A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.
California Typewriter is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Doug Nichol, that explores the mythology attached to the typewriter, as various obsessives celebrate the physicality of the typewriter both as object and means of summoning the creative spirit. It also documents the struggles of typewriter repair shop California Typewriter.