Invisible wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   Example (when talking bout L.A. Confidential):
>>
>> "A newspaper dated 1953 has headlines set in Helvetica Black (1959) and
>> Univers (1957) - typefaces which weren't commonly available in the U.S.
>> until the sixties."
> 
> My God... That's *advanced*!
> 
> How the hell can you tell which typeface it is??

I guess if that's your area of expertise...

I know a guy who's really good at engineering history - tools, 
instruments and so forth. He'll watch a movie like Titanic and say "that 
make of binoculars weren't in maritime use until 1919", or Saving 
Private Ryan and say "that Panzer's markings are from the 45th battle 
group, which weren't deployed in Northern France at all" or something. 
I'm making up these examples, obviously! :-)

No different from some of the geekery on display here... ;-)

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