Re: Watching TV and Film
Oh yes been through that scenario quite a few times. I do get a kick out of seeing the office equipment they have on the old tv shows like "Colombo" Mainly because he is in a lot of scenes where he is in an office asking about the suspect or the victim.
Even more fun was way back in the early eighties we rented typewriters to a lot of conventions for name tags and to some temporary offices until the home office delivered the "standard equipment" And because way back then there was actually a few movie companies that rented our equipment to type script revisions and every now and then to put one into the movie. This was before laptops and pc's were common and were really expensive and relatively rare. Forget about having laser printers to rent or carry around the country. Dot matrix printers were also rather noisy too. There were a few times they had to be warned that there really were not that many electric typewriters in the forties. Especially the IBM Selectric. Even had to find for one made for tv movie a manual typewriter that was appropriate for the time. And there were a few times our equipment was also on screen when we provided a fax or small desktop copier. Best and weirdest story I remember was one movie company had rented one of the older homes/buildings from the mid 1800's to film interior scenes. Well the problem they complained about was they had to have a separate script revision office in the home where they could "fix" the script or type the next days work. Problem was the typewriters, Ibm correcting selectrics, made enough noise that the microphones recording the actors could be heard in the background and scenes had to be reshot, or the actors were recorded again without the noise and the new voices were edited into the final copy of the film. Yes they actually called and wanted us to fix the machines to make them quieter for couple movies like that. Only thing I could do was have them move the script writers into the basement where there was enough distance and walls and floors to drown out the noise. Yes, they also had permission to stop traffic on the street in front of and behind the house to prevent traffic sounds and the noise of beeping horns from interrupting the filming. These were after all in residential neighborhoods
Oh yes been through that scenario quite a few times. I do get a kick out of seeing the office equipment they have on the old tv shows like "Colombo" Mainly because he is in a lot of scenes where he is in an office asking about the suspect or the victim.
Even more fun was way back in the early eighties we rented typewriters to a lot of conventions for name tags and to some temporary offices until the home office delivered the "standard equipment" And because way back then there was actually a few movie companies that rented our equipment to type script revisions and every now and then to put one into the movie. This was before laptops and pc's were common and were really expensive and relatively rare. Forget about having laser printers to rent or carry around the country. Dot matrix printers were also rather noisy too. There were a few times they had to be warned that there really were not that many electric typewriters in the forties. Especially the IBM Selectric. Even had to find for one made for tv movie a manual typewriter that was appropriate for the time. And there were a few times our equipment was also on screen when we provided a fax or small desktop copier. Best and weirdest story I remember was one movie company had rented one of the older homes/buildings from the mid 1800's to film interior scenes. Well the problem they complained about was they had to have a separate script revision office in the home where they could "fix" the script or type the next days work. Problem was the typewriters, Ibm correcting selectrics, made enough noise that the microphones recording the actors could be heard in the background and scenes had to be reshot, or the actors were recorded again without the noise and the new voices were edited into the final copy of the film. Yes they actually called and wanted us to fix the machines to make them quieter for couple movies like that. Only thing I could do was have them move the script writers into the basement where there was enough distance and walls and floors to drown out the noise. Yes, they also had permission to stop traffic on the street in front of and behind the house to prevent traffic sounds and the noise of beeping horns from interrupting the filming. These were after all in residential neighborhoods
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