| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
David McCullough, Herbert Permillion III, Jeremy Mayer, John Mayer, Ken Alexander, Martin Howard, Mason Williams, Sam Shepard, Tom Hanks |
| Event |
Originally produced by Gravitas Ventures LLC in 2016. |
| Summary |
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. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and others fighting to preserve or re-embrace analog life." - Gary Goldstein, **The Los Angeles Times*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Popular culture.
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media.
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History, Modern.
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History.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Nichol, Doug, film director.
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McCullough, David, actor.
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Permillion III, Herbert, actor.
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Mayer, Jeremy, actor.
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Mayer, John, actor.
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Alexander, Ken, actor.
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Howard, Martin, actor.
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Williams, Mason, actor.
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Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017, actor.
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Hanks, Tom, actor.
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Gravitas Ventures (Firm) Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
5326117 Kanopy |
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