Typing Skills: Fields of Typing. 16 mm, Instructional film. Periscope Film, 1972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvF0atKsggY.

Typing Skills: Fields of Typing <br /> Coronet Instructional Films, a division of Esquire, Inc., 1972<br /> Lawrence W. Erickson, Ed.D. Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles<br /> Production: Coronet Films and Creative Establishment, Inc.<br /> Director and Writer: Don B. Klugman<br /> Photography Robert Flaxman<br /> Editing: Barbara Kaplan

Periscope Film XD72104 archived at https://stock.periscopefilm.com/xd72104-typing-skills-fields-of-typing-1972-typewriter-based-careers-educational-film/

Alternate version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmsE6GMIR8

Warm ups of fingers

Rules of good typing - concentrate on the copy

Typewriters in the piece: <br /> - Olivett editor 5<br /> - Others...

• copy typing - types material already written or typed
• setting margins
• centering letters on page
• formatting and spacing
• double spacing with wide margins
• editor's marks

Backspace from center method for setting tab stops

Uses for typewriters:<br /> - check writing - billing - chain feeding - financial records and reports - filling in forms - carbon copies

index and file cards - inserted into a pleated page which may have lines.