Maurice Kanbar
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Maurice Kanbar is a New York native entrepreneur and inventor who lives in San Francisco, California. He created New York's first multiplex cinema, and owns over 36 patents on various consumer and medical products, invented the D-Fuzz-It comb for sweaters, Tangoes Puzzle Game, the Safetyglide hypodermic needle protector, a cryogenic cataract remover, and a new LED traffic light. In the beverage industry, Kanbar had a success with SKYY vodka and has recently launched Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur.
Kanbar is a graduate of Philadelphia University, Class of 1952. In 2005, he donated $6 million dollars for the construction of the school's new campus center.
He produced the animated film "Hoodwinked" which was released in January 2006.
Tisch School of the Arts, part of New York University, named its film school after him: The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.
[edit] Bibliography
- Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200056-6
[edit] External links
- The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
- San Francisco International Film Festival
- Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook published by Council Oak Books
- Blue Yonder Films - Makers of Hoodwinked! along with Kanbar Entertainment
- Tangoes Puzzle Game from Rex Games
- European official site for Vermeer Dutch Chococolate Cream Liqueur with link to US official website for Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur
- Official website for SKYY
- Philadelphia University's Kanbar Campus Center
- The Official Website of the "Hoodwinked" film
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