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  Ferguson, Ivan Graeme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ferguson, Ivan Graeme, filmmaker, executive (b at Toronto 7 Oct 1929).
While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto, Ivan Graeme Ferguson was selected as a summer student in 1950 by the NATIONAL FILM BOARD of Canada, where he received his early training as a filmmaker.
Ferguson has been the recipient of numerous awards and acclaim for his contributions to the film industry, both in Canada and internationally.
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 Sci-Fi Web Channel - LFCA - Leonard Maltin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ivan Graeme Ferguson was born in Toronto in 1929.
Ferguson was the producer, director, and cinematographer for the multi-screen presentation, which featured eight interlocking projectors and screens.
Ferguson is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the International Cinematographers Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
www.scifiwebchannel.com /QuantumQuest/LFCAFerguson.html   (1070 words)

  
 The Birth of IMAX
Ferguson began making films when he was a student at the University of Toronto and was selected one summer to intern at the NFB.
Ferguson and Kerr had acquired some capital and loans, and they had advance money from Fuji, but it wouldn't cover the cost of developing the projector.
That goal, as Ferguson expressed it, was to have one projector for the large screen and a "standardized system that could be used by everybody around the world." They wanted to take the big screen out of Expos and into everyday experience and make it commercially successful.
www.ewh.ieee.org /reg/7/millennium/imax/imax_birth.html   (1547 words)

  
 Giant Influence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker, inventor and founding president of Imax Corporation, will get top honors at the annual conference of the Large Format Cinema Association (LFCA) in Universal City.
Moore adds, "Graeme was so bent on getting other filmmakers to see and use the medium in the way he envisioned, that the first IMAX cameras had these viewfinders that were completely impractical for the cinematographer.
Graeme had the savvy to form a sequence in the middle of chaos, under less than ideal conditions and with limited resources-which are the characteristic conditions of filming a large-format documentary."
www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000886035   (706 words)

  
 CBC Montreal - Montreal pair wanted for Ottawa murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for two men facing murder charges after the body of a Vancouver-area resident was found near the bus terminal in Ottawa last July.
Graeme Ferguson, 27, died after collapsing on a sidewalk in Ottawa on July 19.
Graeme Ferguson in a hotel in downtown Ottawa," said Staff Sgt. Monique Perras.
www.cbc.ca /montreal/story/qc-ottmrdr-060201.html?ref=rss   (244 words)

  
 Search Results for Ferguson - Encyclopædia Britannica
British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle.
Ferguson, Tom R. American cowboy who six times consecutively (1974–79) won the all-around cowboy title of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (before 1975, the Rodeo Cowboys Association), breaking Larry...
Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education were two of the Supreme Court's historic decisions on civil rights.
www.britannica.com /search?query=Ferguson&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (386 words)

  
 Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Elizabeth Graeme grew up in a wealthy and influential family at a country estate, Graeme Park, outside Philadelphia.
As prime minister of New Zealand from 1912 until his death in 1925, William Ferguson Massey served in the Imperial War Cabinet during World War I and signed the Treaty of Versailles, making his country a founding member of the League of Nations.
Massey was a Conservative whose harsh repression of strikers led to the formation of New Zealand's Labour party in...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9125721   (780 words)

  
 The Large Format Cinema Association Selects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
- The Large Format Cinema Association (LFCA) is pleased to announce that distinguished filmmaker Graeme Ferguson, one of the original founders of IMAX Corporation, has been selected to receive the prestigious 7th Annual Kodak Vision Award.
“Graeme Ferguson is that rare combination of artist and scientist, who recognized the possibilities for telling compelling stories on large format film,” says Kodak’s Tim Knapp.
Ferguson and his former classmates Roman Kroitor (co-producer of Labyrinth) and Robert Kerr (co-producer of Polar Life and the Mayor of Galt) designed and produced Polar Life, which was featured at the “Man and the Polar Regions” Pavilion during the Expo ‘67 world’s fair in Montreal.
www.worldenteractive.com /ferguson.htm   (966 words)

  
 TAKE ONE: Imax at 30
Conceived by freelance cinematographer Graeme Ferguson and National Film Board producer and director Roman Kroitor in the fall of 1967--their goal was to create the world's most sophisticated film projection system.
Take One interviewed Graeme Ferguson when it was announced that the Imax Corporation had been given its long overdue Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement this past spring.
Ferguson not only co-founded the company, he has also been responsible for producing and directing some of its most successful films: North of Superior (produced, directed, photographed, edited, 71), Man Belongs to the Earth (directed, produced with Roman Kroitor, 74), Ocean (produced and directed, 77), Hail Columbia!
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_17_6/ai_30480071   (1279 words)

  
 Space Station - Press Releases
Myers began her association with large-format films in 1967 as assistant editor of Graeme Ferguson’s stunning multi-screen documentary for EXPO ‘67, Polar Life, then with the debut of the IMAX technology, edited Ferguson’s pioneering large-format film North of Superior.
Ferguson has been recognized with many awards, including the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal, the Canadian Government Environmental Achievement Award and two Genie Awards, Canada’s highest film honor.
Ferguson was honored with NASA’s coveted Silver Snoopy Award for outstanding contribution to the space industry.
www.imax.com /spacestation/html/about_the_filmmakers.html   (1486 words)

  
 Mission To Mir: The Making of 'Mir', p2 of 3
Myers began her association with Graeme Ferguson in 1967 as assistant editor of the trail-blazing multi-screen film, Polar Life.
Building on that success, Ferguson and his partners developed the giant-screen IMAX system, which has expanded to more than 150 specialized theatres in 22 countries around the world.
In 1993, Ferguson was invested into the Order of Canada and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford, England.
www.imax.com /mission2mir/making2a.html   (535 words)

  
 Destiny In Space | Production Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Credit goes to the IMAX technicians and to the Lockheed support team at the Johnson Space Center, who are responsible for ensuring that the IMAX hardware and that of the Space Shuttle are compatible.
During the flight, Imax Space Team members (Graeme Ferguson, James Neihouse, Toni Myers and Phyllis Ferguson, with two or more engineering support people) work around-the-clock shifts to support the flight crew.
The IMAX Cargo Bay Camera is mounted in a position pre-selected by Graeme Ferguson, and protected by a housing designed by NASA engineers to safeguard it and keep it at a steady temperature.
www.aerospaced.org /imax/current/destiny/production_notes.html   (1252 words)

  
 Graeme Park People: Who worked at Graeme Park?
N.B. It is supposed he is gone towards New-York: All matters of vessels are forbid to carry him off at their peril.
Research into the workers at Fountain Low and Graeme Park in the 1700s indicates a 3 tiered labor force consisting of slaves, indentured servants and paid laborers.
A Henry Slauten and Michael Gross were indentured to Dr. Graeme in the 1750s.
www.ushistory.org /graeme/people/workers.htm   (646 words)

  
 Movie Awards - TV Awards - Film Festivals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Large Format Cinema Assn. has tapped Graeme Ferguson, an original founder of the Imax Corp., to receive the 7th annual Kodak Vision Award.
"Graeme Ferguson is that rare combination of artist and scientist, who recognized the possibilities for telling compelling stories on large-format film," Kodak's Tim Knapp said.
We are all indebted to him." The LFCA and Kodak will present the honor to Ferguson at the 2005 LFCA Conference and Film Festival in Universal City on April 27-29.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000800848   (193 words)

  
 IGS: Vodafone content chief warns industry over "crap" mobile games // GamesIndustry.biz
Elsewhere in his speech, Ferguson addressed a number of questions about the future of the mobile games market.
Talking about device fragmentation, he had little solace to offer developers, saying that fragmentation will continue to be an issue for as long as services continue to be differentiated by the handsets they offer.
Ferguson was also adamant that the games industry should embrace the new 3G handsets and services.
www.gamesindustry.biz /content_page.php?aid=9689   (508 words)

  
 Destiny In Space | Production Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Co-founder and past president of Imax Corporation, Ferguson has been an active filmmaker since the early 1950s.
Ferguson has been involved in all stages of the development of the IMAX medium, as well as being one of the corporation's principal filmmakers.
Ferguson has been recognized with many awards, including the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal, the Canadian Government Environmental Achievement Award, and two Genie Awards.
www.aerospaced.org /imax/current/destiny/production_team.html   (865 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Scotland: News - Leonhardsen keen to join Gers
Tottenham midfielder Oyvind Leonhardsen all but volunteered to reverse the Rangers- to-England transfer trend last night as Sir Alex Ferguson and Graeme Souness declared their readiness to ease Alex McLeish's Ibrox initiation.
Ferguson said: 'Alex knows he is never imposing on me. He has never been afraid to call for advice because of our friendship.
Ferguson, coveted by Leeds United, also sought to dismiss speculation about his future but, whatever happens, the midfield must be strengthened.
www.soccernet.com /scotland/news/2001/1217/20011217rfcsleonhardsen.html   (575 words)

  
 Untitled Document
1737- Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson birthday- writer whose primary fame rests on being a go-between on behalf of the British with revolutionary forces at the behest (or insistence) of her husband, a loyalist..
In October 1777 Ferguson's husband prevailed upon her to carry from the Reverend Jacob Duché to General George Washington a letter urging Washington to surrender.
Her husband had already been attainted and proscribed, and late in the war Graeme Park was confiscated.
www.leasingnews.org /American_History/feb_03.htm   (5238 words)

  
 A Day at the LFCA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
  Graeme responded IMAX for the home, with a screen taking up an entire wall on one side of the room, and the projector on the other.
On Thursday April 28, 2005 Graeme Ferguson received the 7th Annual Kodak Vision Award at the LFCA 2005 conference and film festival.
Ferguson holds his award while looking at Beverly Pasterczyk (Kodak), to her left is David Keighley (SVP IMAX Corp., President DKP 70mm Inc.)
www.worldenteractive.com /lfcaday4.htm   (1867 words)

  
 CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Graeme Ferguson joined Vodafone in August 2002 to lead the Content Development Team for Vodafone Group Services Ltd. This team is Vodafone Group’s central content broker providing a single-focus point for the development of Vodafone’s content strategy and the commercial relationships with leading multi-market content providers, key media owners and premium rights holders.
Graeme’s focus is to ensure Vodafones’ customers continue to have access to the best range of world-class premium content and services.
He leads the development of the business models and value chains that will help create a viable commercial ecosystem for mainstream content owners.
www.wirelessit.com /general/speaker_bios.cfm?speakerID=5571   (97 words)

  
 MocoNews.net: mobile content news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Vodafone global content boss Graeme Ferguson has slammed the makers of mobile games at the ELSPA International Games Summit, claiming many games were of low quality — a fact particularly bad for games based on good licenses.
He went on to advise game developers to get used to the problem of porting to diverse handsets, as it was an inevitable result of mobile services being differentiated by the handsets they offer.
Graeme really ought to take a look at his own portal as similar adjectives have been used to describe it.
www.moconews.net /?p=2634   (759 words)

  
 You'll Be a Man if You Play Rugby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
'You'll Be A Man If You Play Rugby' is Graeme Ferguson's first book and is an evolution of the research Graeme completed for his Master of Education dissertation.
This book provides an analysis and documentation of the gendered impact of sport on students, with a particular focus on how masculinity is idealised, naturalised and legitimised.
An interesting topic with some humorous anecdotes and a serious message, this is a very respectable first novel for Graeme Ferguson.
www.cce.ac.nz /info/PostEd/manrugby.html   (448 words)

  
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Action required: all parties to sign one copy of the contract return signed contract to Graeme Ferguson retain second contract for your reference.
Yours sincerely, Graeme Ferguson 14-19 Pathfinder Co-ordinator Derby City, LEA Return to: Graeme Ferguson 14-19 Pathfinder Co-ordinator Derbyshire Learning and Skills Council St Helens Court St Helens Street Derby DE1 3GY We confirm that we have read understand the general terms and conditions attaching to grants made by the 14-19 Pathfinder project.
We hereby accept the grant offer of a maximum of £15,000 subject to the general terms and conditions as set out.
www.derby.gov.uk /NR/rdonlyres/FEF72797-CFF9-45CE-A91B-D9E2E7B766BB/0/Eilpbidref39.doc   (1491 words)

  
 J. Neihouse: Training Astronauts to Film in Space - Big Movie Zone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
We were hired by IMAX co-founder Graeme Ferguson to shoot the underwater portions “Ocean”, a film for the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater.
I had taught scuba diving to help pay my way through school and ended up teaching Graeme how to dive so he could jump in the water with us while we were shooting.
JN: My first introduction into the IMAX space team was as an assistant on “Hail Columbia”, again it was Graeme Ferguson that brought me along on that one.
www.bigmoviezone.com /articles/?uniq=79   (5068 words)

  
 winners90
There was only one title collected in 1991, Graeme Ferguson winning the Indoor District Shot Putt title with a throw of 12m 96cm.
That being said, it was encouraging to see a good number of athletes appear in the rankings, even more encouraging to see a number of youngsters appearing.
Graeme Ferguson was also beginning to show his versatility on the field, finishing 12th in the Shot Putt, 17th in the Discus and 9th in the Hammer.
www.users.totalise.co.uk /~alanramage/rankscot1991.htm   (226 words)

  
 DigiGuide : Graeme Ferguson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Ottawa Police Service - News and Speeches
Fifth Update: Graeme Ferguson Homicide July 19, 2005
Fourth Update: Graeme Ferguson Homicide July 19, 2005
Third Update: Graeme Ferguson Homicide July 19, 2005
www.ottawapolice.ca /en/serving_ottawa/media_room/newsreleases.cfm?pm=true   (92 words)

  
 Movies @ Big Movie Zone -- Movies, Movie Reviews, Trailers, Movie Showtimes and More
Founder and past president of Imax Corporation, Graeme Ferguson has been an active filmmaker since the early 1950s.
He has produced (or co-produced) such films as NORTH OF SUPERIOR, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH, SNOW JOB, OCEAN, HAIL COLUMBIA!; three space films THE DREAM IS ALIVE, BLUE PLANET and DESTINY IN SPACE; and the first large-format 3D underwater film INTO THE DEEP.
Ferguson to Receive Kodak Vision Award at LFCA (February 15, 2005)
www.bigmoviezone.com /filmsearch/producers/producer_display.html?uniq=27   (272 words)

  
 Fathoms Online Magazine for underwater enthusiasts
One of the filmmakers who had become expert in making these films was Graeme Ferguson, a Canadian who had a big hit at the Montreal Fair.
It would premiere in an enormous 800-seat IMAX theatre, which was destined to be torn down after one year.
Jim went to Canada and discussed the camera situation with Graeme Ferguson and Bill Shaw and their partner, Robert Kerr.
www.fathomspub.com /cgi/interview.pl/6   (14468 words)

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