The movie title still collection: titoli di testa, tipografia, lettering e affini

Grazie a masayume (che tra l'altro posta sempre delle vere chicche) ho potuto apprezzare l'interessante lavoro: The movie title still collection del web & graphic designer Christian Annyas.
Una collezione dei titoli dei film suddivisi in titoli di testa, titoli di coda e titoli dei trailer che vanno dagli inizi del '900 ad oggi. Una vera meraviglia per varie categorie di appassionati: dai cinefili ai tipografi, dai letteristi a chiunque!
Lo stesso sito, online dal 2009, è realizzato in modo ottimale, un elogio al passato, al vecchio stile del cinema senza esagerare, e allo stesso tempo in stile attuale, con un look essenziale e ben studiato, dove ovviamente le stesse scritte dei contenuti del sito non possono che basarsi proprio sui titoli dei vari film studiati e raccolti: "the site itself is really nicely designed, too, with a terrific movie-promotion feel to it" (Ned Batchelder)

ABOUT THIS PROJECT
I've seen a lot of movies over the years. To prove I've sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making screenshots of the titles. Then my computer crashed and I almost lost them all. To save them for future generations I created this little website.

Quindi non solo la grafica e la struttura del sito è rilevante, ma anche il materiale al suo interno, post per post permette di spulciare e godere di questa collezione di titoli, tipografica, letterale, cinematografica, ecc..
Ne ho trovato all'interno uno piuttosto noto: The typography of Jean-Luc Godard

To me watching the films of Jean-Luc Godard is like watching a white Rauschenberg painting or listing to John Cage’s “4:33″: it isn’t something I do for entertainment. They’re historically significant because he broke all the rules in the book, but I just don’t enjoy watching them. Since I only add titles from films I’ve seen myself there weren’t many Godard films present in the Movie title stills collection.

On december 3rd, Atelier Carvalho Bernau released a free typeface to celebrate Godard’s 80th birthday. The typeface was inspired by the title sequences of Godard’s ‘Made in U.S.A’ (1966) and ’2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle’ (1967). When I started googling I found surprisingly few stills or videos from Godard’s films, that’s why I decided to add the most interesting ones to the Movie title stills collection.

I’ve located almost all films from the earlier part of Godard’s career and took all stills containing typography: titles from the opening title sequences, intertitles and end (“Fin”) titles. Like silent films Godard used lots of intertitles, which make his films much more typographic than other films from the ’60s and 70′s.

It’s quite interesting to see the designs evolve. In this digital age it’s refreshing to see type that isn’t made on a computer: the imperfect and handmade look of the letterforms, the bad kerning, the large gaps between letters and words, the justified blocks of text, the awkwardly dotted capital I’s. Even when he used an existing typeface – like Antique Olive in ‘Week end’ (1967) – the letterforms look as if they were cut out with an Exacto knife.

Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) is the last film featuring custom typefaces. In his later films Godard used existing typefaces like Futura, Univers, Helvetica and Garamond.

Nel post originale ci sta ogni riferimento, con screnshott e relativi dati, qua posto una summa:

Interessante da studiare :)