Filmotype Hunter in use

Nestor Amaral and His Continentals – Holiday in … album series

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:06:00 +0000

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Holiday in Italy features a photo of the Forum Romanum and an all-caps setting of Filmotype Zion. From the back cover:

Nestor was born and raised in the industrial city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is heavily populated by the Italian people. It was quite natural that he should grow to love the music of Italy. In this album he is working with a small combination featuring himself on the violin, guitar, and that most typical of Italian instruments, the mandolin.

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Nestor Amaral (1913–1962) was a Brazilian musician, composer and singer who also appeared in several films. In 1957, Hollywood-based budget label Tops Records released a series of holiday-themed albums. Each volume is dedicated to a different country. The cover photographs of two of them are courtesy of Trans World Airlines (TWA). The airline is also mentioned on the back cover and might have been a sponsor of the series.

About the artist (from Holiday in France):

Nestor Amaral needs little introduction to the American public. A versatile and talented artist Mr. Amaral has delighted the ear of American audiences since 1940 when he came to this country from his native Brazil in association with the late Carmen Miranda. After working on Broadway and Hollywood with Miss Miranda he formed his own orchestra to work in such well known places as the Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and the Ambassador Hotel. Continuing his work in motion pictures he has worked as a singer, musician and composer. A member of A.S.C.A.P. he has had many of his own compositions used in pictures. As a singer he introduced such popular songs as “It’s Magic” with Doris Day in Romance on the High Seas, “Baia” in the Walt Disney production of the Three Cabelleros and “Brazil” in the 20th Century Fox picture The Gangs All Here. As a musician his guitar has been heard in the musical score of Blood and Sand, Duel in the Sun, For Whom The Bells Toll, and many others.

Holiday in France depicts a ceremonial act at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The title is set in Filmotype Hunter. “Nestor Amaral and His Continentals” is again added in Venus Extended Light.

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Holiday in Brazil has a long-exposure photo showing the traffic at Rio’s Copacabana, with a line drawing of two maracas on top. The letterforms of Latin Wide were arranged on a bouncing baseline and embellished with a thin hand-drawn inline. The credit line uses bold Bodoni caps. From the back cover:

For Brazil’s 400 anniversary in 1954, Nestor and Mrs. Amaral visited his homeland. He was accorded a national hero's welcome, with front page stories in the Rio newspapers. The Amarals remained eight months in Brazil where Nestor played many engagements on radio and television. “As far as vacationing is concerned,” says Amaral, “I don’t think it’s mere sentiment to inform newcomers that if they spend holiday in Brazil, they just MIGHT stay for good.”

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Jonnie Aluani and his Orchestra – Hawaiian Interlude album art

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 10:56:01 +0000

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Spin-O-Rama pressing ft. Filmotype Hunter.

Filmotype Adam (Sample unavailable)

Filmotype Hunter for the title of Hawaiian Interlude, a record of Pacific music recorded by Jonnie Aluani and his Orchestra, as released around 1957 by Spin-O-Rama Records (shown above).

This “musical travelog in Tru-Sound” was “issued on at least 10 labels, and credited to artists Terry McKee and His Band, Willie Alunuai And His Band, Harry Kaapuni And His Royal Polynesians, Jonnie Aluani And His Orchestra, Luke Leilani & His Hawaiian Rhythm, or Alan Makara And Orchestra (and possibly others).”

The images below show two other pressings featuring the same photograph and other Filmotype faces. The one by Pirouette Records has Quota, a variant of their extrabold geometric sans serif Free, with rough contours. The track names are set in bold caps from Vogue.

The version by Parade Records (1957) shows red caps from Adam, one of the many casual brush alphabets in the Filmotype library. The record here is credited to Willie Alunuai and his Band, and instead of “Tru-Sound”, it’s “High Fidelity”.

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Pirouette pressing ft. Filmotype Quota.

Parade pressing ft. Filmotype Adam.

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Valdez Is Coming (1971) opening titles

Florian Hardwig — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:42:05 +0000

The opening titles of Valdez Is Coming don’t pick up the typographic choices introduced in the movie posters and the trailer, nor do they reference the book cover of the original novel.

The titles are set in Hunter, an upright, largely connected script made by Filmotype in the early 1950s. VGC later offered it as A-38. Filmotype Hunter apparently came with a number of alternate glyphs, most notably the s (compare “Lancaster” and “Susan”).

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Queen Of The Gypsies

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:37:14 +0000

Queen Of The Gypsies (The Rhythms Of Carmen Amaya) — Carmen Amaya And Company, Sabicas. Decca Records/USA (1955). Cover design by Joe Weitz.

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