[HN Gopher] Roman Kroitor, who gave us The Force, inspired 2001,...
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Roman Kroitor, who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed
film
Author : pseudolus
Score : 41 points
Date : 2021-04-04 11:05 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| Animats wrote:
| "Bigger", as in IMAX, did not come from Expo 67. It came from a
| long line of attempts to make really wide screen films. Cinerama
| (1952), Todd-AO (1953), Cinemascope (1953), etc. The really wide
| screen systems required custom theaters and very elaborate
| machinery, and never really caught on. Cinemascope requires just
| a lens adapter for an ordinary 35MM projector, and it went
| mainstream.
|
| What to do with widescreen cinematically was a big problem in the
| early days. Roller coaster demo reels introduced Cinemascope [1]
| and Todd-AO.[2]. 3D was tried in the same time period. Theaters
| were trying to do things TV could not do. But how do you tell a
| story on a huge screen without the screen getting in the way of
| the story? Most of the time, the screen won. (See the ending of
| "How the West Was Won" (1962).[3]) Michael Anderson (Around the
| World in 80 Days), not Kroitor, seems to be the director who
| figured that out. You make big-budget spectacles, with a plot in
| glorious locations. Ben-Hur and Cleopatra followed.
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| That's still the problem with IMax. The giant screen wins over
| the story.
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| [1] https://player.vimeo.com/video/266574534
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| [2] https://youtu.be/MU76gdjr-Dk
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| [3] https://youtu.be/8t_qToyqiOU?t=76
| herodoturtle wrote:
| This article - which was a delight to read - is about the
| Canadian filmmaker Roman Kroitor.
|
| Just thought I'd share that here for those of you that - like me
| - incorrectly assumed it was an article on George Lucas.
|
| That being said, the title is accurate, as you'll find out :)
| antattack wrote:
| Wikipedia page about Roman Kroitor is pretty sparse. Here's what
| was written of him when he passed away in 2012[1]:
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| "He was not a religious man, but his large and humane spirit was
| the force that imbued all of his projects, both the films he made
| himself and those he nurtured for others.
|
| Roman Boghdan Kroitor was born in Yorkton, Sask., on Dec. 12,
| 1926. His father, Peter, a teacher who had emigrated from
| Ukraine, died when Roman was four or five. His smart, determined
| and resourceful mother, Tatiana (nee Shewchuk) taught in one-room
| schools to support her family, moving him and his older sister
| from one community to another across the Prairies before settling
| in Winnipeg when he was of high school age.
|
| The film board, which was such a continuing presence in his life,
| was also a matchmaking catalyst. Through his NFB friends, he met
| his wife, Janet (Ferguson's sister), in Ottawa, where she was
| working at the National Design Centre. They were married in
| December, 1955, and had five children, a son and four daughters,
| and nine grandchildren."
|
| [1]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/roman-
| kroitor-8...
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I REALLY do not like seeing the uptick in articles from
| arstechnica. Not only are they shallow in their coverage, they
| are insanely biased in their reporting, as well as tolerating
| their employees disgusting behavior:
| https://nationalfile.com/left-wing-ars-technica-journalist-d...
|
| Ref: I've been reading Arstechnica since it was green and black.
| jhgb wrote:
| > they are insanely biased in their reporting
|
| > *cites National File*
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