or “Try not to look at the keyboard.” Or maybe you remember the polished, professional Mavis Beacon herself, in her boxy computer-animated blazer, or the graphic of her hands transparently poised over ...

Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

In Seeking Mavis Beacon, filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross aim to track down one of the most iconic figures in multicultural education and internet history. With over 10 million ...

Unsurprisingly, viewers learn that the character Mavis Beacon was the creation of three white men: Les Crane, Walt Bilofsky ...

Note: This review was originally published during Sundance 2024. We're reposting it because Seeking Mavis Beacon is now out in theaters. With a healthy dose of heart and whimsy, the Sundance ...

In 'Seeking Mavis Beacon,' two women try to find the real person behind an educational software from the '80s. 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' Review: Enlightening Doc Ponders Digital Age ...

Through the late 1980s and ’90s, one woman was responsible for guiding a generation of students into the computer age: Mavis Beacon, star of the best-selling educational software “Mavis Beacon ...

The new documentary “Seeking Mavis Beacon” dives into the story of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program first developed in the late 1980s. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We ...

Seeking Mavis Beacon Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. In theaters. Seeking Mavis Beacon. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

Neon releases “Seeking Mavis Beacon” in theaters beginning August 30, first at IFC Center in New York before the movie expands to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago on September 6, with a ...