Jerzy Toeplitz

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Jerzy Toeplitz was born in 1909 in Charkof in the USSR. He was educated in Warsaw. After WWII he was the co-founder of the Polish Film School, and later took up an appointment in Australia for the Film and TV School. Other than this he has traveled through India, Europe, and South America. Between 1948 to 1972 he became Vice-President of the International Film and Television Council (USA). He was also an author and has had 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) becouse he was a cinema's teacher and a leadear of a educational project in the polish city of Lodz (a reference into the period). This school was a decisive role in the modern cinema in Polish. About Toeplitz, the FIAF, and the history of the cinémathèques (Film Librarys/ Film Archives) around the world, see (for example): BORDE, Raymond. Les Cinémathèques, L'Age D'Homme, 1983, Lausanne.

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• 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