CORRECTING BAD TYPING HABITS WITH THE SMITH CORONA ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER 63024
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- This 1950s industrial film showcases proper typing techniques and shows how to shake off bad typing habits. It is hosted by an expert named Mr. Sax, who stresses five fundamentals of bad typing including "improper carriage return", ergonomic issues with finger strike, and bad posture. The film appears to feature a 1955 model Smith Corona Office Typewriter, also known as the Model 88, for most of the film and then switches to the new and advanced electric model at about the 14 minute mark..
Smith Corona is a US manufacturer of thermal labels, direct thermal labels, and thermal ribbons used in warehouses for primarily barcode labels. Once a large U.S. typewriter and mechanical calculator manufacturer, it expanded aggressively during the 1960s to become a broad-based industrial conglomerate whose products extended to paints, foods, and paper. The mechanical calculator sector was wiped out in the early 1970s by the production of cheap electronic calculators, and the typewriter business collapsed in the mid-1980s due to the introduction of PC-based word processing.
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Now this is what I call a professional proficient. Mr. Sax knows what he's doing. It's nice to see he had a fun personality too. Typing was and still is a good skill. And I suggested anybody who's really interested in being good at it, either on an actual typewriter. Or on your computer keyboard. Take a lesson, and it will help you out.
I learned to type on a manual. Never got the hang of electricssss... Dang. Did it again.
You should try a Brother electric typewritter. It’s perfection embodied in a light plastic body with many daisy wheels to choose!
As a freelance writer, this video has corrected my bad typing habits especially using fingertips instead of wrist or elbow action. Thanks a lot for this very informative video. It has taught me a lot and changed my life as I can now type almost like a robot. Thanks a lot.
I like those typewriting tips. Mr. Sax did an outstanding job. The young ladies did fine.
Now that, my friends, is what you call skill. Awesome.
I fully agree!
Typewriting is a valuable skill that its importance has been overlooked by many business firms who want to hire desk clerks and administrative assistants, as well as typists, or keyboard specialists. That is how many business firms hired poor workers who could not even do a job from scratch.
Do they still have "Typing Pools"?
Where I worked in the 1960's, all outgoing mail was hand written by clerks, checked by the Boss, and sent to the "Typing Pool" where each letter was randomly allocated to a typiste, who made an original (with addressed envelope) and one or two carbon copies for the record.
All was sent back to the originator to check, then signed by the Boss. Back to the clerk to fold and insert into the envelope, then off to another secretary to put through a "Franking Machine" which imprinted a stamp to the correct postal charge, and accumulated all daily totals owed to the Post Office. Then an Administration clerk would take the day's mail in bulk to the Post Office for mailing. Job Done!
No wonder all kids need a university degree these days, those simple jobs have been eliminated by computers.
I can safely say that there are no more typing pools like that. I love to show my friends the seminal film 'The Apartment' to show how big offices used to be, full of typists!
I worked in a small typing pool around 1999 in a council. They use computers but did have 1 back up electric typewriter for forms. If they do exist today it's most likely in councils.
Good Video to have for the new generation . . . . . .
The instructor was a blasted robot. He talked like one and sure typed like one. Good video though!
Wow, some nice hatred on your part. Proud of yourself?
@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus Looks like you're outvoted 21 to 1.
Lmao “blasted”
Damn, I have that typewriter, S-C Secretarial. That guy’s hands must be beefy to type that fast on it!!
Hahahahaha
Where on earth did you find this footage this thing must be older than my grandmamma: My God!
Superb Video that every beginner in Typewriting must watch..
Great lesson! So wonderful!
thanks for this amazing and informative video. thanks admin.
These old-fashioned typewriting tips fit well for me as I do modern-day typewriting which is "Keyboarding."
Training! According to Heidelberg the printing press manufacturing juggernaut, there is no other productive press operator than the American operator of their German presses. Not even the German operators. This video shows why. Perhaps also the tinkering personality of the American makes the difference.
Lovely video.
3:15 this slomotion is better than my the slo-mo mode of my ipad air 2
What he said is even useful today, even on the Microsoft office Word!
The only different is from typewriter to computer!
That poor gal looks as if she is going to push that machine off the desk. Bad robot! LOL
My carpul tunnel is acting up watching this
Supper ...Good ...exalent
Which year this video has been recordef
It's a lost art.
now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
You forgot to capitalize and punctuate.
RIP BOZO
I tried his method of carriage return on my portable but it doesn’t slide like that.
I have one how much is it worth?
I think you'll find if it is alike the typewriters in this video it could be worth hundreds, in my experience, I've brought more than 2 dozen in my time of TRC. Type Riter Collecting.
It depends a lot on condition. It seems like the portables are more desirable and therefore more costly. But the desktop models I see usually need work so they go for less. Any machine in top condition can bring good prices.
0:23 do people seriously type like that?
Yes, people did. You had to press much harder on early typewriters, not as hard as when hes demonstating the bad habit, but it happened often.
Every office had a cacophony of typewriter thwacking like that in my childhood. Those typists were fast and accurate. Accuracy was important, fixing mistakes on multiple copies was time consuming.
They often don't look at the keyboard or the paper as they type. 😉
It's weird to see they were already doing the goofy 4th wall breaking comedy back then. Can anyone confirm that this originated with military training films in response to GI's ragging on them?
This video was made to view on 2x speed.
I bet if I had a bowtie I would type faster, that's my problem
Have a look at *The History Guy* on You Tube. His bow tie helps him not only with his typing, but to speed up his rate of speech! There's no doubt that a bow tie is your great little helper.
But you can’t correct bad typing with Smith-Corona XE 1600
I can type well over 100 wpm.
so can I, on a keyboard! It is significantly harder to type consistently fast on a typewriter
Mr. Saxby really wanted out of the Infantry...
i,m of the school of hunt and peck typing and no one has complained about it yet
We should keep our paper on the left side
Who are you to contradict the wonderful bow-tie wearing typing expert, the one and only, Mr Sax ?
Ooooh! Myyy! The young secretary was molestin' Pee-Wee Herman's daddy?
LOL...too funny.
Thats Junk....check out the new electric remmington rand model
Couldn't get over the Unnamed fox fur collar brand ad. Next.
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Guy can you imagine doing that s*it for forty hours a week as a job?
Love typewriters but was never taught how to type on them. This was very helpful. Although it's obnoxious how they had women pretend to be stupid so a man could correct them. Women always did most of the typing.
Many good tips, but this format of a man showing women where they were doing it wrong probably wouldn't fly today.
i,m sure they would claim harassment and sue every one there
The man still did it better. As usual
@@BossHossStudios You got that right!
Instructions unclear, got coronavirus
What do you mean by that? Exactly?