Doug Nichol
@Doug_Nichol
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Filmmaker.
San Francisco / Paris
Joined September 2010
@bennyjohnson It was already part of the RISK game board in 1959. From Greenland to the Panama Canal. Gets you 5 points per turn.
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@AmandaMilius I took a screenwriting class from your Dad at USC. Best class ever - he’d order in cheeseburgers from the 901 and spend 2 hours telling incredible stories. People were crying from laughing so much.
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RT @sfchronicle: The personal computer may have overtaken the typewriter but it could not overtake Herb Permillion, the quiet wizard of Cal…
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RIP to the great Herb Permillion. He was a man with a huge heart who loved typewriters. No one could fix an IBM Selectric like Herb could. Love to the Permillion family. #californiatypewriter #typewriters
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@sriramk For every act of creation, life also creates the same amount of resistance to that creation.
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@BobWeide We’re living in a world of lies propagated by digital technology. Truth had a better chance during the analog era.
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@walterkirn That’s what happened in George R. Stewart’s “Earth Abides” - after the “event” it will be “Year One” chiseled in stone.
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The great David McCullough has died. It was so amazing to spend a day on Martha’s Vineyard filming him for “California Typewriter.” Such an incredible man. He sent me a beautiful typewritten letter on his Royal KMM after the film came out. RIP. #davidmccullough
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RT @Criterion: Doug Nichol's fantastic documentary CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER features interviews with typewriter enthusiasts like Tom Hanks and…
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RT @connorratliff: Was not prepared for the late night gut punch of watching the documentary California Typewriter in 2020. Sam Shepard is…
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