Media item

Demonstartion with a stenotypewriter

Week number 28-28

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:13
Publication date:
1 December 1928
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER282-HRE00015683

The French inventor Grandjean demonstrates "typewriter" for stenography called "Stenotype". SHOTS: -man shows the camera a sort of small typewriter with 11 long keys and a small paper roll 12" -close up machine 5"; -speed contest between an "ordinairy" typist and someone operating the new machine 20"+22"; -medium shot hands operating the new machine 9".