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Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
If you remember the classic 1971 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (RIP Gene Wilder), in the penultimate scene, Charlie and Grandpa Joe go into Willy Wonka's office, where everything from the clock to the lamp to the desk is sawed neatly in half. The very first thing you see in that scene (and is only in focus for a millisecond) is a typewriter, also sawed neatly in half. Here's that typewriter:
Any guesses as to what make/model typewriter it is? Also note: the movie was filmed in Munich, Germany, so.....?
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Re: Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
It looks to be some sort of early Olympia without a front plate. Like an m40? But it has that lever on the left... I don't know.
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Re: Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
TyperwriterGuy wrote:
It looks to be some sort of early Olympia without a front plate. Like an m40?
It's not an Olympia as they never had raised ribbon spools, and the M40 is actually an Olivetti model, which the Wonka machine is not even similar to.
My guess, and I'd put money on it, is that it's an Orga Model 10, which was manufactured during the late '40s.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
If you look closely below the ribbon spool there is a decal that says "Modell 10"
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Re: Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
If you look closely below the ribbon spool you will see a cryptic series of illegible marks which plausibly say "MODELL 10" after that interpretation has been suggested!
Can't resist linking this beautiful photo of a model 9 ferreted out by Google...
a.k.a. "Die Meisterschreiber von Nürnberg"... It looks like "ORGA" on the front of the body but it sure as heck looks like "ORCA" on the paper table.
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Drayton".
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Re: Willy Wonka's Half Typewriter
Lol.
You guys are too much fun. 
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