Were all the pages of Jacks “all work and no play” novel actually typed?
Yes they were, although Johnson has said that Kubrick used an electric typewriter with a small built-in memory capacity to type the pages. The typewriter could be fed with a phrase and left to repeat it ad infinitum. GS adds: I am sorry to disagree with Diane Johnson, but I think this is a complete myth. I have clear memories of Margaret Adams, the production secretary, telling me how she and several other typists had to type all those pages out. According to the internet movie database, several foreign language versions of Jack’s novel were also typed out. Although GS states this is incorrect too: “To my knowledge these different versions were simply used in the subtitles for the foreign versions.” However Vincent Pappalardo writes: In the French version, there actually is the shot of pages typed in French (with a different sentence typed). I don’t know about other versions, but I guess it wasn’t just done for France. And Francis Catellier-Poulin adds: The translation for “All work an
