This must be an extreme case:

http://www.ms-studio.com/typecasting.html

  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."

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                                                          - Warp

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On 14 Dec 2007 05:31:14 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>  This must be an extreme case:

It must indeed! 
A bad case of Train Spotter's lurgie

Regards
	Stephen

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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??

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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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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 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... ;-)

But... typefaces are *tiny*. How can you even read the text on the 
screen, never mind tell what face it is?

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Invisible wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> 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... ;-)
> 
> But... typefaces are *tiny*. How can you even read the text on the 
> screen, never mind tell what face it is?

Headlines, or close-ups if the plot demands it, I'm guessing. Either 
that or he managed to get on set and look at their props.

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Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> No different from some of the geekery on display here... ;-)

  Yeah. "The reflection on that sphere is physically incorrect." Actual case.

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Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 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 know a clone of this guy.  Furthermore, he insists on giving out this
"valuable" information in the theater WHILE everyone is trying to watch the
movie. (Was Thorazine in the Milk Duds too extreme a response?)

Best Regards,
Mike C.

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>  Yeah. "The reflection on that sphere is physically incorrect." Actual 
> case.

A lot of the car ads on TV lack proper reflections off of them. =)

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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??

People who work with fonts all the time can spot a font very quickly. 
The Comic font is commonly used in ads and is easy to spot.  Tahoma is 
common in video work (apparently it is the default font in some editing 
app).

Regards,
John

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