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Anatoliy Kokush
Born (1951-05-25) May 25, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityUkrainian
Occupation(s)film engineer, businessman, inventor

Anatoliy Kokush (Ukrainian: Анатолій Акимович Кокуш; born 1951, Kerch, RSFSR) is a Ukrainian film engineer, businessman, and inventor. In the 1990s, he developed a gyro-stabilized car-mounted camera crane known as a U-Crane.

In 2005, he was awarded two Academy Awards. The awards were in the Scientific and Engineering Award category: one was awarded "for the concept and development of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head"; the other was awarded "for the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion picture cranes".[1] Kokush has also been recognized by Ukraine's then First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko for his contributions to Ukrainian cinema and around the world.[2]

Kokush graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers in 1974. He then started working for Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv.[3]

Gyro-stabilized car-mounted camera crane

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In the 1980s Kokush founded the film and television company Filmotechnic, based in Kyiv.[4][5] He explained that the machine known as the "Russian Arm"[6][7] is actually called Autorobot, and was given the nickname as a joke in the early nineties, when Americans in Hollywood joked that "the Russian Arm is back in America again".[8] Filmotechnic provided Travelling Cascade Cranes, Flight Heads and Russian Arms to major Hollywood pictures such as Titanic, War of the Worlds, Casanova, and also the wuxia film Hero, many Russian blockbusters, as well as Ukrainian films.[8] Other films include The Italian Job, Ocean's Twelve, King Arthur, Kingdom of Heaven, Bean: The Movie, Transformers, Iron Man 2, and many other huge box office hits.[9]

On 1 March 2022, in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Filmotechnic officially renamed the gyro-stabilized crane as U-Crane, "in honor of country of origin and their heroic fight against Russian aggression."[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ Academy Awards 2006 – IMDb
  2. ^ Oscar-winning cinematographer revolutionizes film industry Article from Kyiv Post
  3. ^ The International Kyiv Film Festival nominee page 2007 Archived 26 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
  4. ^ "Filmotechnic's 'Russian Arm' Takes Its Name From History". SHOOTonline. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  5. ^ "U-CRANE". AIRWOLF FILMS.
  6. ^ "RUSSIAN-ARM-6". Filmotechnic USA. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  7. ^ Paikova, Valeria (7 April 2021). "How the 'Russian Arm' took the movie industry by storm". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  8. ^ a b Ефект Кокуша ("The effect of Kokush") Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine Ukrainian newspaper Day (in Ukrainian)
  9. ^ "List of credits on official website". Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  10. ^ Maddaus, Gene (17 March 2022). "The 'Russian Arm' — Made in Ukraine — Gets a Name Change". Variety. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  11. ^ "Ukrainian-made 'Russian Arm' camera system gets new name: 'U-Crane'". ABC7 Los Angeles. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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