Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – ) is a Canadian filmmaker and co-inventor of IMAX. Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page IMAX (short for Image MAXimum is a Film format created by Canada 's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and

He was born Yorkton,Saskatchewan, and later studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Manitoba and then worked for the National Film Board of Canada, first as a production assistant and then as an editor. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 The University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, is the largest university located in the province of Manitoba. The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is Canada's public film producer and distributor ^[1] He directed his first film, Rescue Party in 1949.

Between 1958 and 1961 Kroitor co-produced, with Wolf Koenig, the Candid Eye direct cinema documentary series for the National Film Board. Direct Cinema is a documentary genre that originated between 1958 and 1962 in North America chiefly in Canada ( Quebec) and in the United States One of those films became the highly influential Cinéma vérité-style documentary about singer Paul Anka: Lonely Boy. Cinéma Vérité is the first Album by an Alternative rock group Dramarama, released in November 1985 Paul Mustapha Abdi Anka, ( Arabic: بول مصطفى عبدي أنكا OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Lonely Boy is a 1962 Cinema verite documentary about former teen sensation Paul Anka. This film's use of portable film and sound gear, with lack of a narration voice-over, would influence later documentaries like D.A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan 1967 feature Dont Look Back. Donn Alan "D A" Pennebaker (born July 15, 1925) is an American Documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Dont Look Back is a 1967 Documentary film by DA Pennebaker that principally covers Bob Dylan 's 1965 concert tour of the Lonely Boy was one of the earliest examples of a rockumentary and was parodied in the comedy This is Spinal Tap. The term rockumentary is a Neologism denoting a program on Television or movie documentary about Rock music or its This Is Spın̈al Tap (officially spelled with a non-functional umlaut over the letter 'n' and dotless 'i' is a 1984 mock Rockumentary

He exhibited a large-scale multi-screen work, Labyrinth, at Expo 67 in Montreal. In the Labyrinth was a groundbreaking multi-screen presentation at Expo 67. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada from April 27 to October Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec In the same year he co-founded the Multiscreen Corporation, which later became the IMAX Corporation. IMAX Corporation () is the company that designs and manufactures IMAX cameras and projectors as well as handling film production and distribution to the various IMAX The Multivision process was developed for the Osaka Expo '70 and involved 70mm film projected horizontally rather than vertically. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Expo '70 was a World's Fair held in Suita Osaka, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970. Each frame was as large as a postcard, with 15 sprocket-holes. ^[2] He produced the first IMAX film, Tiger Child in 1970 (dir. Tiger Child was the first IMAX movie ever made It was directed by Canadian filmmaker Donald Brittain and had its premiere at Expo '70 in Osaka Japan Donald Brittain). Donald Brittain, OC (born Ottawa, June 10, 1928 &ndash died Montreal, July 21, 1989) was an acclaimed filmmaker

In 1990 he co-directed the first IMAX feature film, Rolling Stones: At the Max.

Roman Kroitor has been credited by George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars films, as being the origin of the concept of The Force, an important thematic element tying together all the Star Wars films. Star Wars is an epic Space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded The Force is one of the main concepts in the fictional Star Wars universe, created by George Lucas. "One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 [a film that had a great influence on Lucas] was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. Arthur Lipsett ( 13 May 1936 &ndash May 1 1986) was a Canadian Avant-garde director of short Experimental 21-87 is a notable Canadian Abstract film created in 1963 by Arthur Lipsett that lasts nine minutes and 45 seconds McCulloch and Roman Kroitor , a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: 'Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God. '"

"When asked if this was the source of 'the Force,' Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was 'an echo of that phrase in 21-87. '" ^[3]

Contents 1 Awards 2 Filmography 3 Footnotes 4 References 5 External links

Awards

• BAFTA: Universe (Best Animated Film, 1961). The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 by the National Film Board of Canada.
• Canadian Film Awards: Universe (Film of the Year and Special Mention, 1961); Lonely Boy (Film of the Year and Best General Information Film, 1962); Above the Horizon (Best Children’s Film, 1964); Stravinsky (Best TV Information film, 1965). The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1979. Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 by the National Film Board of Canada.

Filmography

• Age of the Beaver, 1952 (editor)
• Rescue Party, 1952 (director)
• Paul Tomkowinkz: Street-railway Switchman, Faces of Canada/Snowscapes series, 1952 (director; co-writer with Stanley Jackson; co-editor and co-producer with Tom Daly)
• Farm Calendar, 1955 (director; writer)
• To Serve the Mind, Documentary Showcase/Mental Health series, 1955 (co-writer with Stanley Jackson)
• Introducing Canada, 1956 (co-editor with Tom Daly)
• L’Année B la ferme, 1957 (director; writer)
• City of Gold , Documentary Showcase series, 1957 (co-writer with Pierre Berton, Robert Choquette)
• The Great Plains, Canadian Geography series, 1956 (director; editor)
• It's a Crime, Documentary Showcase/Snowscapes series, 1957 (writer)
• Blood and Fire, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Country Threshing, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• The Days Before Christmas, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-editor with René Laporte, Wolf Koenig; co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• A Foreign Language, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Memory of Summer, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Pilgrimage, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Police, Candid Eye series, 1958 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• The Back-breaking Leaf, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1959 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• La Battaison, 1959 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• The Canadians, 1959 (executive producer)
• Emergency Ward, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1959 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• End of the Line, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1959 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Glenn Gould – Off the Record, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1959 (co-director and co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Glenn Gould – On the Record, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1959 (co-director and co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• The Cars in Your Life, Candid Eye/Documentary 60 series, 1960 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig) a. City of Gold is a 1957 Canadian documentary by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig, chronicling Dawson City during k. a. a Down and 24 Months to Pay
• I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling, Documentary 60 series, 1960 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Universe, 1960 (co-director with Colin Low; writer)
• The Days of Whiskey Gap, 1961 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Festival in Puerto Rico, Candid Eye series, 1961 (co-director and co-editor with Wolf Koenig; producer)
• Lonely Boy, 1961 (co-director with Wolf Koenig; producer)
• University, Explorations series, 1961 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• The Living Machine, Explorations series, 1961 (director; co-producer with Tom Daly)
• Above the Horizon, 1964 (co-director with Hugh O’Connor; co-producer with Hugh O’Connor, Tom Daly)
• Canadian Businessmen, 1964 (co-director with Wolf Koenig)
• The Hutterites, 1964 (co-producer with Tom Daly)
• Legault’s Place, 1964 (co-producer with Tom Daly)
• Nobody Waved Goodbye, 1964 (co-producer with Donald Owen)
• Toronto Jazz, 1964 (producer)
• The Baymen, NFB Presents series, 1965 (co-producer with Peter Jones)
• Stravinsky, 1965 (co-director with Wolf Koenig; producer)
• Two Men of Montreal, 1965 (co-producer with Donald Brittain, John Kemeny, Tom Daly)
• Little White Crimes, NFB Presents series, 1966 (co-producer with John Kemeny)
• In the Labyrinth, 1967 (co-director with Colin Low, Hugh O’Connor; co-producer with Tom Daly)
• IBM Close-up, 1968 (co-director with Graeme Ferguson; producer)
• Tiger Child, 1970 (co-producer with Iichi Ichikawa; writer; IMAX)
• Code Name Running Jump, 1972 (director; producer)
• Exercise Running Jump II, 1972 (director; writer; producer)
• Circus World, 1974 (director; co-editor with Jackie Newell; producer)
• Man Belongs to the Earth, 1974 (co-producer with Graeme Ferguson)
• Man the Hunter [Caribou], Man the Hunter series, 1974 (executive producer)
• Propaganda Message, 1974 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Man the Hunter [Fishing], Man the Hunter series, 1975 (executive producer)
• Man the Hunter [Seal Hunting], Man the Hunter series, 1975 (executive producer)
• Bargain Basement, 1976 (producer)
• For Gentlemen Only, 1976 (executive producer)
• Listen Listen Listen, 1976 (executive producer)
• Schefferville 4th Arctic Winter Games, 1976 (co-producer with Dennis Sawyer)
• Striker, 1976 (executive producer)
• The World is Round, 1976 (executive producer)
• L’Âge de la machine, 1977 (co-producer with Jacques Bobet)
• Back Alley Blue, 1977 (executive producer)
• Bekevar Jubilee, 1977 (executive producer)
• Breakdown, 1977 (executive producer)
• Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention, People and Power series, 1977 (co-executive producer with Arthur Hammond)
• Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher, 1977 (executive producer)
• Henry Ford’s America, 1977 (co- producer with Donald Brittain and Paul Wright)
• Hold the Ketchup, 1977 (executive producer)
• I Wasn’t Scared, 1977 (co-producer with Vladimir Valenta)
• Nature’s Food Chain, 1977 (executive producer)
• One Man, 1977 (co- producer with Michael Scott, James de B. Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 by the National Film Board of Canada. Colin Archibald Low, CM, RCA, (born July 12 1926) is a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker Lonely Boy is a 1962 Cinema verite documentary about former teen sensation Paul Anka. Nobody Waved Goodbye is a 1964 black-and-white National Film Board of Canada production directed by Don Owen, starring Peter Kastner In the Labyrinth was a groundbreaking multi-screen presentation at Expo 67. Tiger Child was the first IMAX movie ever made It was directed by Canadian filmmaker Donald Brittain and had its premiere at Expo '70 in Osaka Japan Domville, Tom Daly, Vladimir Valenta)
• Sail Away, 1977 (executive producer)
• Strangers at the Door, Adventures in History series, 1977 (co-producer with John Howe, Maxine Samuels)
• Oh Canada, 1978 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig, Robert Verrall, Dorothy Courtois)
• Easter Eggs, Canada Vignettes series, 1978 (executive producer)
• Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka, 1978 (executive producer)
• The Point, 1978 (executive producer)
• The Red Dress, Adventures in History series, 1978 (co-executive producer with Dieter Nachtigall)
• The Russels, 1978 (executive producer)
• So Long to Run, 1978 (executive producer)
• Teach Me to Dance, Adventures in History series, 1978 (co-producer with Vladimir Valenta, John Howe)
• Voice of the Fugitive, Adventures in History series, 1978 (executive producer)
• The War is Over, Adventures in History series, 1978 (executive producer)
• Bravery in the Field, Adventures in History series, 1979 (co-producer with Stefan Wodoslawsky; executive producer)
• Gopher Broke, Adventures in History series, 1979 (co-producer with Stefan Wodoslawsky; executive producer)
• Love on Wheels, Canada Vignettes series, 1979 (executive producer)
• Northern Composition, 1979 (executive producer)
• Revolution's Orphans, Adventures in History series, 1979 (co-producer with Rob Iveson)
• Twice Upon a Time, 1979 (co-producer with Stefan Wodoslawsky)
• Why Men Rape, 1979 (executive producer)
• Acting Class, 1980 (executive producer)
• Challenger: An Industrial Romance, 1980 (executive producer)
• Challenger: An Industrial Romance [short version], 1980 (executive producer)
• Coming Back Alive, 1980 (co-producer with Wolf Koenig)
• Maritimes Dig, Canada Vignettes series, 1980 (executive producer)
• Nose and Tina, 1980 (executive producer)
• Prehistoric Artifacts, New Brunswick, Canada Vignettes series, 1980 (executive producer)
• This was the Beginning, Part 1: The Invertebrates, 1980 (executive producer)
• This was the Beginning, Part 2: The Vertebrates, 1980 (executive producer)
• Arthritis: A Dialogue with Pain, 1981 (co-executive producer with Robert Verrall)
• Baxter Earns His Wings, 1981 (executive producer)
• First Winter, Adventures in History series, 1981 (executive producer)
• Hail Columbia!, 1981 (co-producer with Graeme Ferguson; IMAX)
• Where the Buoys Are, 1981 (executive producer)
• Laughter in My Soul, 1983 (co-executive producer with Robert Verrall)
• Skyward, 1985 (co-producer with Susumu Sakane; IMAX)
• Starbreaker, 1984 (co-editor with Bruce Mackay; producer; co-executive producer with Robert Verrall)
• A Freedom to Move, 1985 (executive producer; IMAX)
• We Are Born of Stars, 1985 (producer; writer; OMNIMAX3D)
• Heart Land, 1987 (co-producer with Sally Dundas; IMAX)
• Echoes of the Sun, 1990 (co-producer with Fumio Sumi, Sally Dundas; co-writer with Nelson Max, Colin Low; IMAX)
• Flowers in the Sky, 1990 (co-producer with Charles Konowal; IMAX)
• The Last Buffalo, 1990 (co-producer with Sally Dundas; IMAX3D)
• Rolling Stones: "At the Max", 1991 (co-director with Julien Temple, David Douglas, Noel Archambault; IMAX)
• Imagine, 1993 (co-producer with Hyok-Kyu Kwon; IMAX3D)
• Paint Misbehavin’, 1996 (director; co-producer with Steve Hoban; IMAX3D)
• The Reality Trip, 1997 (appears as himself; TV)
• Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment, 1999 (appears as himself)
• Cyberworld, 2000 (co-producer with Sally Dundas, Steven Hoban, Hugh Murray; IMAX)

Footnotes

References

External links

• Roman Kroitor at the Internet Movie Database

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