For what help it gives, the movie was in 1973. So I'd say we're hunting for a film type, not a font. My Photo-Lettering book is too old for this (I have Vol 2 & 3 on order), so someone else will have to hunt. I checked the Solotype Catalog, and no luck there.

Though this isn't an exact match, it's somewhat close in style: Fillmore.

Thanks Mike and Cheshire. My interest in this type is not for a new project, but to recreate the title and credits exactly. If I can't do that with a digital font I guess my next best plan will be to find a source (type book or ?) that can be scanned. Ah, back to cut and paste. Any more suggestions?

The more I look at it, I'm thinking it might be lettering. There are a lot of inconsistencies among the characters. Take a look at this, especially the A's:



It could just be distortion due to the low resolution of the scan, or it could indicate hand work.

--Mark, down at the forensics lab

My type library isn't so extensive that I can say I have books about the types of the 60's and 70's, which is what I think you need. You might try Googling or using AbeBooks to search for books with those keywords, or seek out a good library with a graphic arts section. For some reason this era seems to be one that the Solotype Catalog doesn't have very much for. If someone else here has some of the newer phototype catalogs, that might help, but the maddening thing is that many of those books don't have full alphabets.

Why not just scan and digitize this, if this is the only thing you are replicating? You only need these letters, right?

Good eye Mark! There are only 17 different letters (if I counted right) in your movie lettering, so digitizing those wouldn't be too bad, I presume. (Not my area of expertise).

Mike and Mark, Thanks for your input on this � it will probably have to be recreated. I keep thinking Letragraphica, but was ruthless during the last move and must have thrown away my catalogs. What was I thinking?!!!

I just got my copy of the Photo-Lettering "Alphabet Thesaurus - Vol 3" and there is a font called "West Fifth Dimension" that is quite similar in its blockiness and feel, to your sample, but it is (alas) not identical, and of course, probably not a digitized font.
Here is a scan of it:

Thanks Mike, this type just screams "mystic crystal revelation." Whatever happened to that dang age of aquarius anyway?

The Train Robbers question is probably a dead issue � it will have to be recreated � but any other interesting 60s/70s faces you want to share?

BTW, I never properly acknowledged your forensics, Mark. Thank you. I did drop out the poster background color, which, in retrospect, did mess with the edges.

Alyce, there are too many to scan them all. Most of the recognizable ones are fat-bottomed, inflated looking things. A google search for 60's or 70's typefaces might do as well as I could attempt.

I know Leslie Cabarga has done some (see this page for Grassy Knoll and some others that are in the 'genre' of your sample).