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, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system.
[5] After seeing the ground-breaking NFB documentary Universe (1960), Stanley Kubrick tried to recruit Kroiter and Colin Low to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
[8] As reported by The Globe and Mail, Lucas first heard about "the force" in a conversation between Kroitor and Warren Sturgis McCulloch, 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.
[1] National Film Board of Canada[9][10][11] Paul Tomkowicz: Street-Railway Switchman (1953) [20] Blood and Fire (1958)[22] The Back-Breaking Leaf (1959)[23] The Cars in Your Life (1960)[24] Universe (1960)[25] The Days of Whiskey Gap (1961)[26] Lonely Boy (1962)[27] The Living Machine (1962)[28] The Hutterites (1964)[29] Above the Horizon (1964)[30] Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)[31] Legault’s Place (1964)[32] Stravinsky (1965)[33] Bargain Basement (1976)[34] For Gentlemen Only (1976)[36] One Man (1977)[37] Henry Ford's America (1977)[38] Voice of the Fugitive (1978)[39] Teach Me to Dance (1978)[40] Revolution's Orphans (1979)[41] Why Men Rape (1979)[42] Bravery in the Field (1979)[43] Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980)[44] Nose and Tina (1980)[45]