Colin Low (filmmaker)

Colin Archibald Low CM RCA (July 24, 1926 – February 24, 2016) was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

[3] Low studied graphic design and animation at the Banff School of Fine Arts and then the Calgary Institute of Technology.

[6] In 1960, Low and Roman Kroitor co-directed Universe, capturing the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who was preparing to make 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Low was invited to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey but had to decline because he was making In the Labyrinth, a multi-screen production for Expo 67.

All for the National Film Board of Canada[12][13][14] As Director, Executive Producer or Producer Cadet Rousselle (1946)[16] The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952)[17] Age of the Beaver (1952)[18] Corral (1954)[19] Riches of the Earth (1954)[20] A Thousand Million Years (1954) One Little Indian (1954)[21] The Jolifou Inn (1955)[22] Gold (1955)[24] City of Gold (1957)[25] City Out of Time (1959)[26] A is for Architecture (1960)[27] Circle of the Sun (1960)[28] Universe (1960)[29] Hors-d'oeuvre (1960)[30] Do You Know the Milky Way?

(1961)[31] Very Nice, Very Nice (1961)[32] The Days of Whiskey Gap (1961)[33] Pot-pourri (1962)[34] My Financial Career (1962)[35] 21-87 (1963)[36] I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1963)[37] Free Fall (1964)[38] The Hutterites (1964)[39] The Children of Fogo Island (1967)[40] The Sea (1971) Here is Canada (1972)[41] The Question of TV Violence (1972)[42] Coming Home (1973)[43] Sub-Igloo (1973)[44] The Man Who Can't Stop (1973)[45] Child, Part 1: Jamie, Ethan and Marlon: The First Two Months (1973)[46] Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)[47] Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks (1974)[48] Another Side of the Forest (1974)[49] Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut (1974)[50] In Praise of Hands (1974)[51] In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)[52] Waiting for Fidel (1974)[53] King of the Hill (1974)[54] Arctic IV (1975)[55] Jack Rabbit (1975)[56] Descent (1975)[57] The Lady and the Owl (1975)[58] Musicanada (1975)[59] Blackwood (1976)[60] A Great White Bird (1976)[61] High Grass Circus (1976)[62] The Land: A New Priority (1976)[63] Log House (1976)[64] Waterloo Farmers (1976)[65] Los Canadienses (1976)[66] Path of the Paddle: Doubles Whitewater (1977)[69] Standing Alone (1982)[70] Starlife (1983)[71] Momentum (1992)[72] Moving Pictures (2000)[73]