What is the font on the back of movie boxes?

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Y'know, the one for the cast and crew at the bottom- that's really tall. If I stretch text in Photoshop, it look stretched, rather than "tall."
Does anyone know what font this is and where to find it? Or a technique in Pshop to simulate this effect?
Thanks in advance!
 
I found a font called "sf movie poster" that does the trick. Just google search it and you'll find a BUNCH of links for it
 
YEA. Thank god- I've been looking for a long time, and was too afraid to post a thread.

The forum mods would yell at me for not using search.
 
I was interested in this question and found a thread where a guy really seriously went to the trouble to find the "real" font used. While SF Movie Poster is close and probably good enough for most uses, the "real" font is Univers 39 Thin Ultra Condensed. The thread also provided this very useful info:

I recently found myself engaged in another font search that irritatingly stretched from 15 a minute project to a week's worth of scouring the internet. In the end, useful human assistance proved nonexistent but the following sites answered my prayers. Forsooth, they put an end to any "what's this font?" questions that might be asked here.

The first compares a sample image of text against a database of fonts from many different libraries (after performing a user-corrected OCR of the sample image).

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

This latter site asks questions about your sample image to whittle down the possible lists of fonts to choose from.

http://www.identifont.com/index.html

If either of these databases had been available when I was looking for the movie poster credits font last year, I probably would have found it with ease.
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I recently found myself engaged in another font search that irritatingly stretched from 15 a minute project to a week's worth of scouring the internet. In the end, useful human assistance proved nonexistent but the following sites answered my prayers. Forsooth, they put an end to any "what's this font?" questions that might be asked here.

The first compares a sample image of text against a database of fonts from many different libraries (after performing a user-corrected online OCR of the sample image).

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

This latter site asks questions about your sample image to whittle down the possible lists of fonts to choose from.

http://www.identifont.com/index.html

If either of these databases had been available when I was looking for the movie poster credits font last year, I probably would have found it with ease.
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thanks Mark, useful information.
 
There's a few out there if you look. The good ones will give you all the job titles when you press "SHIFT" and a letter so you're not having to scale it all yourself.
 
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