Paul Ivano, ASC (May 13, 1900 – April 9, 1984), was a Serbian– French–

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cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s. Born Paul Ivano Ivanichevitch, to Serbian parents in

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, he served for two years with the Franco–American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps, between 1916 and 1918. After the conclusion of

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, he remained in the

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, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the

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. He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year. In 1947 he was the cameraman who made the first aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir '' They Live by Night''.

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Pare Lorentz and Paul Ivano, Kern County, California, 1936, by Dorothea Lange

Television

The Lawless Years

References

External links

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The Paul Ivano Papers
at the

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′s Special Collections 1900 births 1984 deaths French cinematographers French people of Serbian descent People from Nice French emigrants to the United States {{Cinematographer-stub