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Farewell ETAOIN SHRDLU

May 15 @ 2:30 pm 3:00 pm

Farewell ETAOIN SHRDLU

Directed by David Loeb Weiss
(1980, PG, 30 min.)

The 1980 film by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss shows the remarkable nightly production process for a daily newspaper and the changes to come with the transition computers. 

The title ‘etaoin shrdlu’ refers the words made by the letters of the first two columns of a type-casting machine keyboard. If I understand this correctly, the phrase was used by operators to create an ‘obvious’ mistake in a line of type to be discarded.

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Date:
May 15, 2021
Time:
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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