![]() ![]() They used the most recent 2007 restoration of the film, completed by film historian Robert Harris as a blueprint and went to work for thousands of hours, applying color correction, sound restoration, repairing tears in the negatives, and so much more. The result is a version of The Godfather that looks better than ever, restored personally by the original director and his team. If that’s not a dream come true for longtime Godfather fans, I don’t know what would be. #NAME THE GODFATHER FONT FULL#LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION SET ALSO AVAILABLEĪdditional bonus content featured in the set includes documentaries such as Full Circle: Preserving The Godfather (Paramount Pictures archivists detailing the extensive restoration process, as well as archival footage chronicling the advancement of home media entertainment), Capturing The Corleones: Through The Lens Of Photographer Steve Schapiro (special photographer Steve Schapiro’s personal account and unique experience with The Godfather), The Godfather: Home Movies (a collection of 8mm footage shot during the original 1971 production, this is the first time it’s been made available to the public) and Restoration Comparisons (good luck figuring that one out). There is also a 4K UHD Limited Collector’s Edition available, complete with deluxe packaging, a hardcover coffee table book, portrait prints on archival paper.and a number of additional bonus features. RELATED: MOON KNIGHT DIRECTOR REVEALS WHAT ATTRACTED HIM TO THIS “INTIMATE” MARVEL PROJECT WITH “BIG STUFF HAPPENING” Some of the extra content found on this Limited Collector’s Edition includes four short films based on The Godfather, Connie & Carlo’s Wedding Album, and a Crime Organization Chart, just to name a few. ![]() ![]() In the fifty years since The Godfather first came out, the franchise has changed cinema, changed viewers, and changed American storytelling as we know it. As someone who was lucky enough to take my first steps into Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s hallmark franchise through this amazing new 4K restoration set, I highly recommend you do the same. "It's… oh, it's brilliant when it's done well.Whether you’re someone interested in a first watchthrough, a longtime fan, or have a loved one who loves The Godfather, this set is the perfect purchase. "It's not a letter that bent to shape it's a letter that lives in a powerful matrix of surround space," he raved in the 2007 documentary the bore the name of his chief accomplishment. But, as Fast Company notes, his passion for Helvetica endured throughout his life. He went on to design more than a thousand fonts and cofounded the first entirely digital type company, Bitstream. Parker, to his credit, hardly seemed to dwell. But its corporate use hardly matched its favor among design geeks and typesetters. The font would become a staple of government documents, company logos, and iPod screens. From there, it blossomed into a handful of varieties - Helvetica Textbook, Helvetica Narrow, and Helvetica Rounded, to name several. The result was Helvetica, as it was named in 1960. With his team, Parker reworked it for Linotype's then-standard typesetting machines. The British-born Parker, as his son Harry Parker told CNN, "didn't draw Helvetica, but he was very instrumental in it." That history dates back to the late 1950s, when Parker joined the Mergenthaler Linotype Company as design director and happened upon a Swiss typeface then known as Neue Haas Grotesk, the work of Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman. Artsier than Times New Roman and hipper than Arial, Helvetica, with its rounded C's and narrow little T's, graces everything from New York City subway signage to federal income tax forms.Īt one point, it even served to, err, "refine" popular Internet memes.īut for those who haven't viewed Helvetica, the 2007 documentary on the subject, the news poses several questions: how does one become the "godfather" of a font - and what makes a font so beloved as to inspire April Fools' pranks and Museum of Modern Art exhibits? His name is obscure, but his handiwork is near ubiquitous. Mike Parker, the type designer widely hailed as the "Godfather" of Helvetica, died earlier this week at the age of 84. ![]()
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