Summary: Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved, but dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2017
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003