" TYPING SKILLS/ FIELDS OF TYPING " 1972 TYPEWRITER BASED CAREERS EDUCATIONAL FILM (Color) XD72104

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“Typing Skills: Fields of Typing” is a black-and-white 16mm short educational film produced by Coronet Films and Creative Establishment, Inc. in 1972. Coronet was known for making documentary short films that were shown in public schools from the 1940s-1980s. This particular film was made in collaboration with educational consultant Lawrence W. Erickson Ed.D. Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education. Directed by Don B. Klugman, the film is centered around the story of a young typist, during her first typing exam for a job prospect, as she ponders how she did on the exam as well as what kind of typing jobs she will have. The film shows set ups from various commercial offices during the 1970s of female typists at work doing straight copy, statistics, calculations, and typing forms. The narrator adds extra details on the specific methodology to carrying out these different typing jobs.
Opening credits: Smith Type Stop Clock face (0:10). Woman’s hands speedily type on typewriter (0:20). Close-up of Smith Type Stop Clock as it rings (0:58). Office set-up: young woman hands secretary papers she typed for typing test (1:11). Inner dialogue of young woman reflecting on her typing test (1:34). Young woman does finger drill warm up: clasps hands together and rubs palms (1:44). Concentrating on the copy (2:24). Close-up of young woman’s hands typing on Olivetti Editor 3 Typewriter (2:56). 1970s business office set up: room of young women typists doing copy typing (3:01). Typists sets the margins on the typewriter (3:20). Centering letter on the page (3:28). Woman works on copy for newspapers and magazines: close-up of double spaced paper with wide margins (3:40). Proofreader’s pen marks on first draft of copy: close-ups of different symbols and their meaning (3:52). Copy for radio, TV, and motion picture scripts: close-up of copy, dialogue and scene description on opposite sides of the page (4:15). Another woman works on a business report at various stages: outline (4:42). Rough draft with proofreader marks (4:51). Camera pans office set up (5:33). Tabular reports: numbers and statistics; close-up of financial documents (5:52). Woman prepares graph on 1970s Olympia typewriter (6:20). Typist sets up for “Tax base from Center” method for creating graph columns; narrator talks through methodology (6:40). Typist at smaller office: using typewriter for record keeping, check writing, and billing (7:51). Scenes of various office setups with big and small typist teams (8:24). Examples of various forms (8:52). Methodology for perfectly typing forms (9:18). Inserting carbon copies: woman places folded sheet of paper over the documents, replaces with paperclip once documents are fed through (9:39). Hand rotates variable line spacer on IBM typewriter (perhaps the Selectric Typewriter model) (10:02). Close-up of pleated page; used for index and file cards (10:44). Interior of student dorm, male student types away at desk with typewriter (11:37). Teacher sits in classroom and uses typewriter to prepare lessons, handouts (11:51). Homemaker sits at dining table and types out recipes, checks (12:02). Two business men sit on plane, one works on portable typewriter (12:16).
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[@quantumleap359]

I am so glad I took typing in high school in 1965. A skill I still use today, and I was the only boy in the all girl class! I recommended typing (keyboarding) to my children. They can all type proficiently.

[@flobrez2470]

I remember taking typing in school. Good old Selectric typewriter.

[@triple6758]

So very glad I had typing class. Had no idea at the time how intergrated leyboards would become. I took it so I could finish assignments faster.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Learned to type as a radio operator in the USAF, a skill that I've used nearly every working day since the mid-70s. Thanks, Uncle Sam!

[@starrlara2599]

Back in the 70s, I signed up on the Buddy Plan for the Army as a clerk typist. I got to enlist as an E3 and come out of Basic as an E5. I also had a work study job in college in the typing lab. I checked out the materials to the students, like tape recorders and headphones and books.

[@sgs1262]

wrong, no way you came out as a sergeant

[@starrlara2599]

@@sgs1262 uh wrong. I did ! because I already had two years of a civilian job. I have no idea if it was called sergeant. It was just called E5. Heck I went in as an E3. It was back in the mid 70s.

[@sgs1262]

@@starrlara2599 and the plot thickens, you're an E-5 and you don't even know you're a sergeant, weird

[@johnsoule2417]

@@sgs1262 As a clerk typist, she was not a Sergeant. She was not even a NCO. She was a Specialist 5, and paid the same as a Sergeant because the Army valued her skills. It was common for Specialists to refer to one another by their pay grades, as they had not come up through the ranks and leadership paths a Sergeant would have.

[@tsr207]

The Olivetti Editor 3 typewriter in the film looked so stylish - compared to the lumpy IBM Executive shown later . Enjoyed working on the Olivetti range - so easy to repair !

[@anthonythomas1504]

I loved the machine gun rattle of the IBM Selecric. I worked for the owner of a struggling business who, whenever he was on the phone with prospective big clients, would make us all pound away to make it sound like the place was humming. Without paper! Paper was expensive.

[@w2tty]

I remember the first time I worked in an office. I was about 17 years old, and there was a person typing in there like you see in this video at 12:30. I was so amazed how fast she could type without even looking at the paper in the typewriter.

[@duacot6633]

I had a nasty teacher in elementary school who would go out of her way to harass and belittle me. Mrs Straight at Niles Garden Elementary School out of Manteca California - this woman was the epitome of a nasty evil woman. She often would say things to the class to insult me such as accusing me "want's to be a woman" or "he's already growing his hair long". This was 7th grade, around 1984. I had been learning to write code in BASIC on a PET computer for a few years now and already had familiarity with the layout on a typewriter going back to around '78.. Oh how she would laugh at me and make fun of me in front of the entire class. She called me an idiot for sharing a belief that computes would be in every home or office and everyone would be using one regardless of what they did as a profession. Too often she would even accuse me of breaking or sabotaging typewriters when the keys would stick or the ribbons would tangle. Most of those donated typewriters were from the 20's and 30's! Coincidently I had a Computer Class during the same school year where a proper teacher, Mrs Ellis, identified I was quite knowledgeable with using a computer (Apple II's, PETs) and often would have me assist other students in the class. My father had taken me to the first 2 computer expos in San Francisco and I was quite proud of my Byte Me! t-shirt until it was deemed offensive. What I find interesting is that I have never typed on an electric typewriter.

[@dariowiter3078]

I took typing in junior high school back in the early '80s. I felt weird during the time I learned using a typewriter. 😊

[@asd36f]

Remember the old manual typewriters when two keys would jam together and had to be separated

[@DoctorShocktor]

You must be from the twenties. QWERTY keyboards were invented to prevent such jamming, unless you were a bratty kid just jamming down a bunch of random keys all at once.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

"Fields of typing. That's what you're going to spend the rest of your life mowing through. Form after meaningless form will parade before your eyes until they haunt your every dream. Even the weekend BBQs won't feel as intimate as a good tab stop setting."

[@Madness832]

Wonder if they even more delighted when word processors came out.

[@curtwuollet2912]

Typing _has_ become a Crucial skill, just not like they thought. Seen a typewriter lately?

[@new2000car]

You don’t see them anymore because they keep them covered up, they remove the vinyl cover only when they need to type something up.

[@curtwuollet2912]

@@new2000car I think you would need a shovel at the land fill to uncover them.

[@anthonythomas1504]

Keyboards are everywhere so what's your point?

[@curtwuollet2912]

@@anthonythomas1504 My only point is that the machines seemed to dissappear almost completely in short order. A word processor isnt a typewriter and most typing now is done for completely different reasons.

[@new2000car]

@@curtwuollet2912disappear ? I don’t think so. Excuse me while I send this fax. And why am I finding it so hard to find the rolls of thermopaper?

[@starrlara2599]

I also had a shag haircut like this typist. Lol

[@anthonythomas1504]

It's a Carol Brady mullet.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

My typing class was about 25 girls and 1 guy-me. I still to this day hit the keys too hard from learning on a manual. My only regret is that I didn't take short hand and home ec, which would have been unforgivable for a guy. It would have helped the rest of my life, though.

[@davidcarroll8735]

Did she get the job?

[@chuckrawlings9518]

Yes, as scriptwriter for an educational film company in Chicago (Probably kidding, but you never know)

[@Glorfindel92]

Redswitch keyboard is the best😮❤😂

[@MrDoneboy]

I remember typing class in tenth grade...All of the pretty girls...And have the class was other dudes. Bummer!

[@Jay_Dee1911]

SIRI, what is typing?

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

The dystopian nightmare that is typing

[@dariowiter3078]

What a stupid thing to say! 😖😖😖😖😖

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

@@dariowiter3078 I learned to type on an IBM Selectric and worked in a corporate typing pool, it was a monotonous and tedious job. A few years later it was replaced by computers.

[@sgs1262]

That's a beautiful girl she would probably have a better career as a model

[@DoctorShocktor]

Yeah, why be a writer, or business leader, just be a model ‘cause you’re cute. SMH

[@sgs1262]

@@DoctorShocktor you can do both, smh

[@Kato_Rin]

She probably was a model. Look how tall she is standing next to the older lady at 1:21!