Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former ...
Jezebel

Breaking: Mavis Beacon Isn't a Real Person, Couldn't Give a Shit About Your Typing

For anyone who grew up learning how to type from Mavis Beacon (back in the day when computer programs were advertised in catalogs and came in over-sized boxes), this news will come to you as a bit of ...
The Atlantic

A Film That Could Fix Our Relationship With the Internet

When the filmmaker Jazmin Jones was growing up, she thought of Mavis Beacon—the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a popular educational game first released in 1987—as a living and breathing ...
Variety

‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Director Jazmin Jones Investigates the Story of the World’s Most Famous and Fictitious Typing Teacher

Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 million ...
Yahoo

‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: A Joyous Look at a Shadowy Pop Culture Figure

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is a documentary about (stick with me here) seeking Mavis Beacon. But, what it is not (and stick with me here, too) is a documentary about finding Mavis Beacon. Because whether ...
Mashable

She taught a generation to type. But who is the real Mavis Beacon?

Regarding her search for the "real" Mavis Beacon, digital artist Jazmin Jones says: "We want to hear from you." Credit: JAZMIN JONES / OLIVIA MCKAYLA ROSS / JULES RETZLAFF / OWEN SMITH CLARK / IAN ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: An Enlightening Debut Doc Dives Into the Past to Ponder the Digital Future

Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the '80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic If you came of ...
Hyperallergic

Where Is Mavis Beacon, the Woman Who Taught Us to Type?

Director and filmmaker Jazmin Jones examines original photos of Renée L''Espérance, the model for the titular character of the educational software program Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987), from a ...
Kotaku

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2020

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