The Twenty-Six Old Characters (1947)

★★★★★ · Alphabet and Fountain Pen history · epeterd · 2022-04-02

Interesting film that starts with the history of writing from primitive cave paintings, to hieroglyphics, to the alphabet we use today. After that is the history of writing utensils up to the modern fountain pen. Really neat film.

★★★★ · The price of Ink · Spuzz · 2017-07-12

Well, this was a surprise, a mini-history of the alphabet and the modern fountain pen, told seamlessly and (excuse the expression) fluidly here for the 20 minute time frame. Although the Alphabet is given a bit too brief of a history, the film does show major developments in the forms, and gives a bit of interesting trivia to go along with it. The pen (since, yes, this film is brought to you by a pen company) is given more of the attention here as we see how the modern pen came to be, how it works, and some new advancements in pen technology (A push button ink sucker! Say it isnt so!).…