I did take a look at the first ones just now.  Funny, I thought I had seen an Underwood SX-100 on the right hand side in the preview.  The one used by the lady in the blue dress on the left I am not sure.  But the one behind her in the checkered blue and white dress looks to be using a Remington painted a smooth silveer--not unlike two I had seen that were made under license in France.

TypewriterKing wrote:

I don't know about anyone else, but it looks like they stole the medallion off the front of an old taxicab and stuck it on the front of a '56 Underwood.  

They did do a beautiful job in restoring the outside of it, though.  I have a typewriter that looks almost just like that a friend gave me several years ago.  His son and I went to school together (he's a friend also, as is his mother).  He died a year or so ago, and I keep it in his memory.  I always loved using that typewriter every since I was 13.
 

The Underwood they used in "Populaire," was like many typewriters I'd seen in movies and television programs of the 1950s.  One such typewriter was the one in the movie "Godzilla."  Raymond Burr played an investigative reporter visiting a friend in Japan, where a prehistoric monster was resurrected by Atomic bombs (wasn't everything then?).  Anyway, Raymond Burr was at the front of this machine, which by the way, had tape over the "Underwood" label on the back cover (which for some reason gets lost alot on these machines).  And, I know this is a very old thread, but I have a question.  But before I ask it, I will observe that toward the end of this vignette, Raymond Burr was supposed to be typing, but from the sound the typewriter was making, he was only using the space bar.  And now the question:  In these movies,  how many of the "typists" are actually typing something?  Have you ever wondered when you hear the clacking of keys, whether or not (when you can't see what they're typing) they were typing something, and if so, what?  Some movies that do a closeup of what's being printed you can see, but when you can see the back of the typewriter, the typist, nothing else, and you hear typing, what is this dude (or dudette) putting on the page?

The actresses in Populaire had typing lessons - I have the DVD and there's an interview with the lead, and she talks a lot about how they had to undertake formal training as part of the preparation. But if you look in the competition scenes, her finger form is not good! So they ARE typing, but if there's a close-u of the page it will be one that was done separately, and the sound effects are obviously just that; no one was even possibly typing as fast as it sounds like, after two weeks of lessons! Even if they pretended they would just have jammed the keys.

Sorry to be thick, but I just went over this whole thread, and - what music video?