" 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
    @quantumleap359 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can truly appreciate the enormous saving of time and effort that electronic memory typewriters, and then computers, gave us.

  • @flobrez2470
    @flobrez2470 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @triple6758
    @triple6758 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
    @PlasmaCoolantLeak ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
    @starrlara2599 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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
      @sgs1262 ปีที่แล้ว

      wrong, no way you came out as a sergeant

    • @starrlara2599
      @starrlara2599 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @sgs1262 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @johnsoule2417
      @johnsoule2417 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @w2tty
    @w2tty ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 1984, I took Typing 101, in high school. We learned on big, manual Olympia typewriters, and we learned many of the techniques shown in this film. It's absolutely the most useful course I ever took. I only wish I'd taken Shorthand too.

  • @tsr207
    @tsr207 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
    @anthonythomas1504 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin2648 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "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."

  • @dariowiter3078
    @dariowiter3078 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @asd36f
    @asd36f ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @DoctorShocktor
      @DoctorShocktor ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @onenewworldmonkey
    @onenewworldmonkey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @duacot6633
    @duacot6633 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @OofusTwillip
      @OofusTwillip หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like that horrible teacher felt so threatened by your superior knowledge that she felt the need to lash out at you, every chance she got. Any teacher who feels threatened by having an intelligent student has no business being in the profession. A teacher should be excited to nurture an unusually intelligent student.
      I had a horrible teacher too, when I was in Grades 5 & 6. A child-psychiatrist told my parents to get me out of that school ASAP. Wisely, they found a much better school for me, where I thrived.
      Several years later, I had a summer job as a palm-reader at the Canadian National Exhibition, and who should enter the tent but that horrible teacher and the poor fish she'd hooked into marrying her.
      I guilelessly blurted out a cheerful welcome, inviting them to sit in the waiting area while I finished with my current client.
      She looked like she'd seen a ghost. When I glanced up again, she and her husband were gone. My manager said the woman had grabbed her husband's hand, and they'd both left the tent at top-speed.
      I'm sure that, once they were far enough away, she'd told her husband, "I always KNEW that kid knew too much!"

  • @curtwuollet2912
    @curtwuollet2912 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @new2000car
      @new2000car ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @curtwuollet2912 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @anthonythomas1504
      @anthonythomas1504 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keyboards are everywhere so what's your point?

    • @curtwuollet2912
      @curtwuollet2912 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @new2000car ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
    @starrlara2599 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I also had a shag haircut like this typist. Lol

  • @Madness832
    @Madness832 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @OofusTwillip
      @OofusTwillip หลายเดือนก่อน

      As someone who learned those techniques on a manual typewriter, I sure was!

  • @davidcarroll8735
    @davidcarroll8735 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Did she get the job?

    • @chuckrawlings9518
      @chuckrawlings9518 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Glorfindel92
    @Glorfindel92 ปีที่แล้ว

    Redswitch keyboard is the best😮❤😂

  • @Jay_Dee1911
    @Jay_Dee1911 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SIRI, what is typing?

  • @MrDoneboy
    @MrDoneboy ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @sgs1262
    @sgs1262 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @DoctorShocktor
      @DoctorShocktor ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @sgs1262
      @sgs1262 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DoctorShocktor you can do both, smh

    • @Kato_Rin
      @Kato_Rin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @DemocracyDiesInDarkness
    @DemocracyDiesInDarkness ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The dystopian nightmare that is typing

    • @dariowiter3078
      @dariowiter3078 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a stupid thing to say! 😖😖😖😖😖

    • @DemocracyDiesInDarkness
      @DemocracyDiesInDarkness ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.