Pas du tout, Jean-Francois. Your English is better than that of many native speakers on this site.

Check out this older thread: Videos about typography

“Comic Sans – The Movie” would have been nice and fun, but I guess it’s not gonna happen…

Serious now: the BBC has broadcast a few documentaries and specials (as part of a culture program) about typographers or the graphic arts in general. I recorded a few of those. If you are interested in Stephen Fry’s take on the press used by Gutenberg or a short interview with Matthew Carter, contact me: mail [at] bertvanderveen [dot] nl.

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

Hi!

I had the same question a couple of weeks ago, and after some search I found this page from our typophile colleague Alessandro Segalini. I consider it quit complet and has at the bottom of the page a section on Film and Video.
Hope that this help you...

António

Actually, there kind of is a Comic Sans Documentary…

I don't believe Typeface is available on DVD yet, but you can try and catch a screening.

Hi guys ! Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I'll check them out.

Do not hesitate to add more ! : )

Hi-

I remembered an old Flash-movie: "Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black" by Cheshire Dave.
I did some Googling and found it here:

http://www.veer.com/ideas/btt/

It also has a link to Cheshire Dave's site, where there might be more things like this.

Have fun.

Ah yes, I remember the Cooper Black movie. It's…different…

I saw a DVD about Frutiger, and another one about Eric Gill. but I couldnt get my hands on them, therefore couldnt watch them. but they do exist.

dr

The Man of Black and White - Adrian Frutiger
I watched it long back, and it was truly inspiring.

Thanks so much. More more more ! :)

By the way, check this out : Rives at TED
Most of us are not huge fans of ascii art, but it's still made with typography.

The Gill one I saw was a documentary by a guy who’s parents lived in the same village where Gill had his commune & consisted mostly of interviews with people who had secondhand recollections. Not much about type(design) in it.

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

Bert : I guess it was Looking for Mr. Gill.

Not much about type(design) in it.

Bert, nearly 70 years after his death, Gill is remembered mostly for his type design and his, ahem, unconventional sexual inclinations. In his lifetime he was probably better known as a sculptor, and described himself on his gravestone as a stone-carver.

Yep, Looking for it was. And I know about Gill’s work outside of the realm of glyphs. A lot of that looks quite dated, while his Sans is still very fresh. What does that tell us about history?

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

> I don’t believe Typeface is available on DVD yet, but you can try and catch a screening.

FWIW, the Typeface movie will be screened as this year's Wednesday night public event at TypeCon in Atlanta on 15 July (co-sponsored by AIGA Atlanta). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Jim Moran, David Shields, Nick Sherman, and John Downer.

AIGA Atlanta is selling tickets for general admission. TypeCon attendees are guaranteed a seat (if you check it off on your registration).

Some folks may remember that Justine Nagan gave a preview of some of the footage at last year's TypeCon in Buffalo. We're very excited to welcome her back to TypeCon to debut the finished documentary.

The Art of Eric Gill

Enjoy!

The Art of Hermann Zapf

The documentary to see is Final Marks, from the 1970s –
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,141

There is a short clip on YouTube, here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AasLZ-YFjs

Richard Kegler of P22 is working on a documentary about Jim Rimmer and his amazing life and body of work. A trailer debuted at TypeCon in Buffalo last year. Can't wait for the finished product. Delicious somethings from the Pie Tree Press.

What about the video commissioned by Typophile or Punchcut? I remember Joe Pemberton had it on his blog. I loved that video.

Sharon

This is the one I'm thinking of. http://typophile.com/node/45002

Aha! Found it at last...

Two years old – so not new and not a documentary either, but a typographic fairy tale called "Little Yellow Writing Hood" by Strange Attractors, and commissioned by Fontfont. Like the Cheshire Dave piece, it's different.

There is also a really nice piece of intro animation at Out of Sorts Press and further into their site, a video tutorial about the California job case. Enjoy.

Hey guys, thanks so much for your help !

Great community. Great suggestions.

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