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Film: Hitler's Secret Science
Typewriter: Continental...something.
This fascinating documentary about advanced Nazi science and weapons features several scenes of historical reconstruction, such as ones where secret memoranda are being typed up on old-fashioned typewriters. Here's a shot from the film: 
I'm not sure what the typewriter is, though. I THINK it's a Continental, but I can't I.D. the model-name.
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TV Show: Modern Family
Season 4, Episode 21 "Career Day"
Typewriter: Olympia SM-3
Notice the position of the ribbon cover...slightly askew...
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Amelia wrote:
Notice the position of the ribbon cover...slightly askew...
First thing I noticed... 
It was funny that you posted this one because someone was just telling me the other day how a character from Modern Family was using a typewriter in the show. Good photos.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Film: Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows
Typewriter: Underwood Standard
Dr. Watson (Jude Law) types up his case-notes and stories on an Underwood Standard typewriter in his study: 
TV: Two Broke Girls
Typewriter: Royal Model 10
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TV: "Agatha Christie's 'Miss Marple'"
Episode: "The Moving Finger"
Typewriters: Take your pick, man... 
Background: In this episode, the village constabulary is attempting to solve the mystery of who is writing a series of "poisoned pen" letters, which have led to multiple suicides in the local community. That explains the collection of typewriters at the local police-station.
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From The Magic of Belle Isle, Morgan Freeman says why he likes his typewriter:
Sincerely,
beak.
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Film: "Attack on Leningrad"
Typewriter: Klein Adler No. 2
In the Russian-English film "Attack on Leningrad", about the famous Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, a Russian-English journalist is trapped in the city after failing to board the airplane designated to evacuate the foreign press from the city, to Moscow.
She befriends a Leningrad policewoman, who gives her food and shelter. On her birthday, she gives her a Klein Adler No. 2. portable thrust-action typewriter as a present. 
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The Lives of Others has typewriters all over the place. The Stasi agent uses one to record the actions of the people he's monitoring. The main character receives one from a contact in West Germany and it plays a central role in the plot of the film. Best of all, any member of this message board will recognize a bit of him or herself in the Stasi nerd who gives a briefing regarding the typewriters used by several East German writers. This guy has clearly gone off the typewriter deep end.
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I had to watch that film once in university. It was a while ago, though. I forgot all about the typewriters in there!
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Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time"
Season 5, Episode 20: "Shh!"
Model: unknown 
