Double Indemnity Screenplay -- What's the font?

I have not seen that particular script, but the font for most
typewriters -- and therefore screenplays -- is Courier.

Not Courier New. Just good old fashined Courier.

The studios made it their standard so that they could judge the running
length of scripts better.

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AceDeSone RemoveThis @aol.com wrote:

> I have not seen that particular script, but the font for most
> typewriters -- and therefore screenplays -- is Courier.
>
> Not Courier New. Just good old fashined Courier.
>
> The studios made it their standard so that they could judge the running
> length of scripts better.
>

Not even close to the facts. Each brand of typewriter had its own forms, and
since they were created mechanically and not from the same molds, they were all
different.

What standardization there was came from a limited set of typewriter pitches and
point sizes.

Courier wasn't designed until the 1950s, when it was designed by Howard Kettler
for IBM; typewriters existed since the 1870s.

- Characters
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You think of writing as progressively more mechanicl over centuries, thus
more impersonal, less individual.

Mary Queen of Scotts was interviewed by the best legal minds in the UK in
the late sixteenth century. They were unable to determine whether an
incriminating letter was in her handwriting. They cut off her head anyway,
just to make sure.

In the mid-twentieth century, Alger Hiss was hung because the Woodstock
typewriter he used and then dumped by giving it to a maid was located and
then matched with the Pumpkin Papers. Both defense and prosecution agreed
that the machine made the marks on the papers. They sent him up for lying
about it.

Funny how time sneaks back to have a look sometimes.


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"Doubting Timus" <woesong.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> You think of writing as progressively more mechanicl over centuries, thus
> more impersonal, less individual.
>
> Mary Queen of Scotts was interviewed by the best legal minds in the UK in
> the late sixteenth century. They were unable to determine whether an
> incriminating letter was in her handwriting. They cut off her head
> anyway, just to make sure.
>

Sorry to be the first to inform you, there was no United Kingdom of Great
Britain in the 16th century. There was the Kingdom of England and the
Kingdom of Scotland. Mary Queen of Scots was executed at the order of the
Queen of England, Elizabeth I. When Mary's son James succeeded to the throne
of England after Elizabeth's death, he was James I of England and Ireland
(and by pretense of France) *and* James VI of Scotland.

The two crowns were only united more than a century later by the First Act
of Union, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. However, the term
United Kingdom only became official in 1800 with the Second Act of Union
which united the crown of Ireland with that of Great Britain.

> In the mid-twentieth century, Alger Hiss was hung because the Woodstock
> typewriter he used and then dumped by giving it to a maid was located and
> then matched with the Pumpkin Papers. Both defense and prosecution agreed
> that the machine made the marks on the papers. They sent him up for lying
> about it.
>

Good thing then for Martha Stewart lying is no longer a capital offense.

> Funny how time sneaks back to have a look sometimes.

I suppose you mean something here.

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Character wrote:
> AceDeSone RemoveThis @aol.com wrote:
>
> > I have not seen that particular script, but the font for most
> > typewriters -- and therefore screenplays -- is Courier.
> >
> > Not Courier New. Just good old fashined Courier.
> >
> > The studios made it their standard so that they could judge the running
> > length of scripts better.
> >
>
> Not even close to the facts. Each brand of typewriter had its own forms, and
> since they were created mechanically and not from the same molds, they were all
> different.
>
> What standardization there was came from a limited set of typewriter pitches and
> point sizes.
>
> Courier wasn't designed until the 1950s, when it was designed by Howard Kettler
> for IBM; typewriters existed since the 1870s.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Now that we've established what font it *isn't,* can someone tell me
what font it *is*?

Tom Moran
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Feuillade wrote:

> Character wrote:
>
>>AceDeSone@aol.com wrote:
>>

> Now that we've established what font it *isn't,* can someone tell me
> what font it *is*?
>
> Tom Moran
>

Yes, we do tend to get off on tangents and forget the original question.

It would be much easier to identify if you could provide a link to a site with
an image of what you're looking at.

- Character
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AceDeSone.RemoveThis@aol.com wrote:

> I have not seen that particular script, but the font for most
> typewriters -- and therefore screenplays -- is Courier.
>
> Not Courier New. Just good old fashined Courier.

Could you send some more information about it.

I have been told by screenwriters that they use Courier New,
size 12.

>
> -ADS.

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