Modern Business Machines (1947)
• January 1st, 1947 • 0h 17min
Documentary
Overview
An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing. Among the machines shown are Diebold's Flofilm microfiche recorder, the Fileomatic Desk, the Pierce Electronic Wire Recorder, the Soundscriber with plastic disk, the Elliott Stencil Machine with Graphotype machine, the Davidson Duplicator for litho printing, the Davidson Folder for letters, the Varityper, the Autotypist Perforator, the IBM Chinese character typewriter, and speed typist Stella Pajunas, using an IBM Model A Electric Typewriter, who set a one-hour typing speed record in 1946 of 140 net five-stroke words per minute.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Business of America
Released on: 1984-05-01
Documentary
An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's dec...
Machines
Released on: 2017-11-30
Documentary
This portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
California Typewriter
Released on: 2017-08-18
Documentary
A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and techno...
The Other Half Of The Sky
Released on: 2016-09-22
Documentary
They are four of the most successful businesswomen in China: Belonging to a generation who experienc...
Reengineering SAM
Released on: 2016-06-01
Documentary
Sam Schmidt lived out his boyhood dream as an IndyCar racer, winning races and earning the title of ...
Don Beveridge - Customerization Seminar
Released on: 1998-05-01
Documentary
Business speaker Don Beveridge brings his consulting expertise to a corporate engagement for Burger ...
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Released on: 2005-11-04
Documentary
This documentary takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families s...
Marjoe
Released on: 1972-07-24
Documentary
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "ch...
Crocodile in the Yangtze
Released on: 2012-04-12
Documentary
Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jac...
The King of Fish and Chips
Released on: 2019-08-20
Documentary
In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Released on: 2010-11-30
Documentary
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen r...
29 years of impunity. The phenomenon of Father Tadeusz
Released on: 2021-01-11
Documentary
A monk who got away with everything. Although much of his behavior aroused public outrage, or at lea...
Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People
Released on: 2017-09-29
Documentary
Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best a...
The Price We Pay
Released on: 2014-09-05
Documentary
A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen m...
Comprehensive School
Released on: 1962-03-13
Documentary
The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.
Reviving Japan's Economy: Breaking Free of 3 Decades of Stagnation
Released on: 2023-08-13
Documentary
Three "lost" decades of economic stagnation since the collapse of Japan's bubble era have fundamenta...
Detropia
Released on: 2012-09-07
Documentary
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great M...
Invisible Diplomats
Released on: 1965-01-01
Documentary
The film revolves around the daily operations at a business switchboard, highlighting the interactio...