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Anton Kutter (13 June 1903, in 
In 1926 Kutter went to Cologne and joined the Phototechnical Laboratory, and created his first films the same year. From 1931 to 1947 he worked for the Bavaria Film in Munich. In 1937 he made the science fiction movie, ''Weltraumschiff I startet'' pace Ship I Launches a story about a first Moon flight which he dated on 13 June 1963, his 60th birthday. Kutter was awarded two golden medals at the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutter, Anton 1903 births 1985 deaths People from Biberach an der Riss People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Film people from Baden-Württemberg 20th-century German inventors
Biberach an der Riß
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– 1 February 1985, in Biberach) was a German film director
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and screenwriter
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. He studied mechanical engineering
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at Stuttgart
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Technical University.
In 1926 Kutter went to Cologne and joined the Phototechnical Laboratory, and created his first films the same year. From 1931 to 1947 he worked for the Bavaria Film in Munich. In 1937 he made the science fiction movie, ''Weltraumschiff I startet'' pace Ship I Launches a story about a first Moon flight which he dated on 13 June 1963, his 60th birthday. Kutter was awarded two golden medals at the Venice Biennale
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.
Already at age 12, Kutter manufactured his first refracting telescope from lenses taken from a toy cinematograph
Cinematograph or kinematograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras as well as film projectors, or for complete systems that also provided means to print films (such as the ...
. Later he became known to Anton Staus (1872-1955) who introduced him to the theory of 's "Brachy" telescopes. He invented the Schiefspiegler telescope which is a modified Cassegrain reflector
The Cassegrain reflector is a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror, often used in optical telescopes and Antenna (radio), radio antennas, the main characteristic being that the optical path folds back onto itself, ...
featuring superb optical definition due to an off-axis secondary mirror. An obituary
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was published by Roger W. Sinnott in ''Sky & Telescope
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''.''Optical Innovator Dies – Kutter, Anton'' by Roger W. Sinnott in ''Sky & Telescope
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'', May 1985, p. 461.
Selected filmography
* ''Frau Sixta
''Frau Sixta'' is a 1938 German historical drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Franziska Kinz and Ilse Werner. It is based on the 1925 Frau Sixta (novel), novel of the same title by the Swiss writer Ernst Zahn.
Th ...
'' (1938)
* '' Dark Clouds Over the Dachstein'' (1953)
* '' Open Your Window'' (1953)
* '' The Song of Kaprun'' (1955)
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutter, Anton 1903 births 1985 deaths People from Biberach an der Riss People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Film people from Baden-Württemberg 20th-century German inventors