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Typeface.

Endearing & moving film about a declined industrial town and Hamilton Wood Type Museum

A wonderful movie (about the value of craft, patience, knowledge and physicality) with a lack of equivalent values for lighting, editing, production or sound - but hey - that's a digital craft. If you can get past that issue then this is a moving documentary about a declining Wisconsin town, some great characters, the importance of hand-crafts, and the astonishing Hamilton Wood Type Museum - with over 1.5m wood blocks still accessible to use today.
Helvetica meets Christopher Guest meets Louis Theroux with some 12th grade film studies kids.
(Features an all-time great cameo by an Ogilvy CD playing to type as the most unbelievable cock.)

Hamilton - http://www.woodtype.org/

Typeface - http://typeface.kartemquin.com/hamilton