the last typewriter

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Godrej and Boyce , based in Mumbai, India was the last company in the world to manufacture the machines. They are closing down their production plant with just a few hundred units left in stock . Demand for the typewriters has gone down in the last ten years as consumers switch to computers . Many articles have appeared recently about the demise of

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The humble typewriter revolutionised the way we work, becoming an essential piece of office equipment for the best part of a century . Re more: George Orwell- Author of “1984”

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In the creative hands of Keira Rathbone the old manual typewriter could produce stunning artwork Portrait of Nicole Kidman

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The old exploding portable machine becomes an objet d’art when photographed in a frozen moment.

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An old machine is sculpted into an angry face. Spare parts are moulded into a bust, permanent witness of a by gone era.

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Next is a short video that I made, as a tribute to a tool, an instrument that marked its time, in the hands of journalists, script writers, novelists, poets and many more.

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In the next video, Leroy Anderson’s “The Typewriter” is performed by Viennese Percussionist Martin Breinschmid , live at the BASF concert hall Ludwigshafen, Germany 2008, with the Strauß Festival Orchestra Vienna. Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975, an American composer of short, light concert pieces, wrote “The Typewriter ” for orchestra in 1950. Jerry Lewis playing the typewriter in mid-air made the piece famous, in public and on television.

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