California Typewriter

2017 • 104 minutes
4.2
12 reviews
100%
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Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.

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4.2
12 reviews
Celia Marcks
October 3, 2020
It took me back to better times, the 1950' s when I had a typing class, & loved it. I am a writer now, and want to right my first book, but I don't want to use a computer or handwrite it out. I love the sound of a typewriter, it inspires me to write, loading the paper, watching the keys hit the paper, everything about a typewriter makes me feel like writing. I enjoyed watching this Documentary, it made me want a typewriter so bad, after watching this I feel obsessed to get one asap!.
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Henry Cottrell
August 2, 2020
This movie took me back to when i worked on typewriters in 1969 first trained on Underwood. Some that were used in ww2. Then..olivetti..adler...loyal...remington... Smith corona...hermese..Ibm.
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John Cannon
August 22, 2019
A movie about typewriters? A movie with Tom Hanks and other famous musicians, screenplay writers, and historians about the importance of typewriters for personal thoughts, communications, and professional success? Short answer? Yes. Long answer? A must see film for much much more... all from California Typewriter.
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