Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX...

hockey player Roman Jugg, Welsh punk musician Roman Kantor (1912–43), Polish épée fencer Roman Kemp (born 1993), English radio host Roman Kroitor (1926–2012)...

company was founded in 1967 when three filmmakers—Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr—incorporated IMAX Corporation. The idea and the new...

and was co-directed by Roman Kroitor, Colin Low and Hugh O'Connor, and produced by Tom Daly and Kroitor. After Expo, Kroitor left the NFB to co-found...

film directed by Canadian filmmaker Donald Brittain and produced by Roman Kroitor and Ichi Ichikawa. The second film produced by Multiscreen, the precursor...

format being available only in few selected locations. Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw were the co-founders of what would...

films for its nascent 3D business, starting with We Are Born of Stars (Roman Kroitor, 1985). A key point was that this production, as with all subsequent...

univers) is a 1960 black-and-white documentary short film made in 1960 by Roman Kroitor and Colin Low for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The NFB writes:...

and Roman Kroitor (prod./dir.). 1959a. Glenn Gould: Off the Record. Film, 30 mins. [Canada]: National Film Board of Canada. Koenig, Wolf, and Roman Kroitor...

and prequels, is said to have been inspired by a statement made by Roman Kroitor in the short film. In Star Wars, Princess Leia's prison cell on the...

Ontario in 1975 and 1976, and as a co-founder with Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and William C. Shaw of the IMAX company. The owner of a printing business...

Low recommending British mathematician Brian Salt, with whom Low and Roman Kroitor had previously worked on the 1957 still-animation documentary City of...

Canada, Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky producers, Giles Walker director Revolution's Orphans – National Film Board of Canada, Rob Iveson and Roman Kroitor...

broadcast in the series included: The Back- Breaking Leaf (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor producers; Terence Macartney-Filgate director), about tobacco farming...

the IMAX format is made. Directed by Donald Brittain and produced by Roman Kroitor and Kichi Ichikawa, it premiered at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan at the...

works as Colin Low's Corral, Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor’s Lonely Boy, Koenig and Low's City of Gold, Kroitor and Low's Universe, Arthur Lipsett’s Very...

of God The Blue Man 16 John Ingle 84 US Actor Heathers Senseless 16 Roman Kroitor 85 Canada Director, Producer In the Labyrinth City of Gold 24 Edward...

County, USA (directed by Barbara Kopple), Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films. The fundamentals of...

Martin Duckworth Neon, an Electric Memoir — Rudy Buttignol Skyward — Roman Kroitor Best Live Action Short Drama Best Animated Short The Edit — Paul Caulfield...

inspiration for the so-called 'Ken Burns effect'. In 1960, Low and Roman Kroitor co-directed Universe, capturing the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who...

Christopher Chapman Originally presented at Expo 67 In the Labyrinth 1967 Roman Kroitor Colin Low Hugh O'Connor Originally presented on multiple screens at...

Markle in 1983. IMAX movie system – co-invented by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr in 1968, following the creation of what is now the...

Canadian cinematographer Roman Kroitor in Arthur Lipsett's 21-87 (1963), a National Film Board production, in which Kroitor says, "Many people feel that...

the Animaniacs episode "La La Law"), dies at age 84. September 17: Roman Kroitor, Canadian filmmaker (Universe, creator of SANDDE), dies at age 85. September...

1965 National Film Board of Canada documentary Stravinsky, directed by Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig, followed Stravinsky conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra...

and "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"), (d. 2012). December 12: Roman Kroitor, Canadian filmmaker (Universe, creator of SANDDE), (d. 2012). December...

(52nd) Board and Care Sarah Pillsbury and Ron Ellis Bravery in the Field Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky Oh Brother, My Brother Carol Lowell and Ross...

Board and Care – Sarah Pillsbury and Ron Ellis‡ Bravery in the Field – Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky Oh Brother, My Brother – Carol Lowell and Ross...

Kybalchich, rocket science pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk, spaceflight pioneer Roman Kroitor Volodymyr Mackiw, mining engineer Borys Paton Yevhen Paton, welding...

term the Force to "echo" its use by cinematographer Roman Kroitor in 21-87 (1963), in which Kroitor says, "Many people feel that in the contemplation of...