Video Review: TDC library gets Frederic W. Goudy home movies
TDC library gets Frederic W. Goudy home movies
November 06 2002
A videotape appeared in the TDC mail recently from Elizabeth S. Manion, the director of the Marlboro Free Library in Marlboro, New York. Ms Manion writes, “We were given several old movie reels of Goudy’s home and members of his family… I finally had the footage transferred to videotape and thought you might like a copy. You will see Goudy’s home “Deepdene” in Marlboro; Goudy’s wife, Bertha, and his son; a graduation where Goudy apparently spoke and received an honorary degree; and the waterfall which is part of the creek that ran through his property.”
Goudy lived at Deepdene – named for the street he previously lived on in Forest Hills, Queens – in Marlboro-on-Hudson, from 1924 until his death in 1944. He designed 124 typefaces. His first original face was completed when he was 30, but Goudy didn’t consider himself a professional type designer until he was 46. This 15-minute video shows one of America’s great type designers with his family at the home he loved. The video may be viewed at the TDC Library.
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