- Jerzy Toeplitz
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Jerzy Toeplitz AO (24 November 1909 – 25 July 1995) was born in 1909 in Kharkiv (at that time in Russia). He was educated in Warsaw. After World War II he was the co-founder of the Polish Film School, and later took up an appointment in Australia for the Film and TV School.
Between 1948 and 1972 he was Vice-President of the International Film and Television Council (USA). He was also an author and published a number of books which have been translated into many languages. Toeplitz also, for almost 30 years (1948–1971), was the president of the International Federation of Films Archives (FIAF), where he accomplished a very important role, overall in the Cold War conjuncture, especially into a very big crisis of the FIAF's history (perhaps the worst), when Henri Langlois (one of the Cinemathèquè Française's founders) left the FIAF. Toeplitz's job was a very important differential (typical of his generation) because he was a cinema's teacher and a leader of an educational project in the Polish city of Łódź (a reference into the period). This school had a decisive impact on the modern cinema in Poland.
In 1985 he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to Australian film.[1] In 1986, he was a member of the jury at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
References
- ^ It's an Honour: AO
- ^ "Berlinale: 1986 Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1986/04_jury_1986/04_Jury_1986.html. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
Bibliography
- History of Cinema Art Five volume set translated from Polish into Russian and German
- Film and TV in the USA Translated into Russian, Czech and Slovak
- Hollywood and After: The changing Face of American Cinema Translated into English by Boleslaw Sulik
- BORDE, Raymond. Les Cinémathèques, L'Age D'Homme, 1983, Lausanne.
- Obituary in The Independent by Adrian Dannatt
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Categories:- 1909 births
- 1995 deaths
- Film educators
- Film theorists
- Honorary Officers of the Order of Australia
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