U.S. NAVY ADVANCED TYPING DUPLICATING AND MANUSCRIPT TYPEWRITER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 58184

This 194? black and white US Navy Training Film MN-1512d Advanced Typing - Duplicating and Manuscript provides the basics for using a typewriter to prepare masters for duplication. Various typewriters are shown in use. A female Navy instructor explains how to make a master for duplicating machines. This includes placing the sheet inside the Copi-Rite stencil holder, shifting the ribbon indicator to the stencil position, inserting it into the typewriter, and adjusting the paper bail rollers. A burnisher and correction fluid are used to fix errors. The finished copy is proofread on an illuminated drawing board. A ruler is used to draw boxes around text (:42-4:35). A Ditto hectograph ribbon is pulled from a drawer. A 1940s Remington Rand typewriter is used. Errors are corrected with a special hectograph wax pencil, shown in many colors (4:36-7:10). An IBM Electromatic International typewriter uses a carbon paper ribbon (7:11-8:00). Stains from hectogram ribbon are cleaned using Autocopy Cleansing Cream (8:09). For the photographic offset process, special paper or a thin metal sheet is used on the IBM Electromatic carbon ribbon machine (8:20-9:15). A comparison between regular typewriter margins and the Underwood Justifying typewriter is shown. Copy is shown on the Electromatic Proportional Spacing Machine (9:16-9:29). The Varityper (Varitype) Composing machine is used for hectograph, mimeograph, and offset duplicating. A closeup is shown of the interchangeable type plates. A plate is changed to smaller print on the next line (9:30-10:25). Type is explained. Shown up close and verified with a ruler is Pica 10 pitch and Elite 12-, 14-, 16- and 18-pitch. A sheet of Type Styles with typed examples is shown. Pica is measured with a ruler down the side. Examples of how many lines to the inch are shown (10:46-12:45). Paper is slightly fanned. A ruler is used to make 3” up from the bottom of the page to leave room for footnotes (12:58-13:40). Poorly spaced and carefully spaced copies are shown (13:48-14:26). For non-standard characters, a degree symbol uses the platter rolled back and a small o. A division sign uses a dash backspaced over with a colon. A Sterling is a L with a small f backspaced over top of it. An exclamation point is an apostrophe and a backspaced period added (14:27-16:42). Copy is marked up with proofreader marks, which are explained in detail (16:42-19:40). How to center copy using the margins on the carriage and backspacing to count letter is shown on an IBM International typewriter (19:42-24:27). Paper is put into a Royal typewriter (25:05).
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[@bletheringfool]

What I love about this, is that she is not doing a fancy voiceover. She is talking while she is doing the work and explaining as she goes. A proper expert who not only knows what she is doing, but can explain it so anyone can understand

[@joannemackown5572]

I went to work age 16 in 1964 in England and we used stencils for many years and printed off on a Gestetner machine. It was the only way to make numerous copies. Making a mistake on the stencil was awful to put right and it made you nervous. We put the stencil on the inked drum of the Gestetner with no wrinkles and turned the handle or if it was electric it started up. After we took off the stencil it was put on the backing sheet and filed in a cupboard with hanging rails. I learnt to touch type age 14 at school and in an exam if you had to draw a table you went out to the front once you had typed your document where a desk had bottle of red ink and a pen nib in a wooden holder and ruler and drew the lines of the table. We used to put dots in the corners and other places using the typewriter on stet so we had impression of the dots to line up the ruler so the lines were straight. We used to type to music. Teddy bears picnic was one I liked and we typed exactly on the notes. We used carbon paper copies for everything.

[@dave1234aust]

I wanted to learn at school but the lesson was "girl's only". It was thought most girls would become secretaries etc. The Army taught me up to 25wpm although I managed to get 65+ later on. We used Gestetner machines in the Army right up to the late 80's - more so in the field. I can still smell the red correction fluid to this day lol.

[@AtelierDBurgoyne]

Thanks for sharing all that super interesting information!

[@bwhog]

Yeah, music to create steady and even typing was common. The thing is that if you're trying to figure out where to put things, having that millisecond to think between strokes actually helps speed you up because you make fewer errors and have fewer pauses while trying to reorient yourself. The same thing was emphasized on the Comptometer and other adding machines of the day for exactly the same reason. Fortunately, I never had to endure hours of "Teddy bears" picnic in a class since I was self-taught! 😁

[@pinkmagicali]

I just got an old typewriter repaired and it has a stencil setting on it but I didn't know what it was for. Thanks for this. :)

[@jamespatrick2683]

Yes, the stencil setting basically set the typewriter so the ribbon would NOT come up, so that when you typed the key would cut into the blue mimeograph stencil paper. Then when the completed blue stencil page was wrapped onto the mimeograph drum the ink inside the drum would "bleed thru" the key cuts, forming the typed letters. I used to use one in 1970 when I was transferred from Vietnam to Hawaii. I typed all day long on those blue stencil pages to create typed orders for the troops. No Xerox machines back then.

[@dadtype2339]

Mr. Sacks Wife? Wow this was a cool video really helps to show Stencil work on a typewriter, and this was Really High Tech in its day, now it's very antiquated (old). Thumbs up, thank you! ❤

[@captainkeyboard1007]

The VariTyper might as well been the first word processor. The editing methods used in the 1940s are commensurate with modern keyboarding.

[@derecwilsom4546]

7:30 holy crap

[@andreiconstantinescu5163]

Fi like this lesson very much

[@urmenyi]

The world was much happier then.

[@mkeysmith4027]

this video was probably made in or around 1943. also if you can find anymore videos of Lenore fenton (that's the name of the lady in the video ) I would be grateful if You could plz post them. thank You for sharing thisd vkdeo:)

[@kfl611]

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[@kfl611]

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[@hakdok649]

It says the coldwar and vietnam ww2 is over by then

[@armandogonzalezrn]

This lady sounds like Lily Tomlin

[@BrokebackBob]

...and God gave the Earth and it's creatures the Xerox Copying Machine and He saw that it was good.

[@sharronneedles6721]

-Staples 4:19

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

No, God gave people who made a real study of their job. And became proficient in it. Let's give credit where credit's due. This woman knows what she's doing.

[@karlmeyer9473]

No. Satan enslaved us with dirty computers. Smash them, free yourself, lead a good wholesome life and love your typewriter.

[@archkull]

@@karlmeyer9473 its satan alright, if satan is unscrupulous industrialism and consumerism

[@mharris5047]

@@karlmeyer9473 Having typed the equivalent of several million pages (and wore out five typewriters) over my lifetime I can say that I would rather use a computer and printer than a typewriter. I estimate I type about 70-80 words per minute on a good day. Manual typewriters are much harder to type on quickly than electric typewriters or computers. Also, the proofreader marks take me back to my newspaper editing days. I think I remembered about half of them but it has been over 40 years since I did the job. I don't know if they are still used or not. I knew one editor that created a list of mistakes and a corresponding number instead (he was also a university English teacher so he used the list with his students as well, most English students were unfamiliar with proofreader marks). I also know of one HS English teacher that used a similar list.

[@ruwhite6312]

PF# 58184 00:09:20:13

[@collegeman1988]

Thank God for the personal computer and word processing software programs. The leap in technology when it came to typing, editing and reproducing is even greater than the difference between many, many monks writing copy onto parchment and the printing press.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

I like the microcomputer with business productivity programs like Microsoft Office 2019 Professional programs and a laser printer. The software does the mundane and hard tasks such as centering a page, calculating and measuring margins and spaces. I use Microsoft Word predominately for keyboarding tasks, but I use the other application programs for heavy-duty tasks that are done easier than the old-fashioned way. Editing a document or a file on the computer is much easier than on paper and with a typewriter. I use Microsoft Excel for number-crunching jobs; Microsoft Access for managing information in a database, Microsoft Publisher to make magazine-like pages, Microsoft PowerPoint for making presentation slides that can be shown on a projector screen, and Microsoft Outlook for desktop management. I learned how to use a typewriter when I was 12 years-old. When I was young, I was fortunate to typewrite my homework assignments, because typewriting made them neat and quicker to finish. I guess that is why they don't call me Captain Keyboard for nothing.

[@dglcomputers1498]

When AMSTRAD released the "cheaper than most typewriters" PCW word processors (essentially CP/M compatible machines with word processing software included) the only issue they had selling them was that they heavily underestimated demand and didn't have enough available, even though initially it only had a dot matrix printer (use of other printers needed an addon board) and somewhat non standard 3" disks.

[@collegeman1988]

@@dglcomputers1498 Not being able to keep up with demand is something America Online also experienced in 1996 when they went from charging users an hourly fee to use their service, which included surfing the World Wide Web (brand new technology unavailable to most households up to this point) to a flat monthly fee of $20. Unfortunately, America Online did not have enough local telephone numbers for all these brand new subscribers and most users encountered busy signals on their dial up modems when trying to use their service. I worked for a company at that time that did an opinion survey via telephone asking subscribers to rate their experience with America Online, if they were able to access their service, and how likely they would be to continue to subscribe when given other bits of information about America Online’s commitment to their customers. It was a much, much better strategy than other online companies such as Microsoft’s online service which did absolutely nothing when their subscribers couldn’t get through.

[@nennylee48]

I can smell the coppies :)

[@kfl611]

hecoto - who? It's like she's talking a different language. I guess she is, it is 1940's technospeak. And dig that crazy hair do! And those crazy wide lapels! They look nice though.

[@mangamaster03]

I belive she said hectograph.

[@curtwuollet2912]

These go in with my large store of now obsolete knowledge.

[@Selectrolux]

This is from an era when people had to learn how to be skilled at things. Nowadays, technology has given rise to a whole generation of people who have no idea how to "problem solve."

[@straightpipediesel]

It's the opposite. Remember that this was a secretary: her sole job here was to listen to a recording of a letter and type it out. The person actually writing the letter didn't know how to type or know how to use tab stops or how to justify type. Typing was a specialized skill that only secretaries did. Even computer programmers wrote stuff out by hand and gave it to a female keypunch operator. That's why if you watch vintage movies, computers were always voice command: people didn't believe an ordinary person would know how to type. This was true through the late 1970s. Now everybody knows how to type, and now everybody knows how to fiddle with tab stops and paragraph settings in Word because we have to.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

@@straightpipediesel That was the stupidest comment I've ever read. And that's saying something for KZbin. What an insult to this lady. Here was somebody who was a professional secretary, and who took pride in her job and was good at what she did. And you're not even going to give her credit for that?! And where did you get the idea that typing was only for secretaries? Most men in the business field had to learn how to type to some degree. Get your facts straight.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

I fully agree with your statement. This lady was what you would call a true professional. Something that's lacking in the second decade of the 21st Century. Being a secretary was and is no easy task. But back in the forties, I can imagine it was a heck of a lot of work more skill and knowledge. I wish I would have learned from her.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus You completely misunderstand and are simply ignorant of past history. You are clearly a millennial who has no idea what things were before computers. If you think she's actually writing a letter, you are dead wrong. She is listening to a dictation machine, or reading shorthand, and typing it out. Watch some of the other videos, they explicitly give instructions on using a Dictaphone. This was how office work happened until word processing on PCs became big in the late 80s. As I said, only the secretary typist knew how to type and how to use tab stops and justification. The business person only knew how to dictate letters. Today, the typist is fired, one person has to know both skills.

[@toddc5619]

@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus You're the idiot here who's calling people names. He's absolutely correct. When I went to high school in 1974, there was a room full of typewriters and a "business" class, which was almost all women, who had learned how to type from recordings and how to run a typewriter. Like he said, in business we never typed anything ourselves until they fired the "typist pool" when computers came. The last time I had a secretary type something out was probably 1990.

[@karlmeyer9473]

Bet you German Navy ladies are better at typing.

[@archkull]

not anymore

[@archkull]

@Fast Cara who is this toward

[@archkull]

​@Fast Cara i dont see how it is but he is wrong anyway haha, german military anything is a gigantic joke now. (im german)