It may not have the bleeps, but it certainly has the sweeps and a few creeps. Michael Winslow (aka Larvell "Motor Mouth" Jones from "Police Academy") and artist Ignacio Uriarte have teamed up to make a short film about the history of the typewriter.The film, which is just over 20 minutes long, is called "The History of the Typewriter, Recited by Michael Winslow," and is pretty much that ... sort of, if history can be recounted through sound effects alone.
Starting in 1895 and continuing to 1983, Winslow recreates the sounds of 32 different typewriters. We know, we know, it doesn't sound particularly fascinating, but maybe you've forgotten we're talking about Michael Winslow here.
In fact, if you love the sound of typewriters, guys with microphones in their mouths who look like they're about to have a stroke, or "Spaceballs," you might just think this is the greatest movie ever made. Keep reading to see for yourself.


























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Wednesday 23 June
By LPStarChaser
I was reminded of my old Olivetti portable I had in college, my various middle-school and high-school typing classes and all the movies and "secretarial pools" where I saw ans heard typewriters.
He really did get the slip-mechanism and the key return backslap down very good. Each model of typewriter, and even typewriters of the same make and model but used by different people had different sounds and different feels (from my own experience).
I understand that there is a company that makes computer keyboards that carry the same basic feel if the IBM Selectric Model M, electronically updated to handle the functions of a regular computer keyboard. They have the built-in key-stop that the Selectric did, and was used on IBM's early computer keyboards to assure users of the same kind of sure-hit that the typewriter did.
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