Advanced Typing - Shortcuts 1943 US Navy Training Film MN-1512c; Lenore Fenton

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'...Importance of posture and arrangement of equipment. How to use tab stops, tab bar, decimal tabulator and carbon packs, and how to remove or insert words and letters, make erasures and type cards, envelopes and labels.' Produced by De Frenes & Co.

Originally a public domain film, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing

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Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin, the daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first practical typewriter.

User interface features such as spell checker and autocomplete serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make...

The basic technique stands in contrast to hunt and peck typing in which the typist keeps his or her eyes on the source copy at all times. Touch typing also involves the use of the home row method, where typists keep their wrists up, rather than resting them on a desk or keyboard (which can cause carpal tunnel syndrome). To avoid this, typists should sit up tall, leaning slightly forward from the waist, place their feet flat on the floor in front of them with one foot slightly in front of the other, and keep their elbows close to their sides with forearms slanted slightly upward to the keyboard; fingers should be curved slightly and rest on the home row.

Many touch typists also use keyboard shortcuts when typing on a computer. This allows them to edit their document without having to take their hands off the keyboard to use a mouse...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Fenton_MacClain

Lenore Fenton MacClain (née Lenore Fenton) was a championship typist and typewriting educator. She won numerous international typewriting awards and international records in typing.

Biography

She first appeared on the typewriting scene in a typewriting competition in Toronto on August 28, 1937, where she won the novice title with 87 words per minute.

In 1944, she starred in United States Navy typewriting training films, where she demonstrated proper touch typing technique, useful typewriter tips and tricks (such as rapid envelope addressing), and typing up to 180 words per minute on an electric typewriter with a QWERTY layout.

She became one of the students of August Dvorak and was reported to write 180 words per minute using a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, a number later admitted to be a typo instead of 108. Earlier, she won the world championship on a Dvorak keyboard in Tenth Annual International Commercial Schools Contest in Chicago, June 19, 1946, by typing 131 net words per minute. In another article in 1945, she is quoted to be able to type up to 182 words a minute on Dvorak.

In the 1950s, along with J. Frank Dame, she co-authored a book Typewriting Techniques and Short Cuts, which saw a few editions.

She died on March 9, 2005 and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery. Her Electromatic typewriter with a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout is in the collection of the National Museum of American History...