Movie History In Waterloo Region
Waterloo Region has an Interesting History of FilmmakingLen and Charlie Roos' Canadian Film Company.
Galt natives Len and Charlie Roos left an indelible imprint on Canadian film in the 1920's with their Canadian Film Company. They started their film career around 1910 and made a 90-minute feature film called "Self Defense" during the First World War. During their career they produced movies on a range of themes and content from industry and agriculture to newsreels for Canadian Fox News and Canadian Pathé.
Cambridge technology takes Film-goers into space.
Cambridge natives Graeme Ferguson, Bill Shaw and Robert Kerr developed cameras and projectors capable of using 70 mm film … ten times larger than conventional 35 mm film. First used as part of Canada's pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka Japan, the technology went on to be the centre-piece for Toronto's Cinesphere at Ontario Place. Since 1968, Imax productions have been shot around the world and even into space by NASA astronauts aboard Shuttle flights … while IMAX theatres continue to be build around the globe.
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