Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a
Canadian
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filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of ''
Cinéma vérité
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'', as the co-founder of
IMAX
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, and as the creator of the
Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for
The Force
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. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two
BAFTA
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Awards, three
Cannes Film Festival
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awards, and two
Oscar
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nominations.
Early life
Roman Boghdan Kroitor was born in
Yorkton
Yorkton is a city located in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north-west of Winnipeg and south-east of Saskatoon and is the sixth largest city in the province.
Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928. ...
,
Saskatchewan
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, to Ukrainian immigrants Peter and Tatiana (Shewchuk), both of whom were teachers. Peter died when Roman was four; Tatiana moved the family to
Winnipeg
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and continued teaching. Roman attended the
University of Manitoba
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, graduating in 1951 with a Master of Arts in Philosophy.
National Film Board of Canada
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In 1949 and 1950, Kroitor attended the Summer Intern program at the
National Film Board of Canada
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(NFB) in Ottawa. Upon graduation from university, he was hired full-time, working as a production assistant and later as a film editor. His first film, 1953's ''Rescue Party''
laid the foundation for his pioneering
Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (, , ) is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about '' Kino-Pravda''. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subje ...
style, and he went on to produce influential films such as ''
Lonely Boy'', ''Glenn Gould: On the Record'', ''Glenn Gould: Off the Record'', and the concert film ''
Stravinsky''. By 1958, Kroiter was producing documentaries; by 1964, he was one of the producers leading the NFB into the production of fiction films.
IMAX
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After seeing the ground-breaking NFB documentary ''Universe'' (1960),
Stanley Kubrick
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tried to recruit Kroiter and
Colin Low to work on ''
2001: A Space Odyssey''. They declined because, with
Hugh O'Connor and
Tom Daily, they were working on a large-scale multi-screen film. This was ''
In the Labyrinth'', which the NFB exhibited at
Expo 67
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in
Montreal
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. The film caused a sensation and, in the same year Kroitor and his friend and colleague, the director
Graeme Ferguson, left the NFB as employees, but physically stayed, founding Multi-Screen Corporation (later IMAX Corp.) in the NFB's Montreal studios (with two other friends,
Robert Kerr and engineer Bill Shaw). The Multi-Screen process involved a purpose-built camera, and 70mm film projected horizontally rather than vertically, with each frame the size of a postcard.
In 1970, for
Expo 70 in
Osaka
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, Kroitor produced the first
IMAX
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film, the 17-minute ''
Tiger Child'', directed by
Donald Brittain. In 1973, he returned to the NFB as a producer in charge of the Drama department, but continued to make IMAX films until his retirement. In 1990, he co-directed the first IMAX feature film, ''
Stones at the Max''. He also produced the first IMAX stereoscopic (S3D) film, ''We Are Born of Stars'' (anaglyph, 1985), and co-produced the first full-color
OMNIMAX (IMAX Dome) S3D film, ''Echoes of the Sun'' (alternate-eye, 1990).
SANDDE
While working to create traditional (actuality) and early CG films in a stereoscopic format, Kroitor became frustrated with the lack of direct interaction between the desires of (right-brained) artists and the results on film, because everything had to pass through the (left-brained) mathematicians and programmers. He conceived of the
SANDDE hardware and software system as a way to allow artists to directly draw, in full stereoscopic 3D, what they want the audience to see.
George Lucas
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and
The Force
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Kroitor was credited by ''
Star Wars
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'' creator
George Lucas
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as being the origin of the concept of
The Force
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, an important thematic element in the ''Star Wars'' films. As reported by ''
The Globe and Mail
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'', Lucas first heard about "the force" in a conversation between Kroitor and
Warren Sturgis McCulloch
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, an artificial intelligence guru, in ''
21-87'', a 1963 collage film made by the NFB's
Arthur Lipsett. Disagreeing with McCulloch's assertion that humans are nothing more than highly complex machines, Kroitor argued: "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."
Personal life and death
In 1955, Kroitor married (Graeme Ferguson's sister) Janet Ferguson; they had five children and lived in Montreal. On September 17, 2012, he died of a
heart attack
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in his sleep at the age of 85.
Filmography
National Film Board of Canada
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* ''Age of the Beaver'' - documentary short,
Colin Low 1952 - editor
* ''Rescue Party'' - documentary short 1953 - director
* ''Paul Tomkowinkz: Street-Railway Switchman'' - documentary short 1953 - co-writer with
Stanley Jackson, co-editor and co-producer with
Tom Daly, director
* ''Farm Calendar'' - documentary 1955 - writer, director
* ''To Serve the Mind'' - documentary short,
Stanley Jackson 1955 - co-writer with
Stanley Jackson
* ''Introducing Canada'' - documentary short,
Tom Daly 1956 - co-editor with
Tom Daly
* ''
City of Gold'' - documentary short,
Colin Low &
Wolf Koenig 1957 - writer
* ''The Great Plains'' - documentary short 1957 - editor, director
* ''It's a Crime'' - animated film,
Wolf Koenig 1957 - writer
* ''L'année à la ferme'' – documentary short 1957 – writer, director
* ''Blood and Fire'' - documentary,
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Country Threshing'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''The Days Before Christmas'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig,
Stanley Jackson &
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1958 - co-editor with René Laporte &
Wolf Koenig, co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''A Foreign Language'' - documentary short,
Stanley Jackson 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Memory of Summer'' - documentary short,
Stanley Jackson 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Pilgrimage'' - documentary short,
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Police'' - documentary short,
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1958 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''The Back-Breaking Leaf'' - documentary short,
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1959 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''La Battaison'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig 1959 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''The Canadians'' - documentary short,
Tom Daly 1959 - executive producer
* ''Emergency Ward'' - documentary short,
William Greaves
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1959 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''End of the Line'' - documentary short,
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1959 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Glenn Gould - Off the Record'' - documentary short 1959 - co-director and co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Glenn Gould - On the Record'' - documentary short 1959 - co-director and co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''The Cars in Your Life'' - documentary short
Terence Macartney-Filgate 1960 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig & Georges Dufaux 1960 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''
Universe
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'' - documentary short 1960 - writer, co-director with
Colin Low
* ''The Days of Whiskey Gap'' - documentary short,
Colin Low 1961 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Festival in Puerto Rico'' - documentary short 1961 - co-director and co-editor with
Wolf Koenig, producer
* ''University'' - documentary,
Stanley Jackson 1961 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''
Lonely Boy'' - documentary short 1962 - producer, co-director with
Wolf Koenig
* ''The Living Machine'' - documentary 1962 - co-producer with
Tom Daly, director
* ''Toronto Jazz'' - documentary short,
Don Owen 1963 - producer
* ''Above the Horizon'' - documentary short 1964 - co-director with
Hugh O'Connor, co-producer with
Hugh O'Connor &
Tom Daly
* ''
The Hutterites'' - documentary short,
Colin Low 1964 - co-producer with
Tom Daly
* ''Legault’s Place'' - documentary short, Suzanne Angel 1964 - co-producer with
Tom Daly
* ''
Nobody Waved Goodbye'' - feature,
Don Owen 1964 - co-producer with
Don Owen
* ''The Baymen'', documentary short, Rex Tasker 1965 - co-producer with Peter Jones
* ''Two Men of Montreal'' - documentary, Suzanne Angel,
Donald Brittain &
Don Owen 1965 - co-producer with
Donald Brittain,
John Kemeny &
Tom Daly
* ''Little White Crimes'' - short film,
George Kaczender 1966 - co-producer with
John Kemeny
* ''Stravinsky'' - documentary 1966 - producer, co-director with
Wolf Koenig
* ''
In the Labyrinth'' - short film 1967 - co-director with
Colin Low,
Hugh O'Connor, co-producer with
Tom Daly
* ''
Tiger Child'' - short film, IMAX,
Donald Brittain 1970 – writer, co-producer with Ichi Ichikawa
* ''Circus World'', 1974 – director, producer, co-editor with Jackie Newell
* ''
Propaganda Message'' - animated short,
Barrie Nelson 1971 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Man the Hunter: Caribou'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1974 - executive producer
* ''Man the Hunter: Fishing'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1975 - executive producer
* ''Man the Hunter: Seal Hunting'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1975 - executive producer
* ''Bargain Basement'' - short film,
John N. Smith 1976 - producer
* ''For Gentlemen Only'' - documentary short,
Michael J.F. Scott 1976 - executive producer
* ''Listen Listen Listen'' - documentary, Barbara Greene 1976 - executive producer
* ''Schefferville 4th Arctic Winter Games'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1976 - co-producer with Dennis Sawyer
* ''Striker'' - short film, Robert Nichol 1976 - executive producer
* ''The World is Round'' - documentary, Ian McLaren 1976 - executive producer
* ''
The Machine Age'' - short film, Gilles Carle 1977 - co-producer with
Jacques Bobet
* ''Back Alley Blue'' - documentary short, Bill Reid 1977 - executive producer
* ''Bekevar Jubilee'' - documentary short,
Albert Kish 1977 - executive producer
* ''Breakdown'' - short film, Peter Thurling 1977 - executive producer
* ''Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention'' - documentary,
Peter Raymont 1977 - co-executive producer with
Arthur Hammond
* ''
Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher'' - short film,
John N. Smith 1977 - executive producer
* ''
Henry Ford's America'' - documentary,
Donald Brittain 1977 - co- producer with
Donald Brittain & Paul Wright
* ''Hold the Ketchup'' - documentary short,
Albert Kish 1977 - executive producer
* ''I Wasn’t Scared'' - short film,
Giles Walker 1977 - co-producer with Vladimir Valenta
* ''Nature’s Food Chain'' - documentary short,
Bernard Devlin 1977 - executive producer
* ''
One Man'' - feature,
Robin Spry 1977 - co-producer with
Michael J.F. Scott,
James de B. Domville,
Tom Daly & Vladimir Valenta
* ''Sail Away'' - documentary short, Bruce Mackay 1977 - executive producer
* ''Strangers at the Door'' - short film,
John Howe 1977 - co-producer with
John Howe & Maxine Samuels
* ''Oh Canada'' - animated short, Barrie Nelson 1978 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig,
Robert Verrall & Dorothy Courtois
* ''Easter Eggs'' - documentary short, Yurij Luhovy 1978 - executive producer
* ''Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka'' - documentary, Robert Duncan 1978 - executive producer
* ''The Point'' - documentary, Robert Duncan 1978 - executive producer
* ''The Red Dress'' - documentary short,
Michael J.F. Scott 1978 - co-executive producer with Dieter Nachtigall
* ''The Russels'' - short film, Susan Huycke, Kenneth McCready,
Mort Ransen
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Early life
Ransen was born Moishe Socora ...
& Bill Reid 1978 - executive producer
* ''So Long to Run'' - short film, Charles Lapp 1978 - executive producer
* ''Teach Me to Dance'' - short film,
Anne Wheeler 1978 - co-producer with Vladimir Valenta &
John Howe
* ''Voice of the Fugitive'' - short film,
René Bonnière 1978 - executive producer
* ''The War is Over'' - short film,
René Bonnière 1978 - executive producer
* ''
Bravery in the Field'' - short film,
Giles Walker 1979 - executive producer, co-producer with
Stefan Wodoslawsky
* ''Gopher Broke'' - short film, Peter Thurling 1979 - executive producer, co-producer with
Stefan Wodoslawsky
* ''Love on Wheels'' - short film, Ben Low & Ian Rankin 1979 - executive producer
* ''Northern Composition'' - documentary short, Bruce Mackay & Gary Toole 1979 - executive producer
* ''
Revolution's Orphans'' - documentary short,
John N. Smith 1979 - co-producer with Rob Iveson
* ''
Twice Upon a Time... (Il était deux fois)'' - short film,
Giles Walker 1979 - co-producer with
Stefan Wodoslawsky
* ''Why Men Rape'' - documentary, Douglas Jackson 1979 - executive producer
* ''Acting Class'' - documentary short,
John N. Smith 1980 - executive producer
* ''
Challenger: An Industrial Romance'' -
Stephen Low 1980 - executive producer
* ''Coming Back Alive'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig,
Paul Cowan, Rosemarie Shapley &
Bill Mason
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1980 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Maritimes Dig'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1980 - executive producer
* ''Prehistoric Artifacts, New Brunswick'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1980 - executive producer
* ''Nose and Tina'' - documentary short,
Norma Bailey
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1980 - executive producer
* ''This was the Beginning, Part 1: The Invertebrates'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1980 - executive producer
* ''This was the Beginning, Part 2: The Vertebrates'' - documentary short, Dennis Sawyer 1980 - executive producer
* ''Baxter Earns His Wings'' - short film,
Don Arioli 1981 - executive producer
* ''First Winter'' - documentary short,
John N. Smith 1981 - executive producer
* ''Arthritis: A Dialogue with Pain'' - documentary, Susan Huycke 1981 - co-executive producer with
Robert Verrall
* ''
Hail Columbia
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'' - IMAX documentary,
Graeme Ferguson 1981 - co-producer with
Graeme Ferguson
* ''Where the Buoys Are'' - documentary short,
Wolf Koenig,
Paul Cowan, Rosemarie Shapley,
Bill Mason
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1981 - co-producer with
Wolf Koenig
* ''Laughter in My Soul'' - documentary short, Halya Kuchmij 1983 - co-executive producer with
Robert Verrall
* ''Skyward'' - short film, IMAX,
Stephen Low 1985 - co-producer with Susumu Sakane
* ''Starbreaker'' - short film, Bruce Mackay 1984 - co-editor with Bruce Mackay, producer, co-executive producer with
Robert Verrall
* ''A Freedom to Move'' - documentary short, IMAX,
Michel Brault 1985 - executive producer
* ''We Are Born of Stars'' - documentary short, IMAX 3D,
Nelson Max 1985 - producer, writer
*''Heart Land'' - documentary short, IMAX,
Norma Bailey
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,
Richard Condie, Aaron Kim Johnston, Derek Mazur,
John Paskievich, Gail Singer & Brion Whitford 1987 - co-producer with Sally Dundas
* ''Echoes of the Sun'' - documentary short, IMAX 1990 - co-director with
Nelson Max, co-writer with Nelson Max &
Colin Low, co-producer with Fumio Sumi & Sally Dundas
* ''Flowers in the Sky'', IMAX, 1990 - co-producer with Charles Konowal
* ''
The Last Buffalo'' - documentary short, IMAX 3D,
Stephen Low 1990 - co-producer with Sally Dundas
* ''Imagine'' - documentary short, IMAX 3D, John Weiley 1993 - co-producer with Hyok-Kyu Kwon
* ''
Stones at the Max'' - concert film, IMAX,
Julien Temple
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, David Douglas, Noel Archambault, Christine Strande 1994 - co-director
* ''Paint Misbehavin’'' - animated short, IMAX 3D, Peter Stephenson 1996 - co-producer with
Steve Hoban
* ''
CyberWorld'' - animated film, IMAX 3D, Colin Davies & Elaine Despins 2000 - co-producer with Sally Dundas,
Steve Hoban & Hugh Murray
Awards
''Paul Tomkowicz: Street-Railway Switchman'' (1953)
*
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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,
Oberhausen
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: First Prize, 1958
*
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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EIFF presents both UK and international films (all titles are World, international, European or UK Premieres), in al ...
,
Edinburgh
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: Diploma of Merit, Cultural, 1958
*
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg,
Mannheim
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: Special Commendation of The Jury, 1958
''Blood and Fire'' (1958)
* Ohio State Radio and TV Awards,
Columbus, Ohio
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: First Prize, 1960
*
11th Canadian Film Awards,
Toronto
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: Award of Merit, TV Information, 1959
''The Back-Breaking Leaf'' (1959)
*
1960 Cannes Film Festival,
Cannes
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: Eurovision Grand Prize, Documentary Films, 1960
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon Award, Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, 1961
* International Labour and Industrial Film Festival,
Antwerp
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: Diploma of Merit, Films Dealing with the Problems of People at Work, 1963
''The Cars in Your Life'' (1960)
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Citizen, Government & City Planning, 1963
''
Universe
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'' (1960)
*
14th British Academy Film Awards, London: BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, 1961
*
Yorkton Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
,
Yorkton
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Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928. ...
: Golden Sheaf Award, Best Film of the Festival, 1960
*
Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festi ...
,
Vancouver
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: First Prize, Documentary, 1960
*
13th Canadian Film Awards,
Toronto
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: Genie Award for Film of the Year, 1961
*
13th Canadian Film Awards,
Toronto
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: Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short, 1961
*
Salerno Film Festival,
Salerno
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: First Prize – Documentary, 1961
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Science and Mathematics, 1961
*
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio
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: Chris Award, Information/Education, 1961
* Rapallo International Film Festival,
Rapallo
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As of 2017 it had 29,778 inhabitants. It lies on the Ligurian Sea coast, on the Tigullio Gulf, between Portofino and ...
: Cup of the Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, 1961
*
Mar del Plata International Film Festival,
Mar del Plata
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: Grand Prize, 1962
* International Festival of Educational Films,
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Argentine Sea, Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón Partido, General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires ...
: Best Documentary, 1962
* La Plata International Children’s Festival,
La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. According to the 2022 Argentina census, census, the La Plata Partido, Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabit ...
: Silver Oak Leaf, First Prize, Scientific Films, 1962
* International Educational Film Festival,
Tehran
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: Golden Delfan, First Prize, Scientific Films, 1964
*
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world.
Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...
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Cannes
Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
: Jury Prize for Exceptional Animation Quality, 1960
*
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world.
Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...
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Cannes
Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
: Technical Mention of the Commission Supérieure Technique du Cinéma Français, 1960
* International Festival of Scientific and Technical Films,
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
: Diploma of Honour, 1960
* International Festival of Short Films,
Philadelphia
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: Award for Exceptional Merit, 1961
*
Stratford Film Festival,
Stratford, Ontario
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: Special Commendation, 1960
*
Cork International Film Festival,
Cork: First Prize – Diploma of Merit, 1960
*
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), established in 1947, is the world's oldest continually running film festival.
EIFF presents both UK and international films (all titles are World, international, European or UK Premieres), in al ...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...
: Diploma of Merit, Science, 1960
*
Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festi ...
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
: Diploma, Scientific Films, 1960
* Scientific Film Festival,
Caracas
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: Award of Merit, 1963
* ''Scholastic Teacher Magazine'' Annual Film Awards, New York: Award of Merit, 1963
* Educational Film Library Association of America, New York: Nomination, 10 Best Films of the Decade List, 1968
*
33rd Academy Awards
The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which ha ...
, Los Angeles: Nominee: Best Documentary Short Subject, 1961
''The Days of Whiskey Gap'' (1961)
*
1961 Cannes Film Festival
The 14th Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1961. French writer Jean Giono served as jury president for the main competition.
The ''Palme d'Or'' was jointly awarded to '' The Long Absence'' by Henri Colpi and '' Viridiana'' by Lu ...
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Cannes
Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
: Grand Prize, Documentary, 1961
*
Canadian Historical Association,
Toronto
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: Certificate of Merit "for outstanding contribution to local history in Canada", 1962
*
Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festi ...
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Vancouver
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: Honorable Mention, Sociology, 1962
''
Lonely Boy'' (1962)
* Festival dei Popoli,
Florence
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Florence ...
, Italy: Gold Medal, 1960
*
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world. Held in Oberhausen, it is one of the major international platforms for the short form. The festival holds an International ...
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Oberhausen
Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
: First Prize, Documentary, 1963
*
15th Canadian Film Awards,
Montreal
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: Film of the Year, 1963
*
15th Canadian Film Awards,
Montreal
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: Best Film, General Information, 1963
*
Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festi ...
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Vancouver
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: First Prize, Documentary, 1962
*
Ann Arbor Film Festival,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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: The Purchase Prize, 1963
*International Days of Short Films,
Tours
Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...
, France: Special Jury Prize, 1962
*
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), established in 1947, is the world's oldest continually running film festival.
EIFF presents both UK and international films (all titles are World, international, European or UK Premieres), in al ...
,
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...
, Scotland: Honorable Mention, 1962
*
1962 Cannes Film Festival,
Cannes
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: Honorable Mention, Documentary Works, 1962
''The Living Machine'' (1962)
*
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio
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: Chris Award, Public Information, 1963
* Villeurbanne Short Film Festival,
Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France ...
: Diploma of Honor, 1963
''
The Hutterites'' (1964)
*
Montreal International Film Festival,
Montreal
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: First Prize, Shorts, 1964
*
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio
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: Chris Award, First Prize, Religion, 1964
*
Yorkton Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
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Yorkton
Yorkton is a city located in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north-west of Winnipeg and south-east of Saskatoon and is the sixth largest city in the province.
Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928. ...
: Golden Sheaf Award, First Prize, Human Relations, 1964
*
Melbourne Film Festival,
Melbourne
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: Honorable Mention, 1964
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Doctrinal and Denominational Topics, 1965
* Landers Associates Awards, Los Angeles: Award of Merit
* Festival dei Popoli/International Film Festival on Social Documentary,
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
: Second Prize, 1965
''Above the Horizon'' (1964)
* Electronic, Nuclear and Teleradio Cinematographic Review,
Rome
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: Best Film in the Scientific Category, 1970
* International Survey of Scientific and Didactic Films,
Padua
Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...
: First Prize, Didactic Films
*
Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS),
Sydney
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: Orbit Award, 1966
*
18th Canadian Film Awards,
Montreal
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: Best Film for Children, 1966
* International Scientific Film Festival,
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
: Honorable Mention for Popularization of a Scientific Subject, 1969
* International Exhibition of Scientific Film,
Buenos Aires
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: Diploma of Honor, 1966
''
Nobody Waved Goodbye'' (1964)
*
18th British Academy Film Awards, London:
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, 1965
*
Salerno Film Festival,
Salerno
Salerno (, ; ; ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located ...
: First Prize, 1968
*
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg,
Mannheim
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: CIDALC Award, 1964
* International Film Festival at Addis Ababa,
Addis Ababa
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: Third Prize, Feature Film, 1966
*
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
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Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...
: 9th Place, Canada’s Ten-Best Films, 1984
''Legault’s Place'' (1964)
*
Melbourne Film Festival,
Melbourne
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: Diploma of Merit, 1966
*
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the comp ...
, Chicago: Diploma of Merit, 1965
''Stravinsky'' (1965)
*
Montreal International Film Festival,
Montreal
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: Special Mention, Short Films, 1965
''Bargain Basement'' (1976)
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Fiction Films, 1977
*
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg,
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...
: People’s College Diploma, 1976
''For Gentlemen Only'' (1976)
*
27th Canadian Film Awards,
Toronto
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- Genie Award for Best TV Drama, 1976
''
One Man'' (1977)
*
ACTRA Award
The ACTRA Awards are Canadian accolades presented since 1972 to celebrate excellence in cinema, television and radio industries.[Montreal
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: Film of the Year, 1978
* Film Festival Antwerpen,
Antwerp
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: Second Best Film of the Festival, 1978
* Film Festival Antwerpen,
Antwerp
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: Honorable Mention by the Press Jury, 1978
''
Henry Ford's America'' (1977)
*
International Emmy Awards
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, New York: Best Non-Fiction Television Film, 1977
* Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Special Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement - Film as Communication, 1977
*
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio
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: Chris Bronze Plaque, Social Studies, 1978
* HEMISFILM,
San Antonio
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TX: Bronze Medallion for the Best Film, Documentary Over 27 Minutes, 1978
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Red Ribbon, Features: History & Economics, 1978
* U.S. Industrial Film Festival,
Elmhurst, Illinois
Elmhurst is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage and Cook County, Illinois, Cook counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a western suburb of Chicago. The population was 45,786 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
M ...
: Silver Screen Award for Outstanding Creativity in the Production of Audio-Visual Communications in International Competition, 1978
*
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the comp ...
, Chicago: Certificate of Merit, 1977
* APGA Film Festival, Washington, DC: Honorable Mention, 1977
''Voice of the Fugitive'' (1978)
*
Banff World Media Festival,
Banff, Alberta
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Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within ...
: Second Prize, Non-Serialized Drama, 1979
''Teach Me to Dance'' (1978)
*Child of our Time Festival,
Milan
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: Diploma of Honor, 1979
''
Revolution's Orphans'' (1979)
*
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the comp ...
, Chicago: Bronze Hugo, Short Subject - Drama, 1979
''Why Men Rape'' (1979)
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Red Ribbon, Mental Health, 1981
''
Bravery in the Field'' (1979)
*
1st Genie Awards,
Toronto
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: Outstanding TV Drama Under 30 Minutes, 1980
*
52nd Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee: Best Live Action Short Film, 1979
''
Challenger: An Industrial Romance'' (1980)
*
Grierson Awards,
Toronto
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: Grierson Award for Outstanding Documentary, 1981
*
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival,
Columbus, Ohio
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: Chris Bronze Plaque, 1981
* Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Silver Award for Second-Best Film of the Festival, 1980
* Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Best in Promotion, Commercial Sales and Public Relations, 1980
* Information Film Producers of America, Los Angeles: Gold Cindy Award, Best of Show, 1981
* U.S. Industrial Film Festival,
Elmhurst, Illinois
Elmhurst is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, DuPage and Cook County, Illinois, Cook counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a western suburb of Chicago. The population was 45,786 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
M ...
: First Place, Gold Camera Award, 1981
*
Bijou Awards,
Toronto
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: Best Documentary, 1981
* Festival of Technical Films and Films on Industrial Design,
Budapest
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: Special Prize, Informatory and Product-Propaganda Films, 1982
* American Film and Video Festival, New York: Honorable Mention, Management Training Films, 1982
''Nose and Tina'' (1980)
*
Yorkton Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
,
Yorkton
Yorkton is a city located in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about north-west of Winnipeg and south-east of Saskatoon and is the sixth largest city in the province.
Yorkton was founded in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1928. ...
: Golden Sheaf Award for Best Film, Human Condition, 1981
*
Bijou Awards,
Toronto
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: Outstanding Documentary Under 30 Minutes, 1981
Footnotes
References
* ''Life After Darth'', Steve Silberman, Wired Magazine, May 2005
External links
*
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