gliding over the keys, a typewriter I think I used in typing class in the late 60s. He must've had a few cups of coffee before entering the man's office, as shown at 7:45.. After the handshake, they both had black or blue hands from the carbon paper.😃

[@BELCAN57]

You couldn't see the eyes of the guy introducing the film. Remington Rand's film crew didn't light the set correctly.

[@hansimgluck4965]

Yes, but how do we get our critical typing done if there's a power failure?

[@Leela_X]

Happens all the time...

[@comrade5135]

Use a manual

[@tpcdude]

Sales manager had a crazed look in his eyes, so he was qualified. Wonder what sales meetings were like when the camera was not running.

[@310McQueen]

I think he was trying hard to read the cue cards. His speech gives them away.

[@MrHmg55]

Why did the guy wear his glasses to the filming to begin with if he was going to take them off at the very start?

[@joegoldman3065]

Things would have gone faster from those offices if they simply emailed everything.

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

This video is from the early 1950s, not the 1940s.

[@davidjansing9696]

Yep. Salesman just referenced TV, which started in about 1948. Not enough sets to assume Mr. Slater had one before about 1953.

[@hardyboy1959]

I can't believe how sexist this is! Every reference to the user was her and she and 'your girl' 11:35 like men could never handle typing!

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

The guy introducing this promo sounds like he’d be more at home busting his knuckles getting one of Chalk Outline Charlie’s no-good goons to sing so he can break the whole operation wide open, see. Damn that J. Edgar, if he’d just let him do things his way, why, those hooligans would all be in front of a judge _right this minute,_ wouldn’t you know.

[@joman66]

This guy.. pauses.. a lot.. while he's talking lmao

[@MrHmg55]

That's his carriage returning.

[@johntapp7232]

There was one particular thing these machines did really well, and that’s break down-constantly! They were excellent training for typewriter repairmen. I had about three of them, and it took just about everything I had and learned to keep one or two of these bastards going for about three months. One started out as a junker, two turned into another junker, and when three became a junker, I cannibalized their electric motors and hauled the rest to the scrapyard.

[@loveisall5520]

I gather from your snide comment that you bought junk machines and then, surprise, surprise! They acted like junk. I bought one in the 90's that was mint and in a decade of use it never, ever broke down. And I was a professional typist for a decade and still type well over 100wpm. Buying any worn-out machine, whether a car, a boat or a typewriter, will not perform to par.

[@rogerbarton497]

Mr Slater doesn't sound bright enough to run a bath, let alone a business!

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

He gets everything wrong, he’s stingy as hell, he browbeats all of his employees and, when “his” business succeeds in spite of his leadership, he takes all the credit and bonus money

[@rogerbarton497]

@@RobCamp-rmc_0 Just like most businessmen! (Myself excluded of course - which is probably why I'm skint!)

[@snufflehound]

Can the intro guy talk any more sloooowwwly?

[@tom7601]

Robot narration sounds better. He has the clipped speech and timing like we heard Mr. Obama use.

[@pauldg837]

More akin to Nixon than Obama.

[@lwilton]

@@pauldg837 I'd say pretty clearly he was at least a Lt in the Army during WW II. "Command Voice" all over his narration.

[@TheDieselbutterfly]

@@lwilton nah, navy is written all over him

[@JeffDeWitt]

@@pauldg837 He and Nixon were probably around the same age.

[@JeffDeWitt]

That guy was really pretty bad. I suspect he was reading it off of a script.