Paul Ivano

Paul Ivano, ASC (May 13, 1900 – April 9, 1984), was a Serbian-French-American cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s.^[3][4][5] Born Paul Ivano Ivanichevitch to Serbian parents in Nice, France, he served for two years with the Franco-American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps from 1916 to 1918.^[4][6] After the conclusion of World War I, he remained in the Balkans, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the American Red Cross.^[4] He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year.^[4] In 1947, he made cinematic history as the cameraman who captured the first-ever aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night.^[7][8]

Paul Ivano
Ivano (right) with camera assistants Robert Lazlo and Frank Heisler and Ella Raines on the set of The Suspect (1944)
Born	Paul Ivano-Ivanichevitch (Romanized Serbian) May 13, 1900 (1900-05-13) Nice, France
Died	April 9, 1984 (1984-04-10) (aged 83) Woodland Hills, California
Occupation	Cinematographer
Spouse	Margaret (Greta) Ginsburg Ivano[1][2]

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Cinematographer
Year	Film	Genre	Other notes
1949	Search for Danger
1945	Pursuit to Algiers	mystery film
1945	The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry	film noir	director of photography
1945	The Frozen Ghost
1945	Senorita from the West
1944	The Suspect		director of photography
1944	The Impostor
1943	Flesh and Fantasy
1936	The Plow That Broke the Plains	documentary film, selected in 1999, to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry	cinematography (uncredited)
1929	Queen Kelly		a film by Erich von Stroheim
1921	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse		top-grossing film of 1921

Dorothea Lange photograph of Paul Ivano, beside the camera at center, and documentary film pioneer Pare Lorentz, at left, in October 1935, near Bakersfield, California, at work on The Plow That Broke the Plains

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