Movies or TV or Books or Other with Shorthand

[Deb]

Did you watch a movie and someone used shorthand? Either pen or keyboard or steno? What about a book you're reading? Any TV shows (episode if you know which one)? Link to the IMBd page or other source so we can find it later.

For example:



Thoroughly Modern Millie

[movie, play, etc.]

Plot

In New York City in 1922, flapper Millie Dillmount is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal

[Deb]

Alex & Emma

A writer needs to write a novel in 30 days to get an advance to pay off loan sharks. He hires a manual steno shorthand writer (uses a machine and types up her notes) to take down his notes because it's faster for him to dictate then type.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0318283/

ETA: Someone once said this was a bad movie. It isn't good. You may waste 2 hours of your life on this, but I didn't find it all that bad. Only worth the cheap rental and then the $3 dvd.

[Deb]

This is a photo clip from "The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Substitute Secretary". Of course I'm not sure how she's taking dictation in the air like that...

[Deb]

A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
1934

[Deb]

Some movies have reporters and it's still required in some countries of the world. So any time you see or read about a reporter taking notes, just imagine it's shorthand....

[Deb]

Sherlock, you can see Dr. Watson taking some notes in shorthand. It looks more like Pitman or even Teeline. Since it's the modern Sherlock Holmes and set in England, it makes sense it would be Teeline.

[Deb]

I linked a picture of Dragnet the TV show of someone taking shorthand. Here is the link: greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/493/shorthand-dragnet-1950s

[Deb]

"I started a course of book-keeping and shorthand to occupy my days."
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"I enjoyed learning shorthand and book-keeping. I was humiliated by the ease with which little girls of fourteen and fifteen progressed in shorthand; at book-keeping, however, I could hold my own, and it was fun."

Christie, Agatha. An Autobiography . William Morrow Paperbacks. Kindle Edition.

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She never finished the class. In one class the teacher announced the first world war was over and Agatha Christie's husband came home. Then she got pregnant and had a baby. If there's more I'll add it, but that's where I'm at now.

I'm guessing, since it's England, some sort version of Pittman shorthand.

[lvw]

Let's not forget to include David Copperfield. Dickens was a shorthand writer, and this book has a number of quasii-autobiographical episodes in it, including David's self-taught lessons in stenography.

[Deb]

I'm sure, Rita Skeeter, a reporter, used shorthand... Although Harry did read the notes her quick quill was taking, so maybe not when using the quick quill? Though her being a witch, maybe she could use a charm or spell so the pen could write as quick as shorthand in longhand.

[Deb]

A 1944 Saturday Even Post had this picture for a story.
The magazine is on Internet Archive.