Damien Parer’s Remington portable typewriter was made in the USA, issued by the US company Paramount Pictures Corporation through the Chartres Business Service who imported them into Australia.

The Remington Portable is incomparably strong and durable. It is the favorite machine of the explorer, which is evidence of is absolute reliability, even under the hardest and most exacting conditions.

Remington Portable

The modern way to write

Remington Portable

Smallest and lightest typewriter with standard keyboard

In the Mitchell Library manuscript collection there are typewritten ‘Ideas for Shorts’ by Damien Parer, Pararmount News (July 12^th 1944) that could have been done on this typewriter. There are also official typewritten letters from Damien Parer, War Correspondent to people such as Sir Keith Murdoch. Most of Parer’s copious notes, personal letters and diaries are hand written.

The Remington Portable is a compact, convenient and complete typewriter, built for the personal use of every man, woman, and child who writes.

Chester Wilmot, war correspondent and friend of Parer, wrote to his widow: ‘He was such a fine man as well as a brilliant photographer. He made the camera speak as no other man I've ever known and his films gave an immortal portrait of the Australian soldier of this war.’