Stanley Croner
Stanley Croner
- First: Stanley
- Last: Croner
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- Died: August 8, 2008
- Occupation: Filmmaker
Bio
Stanley Croner directed, wrote, and produced many significant academic films in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. Croner's history films for EB were edgy for their time. Santa Fe and the Trail (1963) was perhaps the first time that subtitled bilingual language was used in an historical educational film, as Croner insisted that Spanish be used for authenticity. Interracial romance and mutual respect between the cultures were dual themes that were presented a good ten years before they began appearing more frequently in films of the mid-1970s. Gold Rush (1965) featured naked bathers, card sharps, prostitutes, and the exhumation of corpses believed to have been buried with gold. Stan Croner passed away on August 8, 2008. He was noted for standing by his principles when it would have been easier (and perhaps more lucrative) not to. He is missed by all of us.
Stan provided the Academic Film Archive of North America with the following autobiography and filmography.