The Swiss company Cinetype was specialized in the subtitling cinematic movie reels. GT Cinetype is based on an engineer’s design for such a machine. A laser set the type directly on the film by erasing the coloured layer of the film.
Our interpretation of that leads to a typeface with mechanic precision, but also a human element, that shows its personality in the details. Used in small sizes GT Cinetype seems like a normal, rounded typeface. The eye will only perceive its straight segments at larger sizes.
Due to the possibility of digital subtitles and movie delivery in general, this process has since become obsolete. The digitalisation of this typeface is our way of capturing the spirit of this area of typesetting. Designed by Mauro Paolozzi and Rafael Koch.
GT Cinetype Light / Italic — Pulp Fiction
BRING OUT
Vincent: Whoa!
Jules: What the fuck's happening, man? Ah, shit man!
Vincent: Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face.
Jules: Why the fuck did you do that!
Vincent: Well, I didn't mean to do it, it was an accident!
Jules: Oh man I've seen some crazy ass shit in my time...
Vincent: Chill out, man. I told you it was an accident. You probably went over a bump or something.
Jules: Hey, the car didn't hit no motherfucking bump!
Vincent: Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a bitch. The gun went off. I don't know why.
THE GIMP
Three tomatoes are walking down the street—a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him… and says, Catch up.
GT Cinetype Regular / Italic — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Right? Wrong!
Consider this a divorce!
Milk is for babies, when you get older you drink beer.
I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I’m going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!
GT Cinetype Bold / Italic — Star Wars / Star Trek
May the force be with you
Space, the final frontier
Fear is the path to the dark side… Fear leads to anger… Anger leads to hate… Hate leads to suffering.
You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him, because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to… the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, and the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know, simply because the word “love” isn’t written into your book.
GT Cinetype Mono — Technical specifications and statistics
CinemaScope
Zeiss ƒ/1:3
1
Avatar
$2,787,965,087
2009
2
Titanic
$2,186,772,302
1997
3
The Avengers
$1,518,594,910
2012
4
Harry Potter
$1,341,511,219
2011
5
Frozen
$1,277,152,791
2013
6
Iron Man 3
$1,215,439,994
2013
7
Transformers
$1,123,794,079
2011
8
Lord of the Rings
$1,119,929,521
2003
9
Skyfall
$1,108,561,013
2012
10
Transformers
$1,087,404,499
2014
Is a motion picture film format that uses exactly the same film stock as standard 35 mm film, but puts a larger image frame on that stock by using the space normally for the optic analog sound track.
(1) 16 frames per foot (0.748 in (19 mm) per frame (long pitch))
(2) 24 frames per second (frame/s); 90 feet (27 m) per minute. 1,000 feet (300 m) -> 11 minutes at 24 frame/s.
(3) 4 Perforations per frame (all projection and most origination excepting 3-perf) 35 mm spherical
(4) aspect ratio: 1.375:1 on camera aperture; 1.85:1 and 1.66:1 are hard or soft matted over this
(5) camera aperture: 0.866 by 0.630 in (22 by 16 mm)
(6) projector aperture (full 1.375:1); 0.82 by 0.60 in (21 by 15 mm)
(7) projector aperture (1.66:1): 0.825 by 0.497 in (21 by 13 mm)
(8) projector aperture (1.85:1): 0.825 by 0.446 in (21 by 11 mm)
TV station aperture: 0.816 by 0.612 in (21 by 16 mm)
