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History of the typewriter, recited by Michael Winslow

JA July 11

Micheal Winslow, the sound effects specialist of Police Academy fame, has taken part in an incredible short documentary on the history of the typewriter by artist Ignacio Uriarte.

Uriarte recorded the original sounds of 62 typewriters throughout the ages, which Winslow them replicated. According to the Book Bench:

There’s the crank and creak and “return” of early models like the 1898 Pittsburgh Visible; the soft “choosh choosh” of the 1915 Faktotum Mod. 2; the dark mechanical twang of the 1979 IBM Composer 82. It’s actually a thrilling journey, and a sad one. Machines today—they’re so characterless, aren’t they? My soft-touch keyboard hardly makes any noise at all.

History of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow from SansGil—Gil Cocker on Vimeo.


 

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