Forrest Gump Props

I used to have a bubba gump shrimp co hat when the movie came out. I loved that hat.

You can still order them but they fasten with a velcro strip. Mine had the snaps if I remember correctly


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Also I came to think off another paper prop, the IQ test, it shouldn't be that hard
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Also, i went trough the scene where you see the letter from Apple, frame for frame, and i found a better shot, too bad it's so zoomed out. But i zoomed in and ran it trough some filters, still unclear tough...
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And also when going trough frame for frame i found out that it isn't Silicone drive but Sullivan Drive, which actually exists in Cupertino

EDIT: okay here's some new things i've found out
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Also I came to think off another paper prop, the IQ test, it shouldn't be that hard
forrestgump002.jpg


Also, i went trough the scene where you see the letter from Apple, frame for frame, and i found a better shot, too bad it's so zoomed out. But i zoomed in and ran it trough some filters, still unclear tough...
6426069.jpeg


And also when going trough frame for frame i found out that it isn't Silicone drive but Sullivan Drive, which actually exists in Cupertino

EDIT: okay here's some new things i've found out
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"ordinary CIVILIAN"
"consumer computer ÏNDUSTRY was THOUGHT to be SILLY.

bottom line : "PERSONAL COMPUTER WHICH promises to"
 
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And after "which promises to" there is one more line then there is a signature.
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Also i do think we have to make up some of the words and lines. If not someone would like to share us some photos of the real prop that they have seen on a Paramount Pictures tour or some internet site :)
 
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September 23, 1978

Mr. Forrest Gump
River Road
Greenbow, Alabama 19325

Dear investor,
Thank you for believing in our company.

Your investment in our endeavor to make computers accessible to the
ordinary citizen at a time when investing in the consumer computer
industry was thought to be silly.

That foresight, . . and most of all, your money has
made it possible for our little company to become one of the leaders in
the computer industry. It has also rewarded you with one of the most
lucrative investment returns in the history of modern finance.


... has to be .. in our line of
... personal computer which promises to


more to come...
 
Does anyone have a good typewriter font? I'm looking for a somewhat standard typewriter fonts that matches the one in this letter, it doesn't need to be a perfect match.
 
looks like...

... SOMETIMES SEEM to be INSTRUMENTAL in our line of
... personal computer which promises to

... has to be .. in our line of
... personal computer which promises to


but I'm not 100% sure on INSTRUMENTAL
best I can congnify it looks like insuthred

Could it be ...insufficient? as in
sometimes seem to be insufficient in our line of
 
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Italics represent conjectural text


One of the newest ...innovations .. to be introduced in our line of
computers is the...The "Lisa" personal computer which promises to

revolutionize the industry or
revolutionize the computer

(the Apple Lisa was the first computer with a graphical interface, named after Jobs daughter, and the first to use a mouse, and was started in 1978...)
 
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Ha! Well there you go!:lol Questions answered! Wonder why the first line is blurred out..(edit.. oh I see)
 
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