I know the gray fives like the back of my hand.
Typewriter repair people colloquially called the Underwood Touchmaster 5 the "gray fives".
via Jim Tuxbury on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1355024096816361
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Spotted in Finding Forrester (2000) Forrester and Jamal are both typing on Underwood typewriters. The brighter one is a Underwood Five and the darker one is a Underwood SX-100.
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Underwood Touchmaster 5 Typewriter Tabulator Decelerator Demo Operation by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
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For those who have an Underwood 5 typewriter as featured in the movie Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000), it bears saying that Forrester (Sean Connery) would admonish you to:
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Forrester: No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!
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In this quote from Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000) Forrester (portrayed by Sean Connery) turns the idea that writing is thinking on its head.
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