Glen Gano

Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Gano later attended the Egan Dramatic School in Los Angeles, where, as reported by The Times in July 1912, he and a young Eugene Pallette—then billed as E. W.—were amongst the "advanced pupils" appearing in the "Christmas-tree act" from Clyde Fitch's The Climbers."This Week: Nothing New But Vaudeville; Orpheum, Pantages and Empress Offer Splendid Bills; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/380180074/?clipping_id=161689825 Egan School Plays"]. The Los Angeles Times. July 7, 1912. p. 26. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

Launched 2 years later, Gano's screen acting career comprised a half-dozen appearances prior to America's entry into World War I, during which he served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/85859555/?clipping_id=13099693 "Camouflagers Due for France Visit Here Before Departure"]. The Pittsburgh Gazette Times. January 11, 1918. p. 3. Retrieved December 28, 2024.

By contrast, Gano's behind-the-camera credits span roughly half a century,[https://catalog.afi.com/Person/62223-Glen-Gano?isMiscCredit=False "Glen Gano Filmography"]. American Film Institute. Retrieved December 28, 2024. beginning with the 1921 canine-centered adventure film The Silent Call and concluding with American International's ill-conceived 1971 Thing with Two Heads precursor, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant.[https://archive.org/details/american-cinematographer-1945-08-pdf/page/n17/mode/2up?q=%22now+we+find+that+glen+gano%22+%22he+then+photographed%22 "Through the Editor's Finder"]. American Cinematographer. Volume 26, No. 8. August 1945. p. 270. Retrieved December 28, 2024.{{Cite news|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|date=1971-07-22|title=A Double Bill of Horror Arrives on Local Screens (Published 1971)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/22/archives/a-double-bill-of-horror-arrives-on-local-screens.html|access-date=2021-01-12|issn=0362-4331}} In the interim, Gano shot such works such as Three Stooges shorts Booby Dupes, Micro-Phonies, Idiots Deluxe, and The Yoke's On Me,Hogan, David J. (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zK2FUEw6IUYC&pg=PT590&dq=%22booby+dupes%22+%22idiots+deluxe%22+%22micro-phonies%22+%22glen+gano%22 Three Stooges FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses]. Milwaukee, WI: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. {{ISBN|978-1-55783-788-2}}.Pitts, Michael R. (2010). [https://books.google.com/books?id=PKxN1as8XOMC&pg=PA350 Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982]. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 350. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4447-2}}. the Charles Starrett western Frontier Gun Law,Hollywood Reporter (1950). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gVA5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22motion+picture%22+%22glen+gano%22 Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia]. Hollywood, CA: Hollywood Reporter Press. pp. 601, 638. {{OCLC|1405501842}}. and Budd Boetticher's A Guy, a Gal and a Pal, starring future producer Russ Meyer.

As a cinematographer, Gano became something of a celebrity, at least among industry insiders, both as a speaker and as the author of numerous articles on the subject, published in The Amateur Cinematographer and The Film Mercury.[https://books.google.com/books?id=eU5WRAAQZ1AC&pg=RA2-PA16&dq=%22to+transfer+film+library%22+%22at+the+open+meeting%22 "To Transfer Film Library from New York to Hollywood"]. American Cinematographer. June 1927. p. 16. Retrieved December 28, 2024.Gano, Glenn (April 1928). [https://books.google.com/books?id=C9KnR3381rgC&pg=PA6 "The New Era in Cinephotography"]. The Amateur Cinematographer. p. 6. Retrieved December 28, 2024.Gano, Glen (January 4, 1929). [https://archive.org/details/filmmercury1928100merc/page/n85/mode/2up?q=%22glen+gano%22+%22the+silent+call%22 "Photography of the Talkie"]. The Film Mercury. p. 13. Retrieved December 28, 2024. See also:

• Gano, Glen (February 1, 1929). [https://archive.org/details/filmmercury1928100merc/page/n99/mode/2up?q=%22glen+gano%22+%22the+silent+call%22 "Is There a Future for Color Cinematography?"]. The Film Mercury. p. 10.
• Gano, Glen (February 15, 1929). [https://archive.org/details/filmmercury1928100merc/page/n117/mode/2up?q=%22glen+gano%22+%22the+silent+call%22 "Color Photography a Reality"]. The Film Mercury. p. 12.
• Gano, Glen (March 4, 1929). [https://archive.org/details/filmmercury1928100merc/page/n133/mode/2up?q=%22glen+gano%22+%22the+silent+call%22 "Designing Sets According to Line and Color"]. The Film Mercury. p. 14. He was also an innovator, having employed his own, home-made panchromatic stock on his 1921 DP debut.

One particularly ironic footnote to Gano's 2-part career is the fact that it is precisely that brief, now all but forgotten first chapter during which his most widely publicized—and nearly fatal—feat occurred. On December 6, 1915, during the filming of an episode of the serial The Hazards of Helen, Gana, reportedly acting as a stunt double for the film's star, Helen Holmes, suffered what, over the next few days, would be described variously as "a fatal fall,"U.P. (December 7, 1915). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregon-daily-journal/161629270/ "Movie Actor Has Fatal Fall"]. The Oregon Daily Journal. p. 1. Retrieved December 28, 2024. "tragic death,"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/elko-independent/161705674/ "Actor's Tragic Death"]. Elko Independent. December 7, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved December 28, 2024. "injuries from which he will probably die,"[https://www.newspapers.com/image/700200585/?clipping_id=161626248 "Motion Picture Actor Dangerously Injured in Scene"]. Venice Daily Vanguard. December 7, 1915. p. 8. Retrieved December 28, 2024. (aka "probably fatal injuries"),[https://www.newspapers.com/image/457545834/?clipping_id=161629495 "Train Hits Actor in Movie Thriller"]. The San Francisco Examiner. December 8, 1915. p. 1. making an ill-fated leap from the 4th Street Bridge in Los Angeles. Thankfully, reports of his demise proved premature.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/47103203/?clipping_id=161629649 "Movie Actor in Narrow Death Escape"]. The San Bernardino County Sun. December 8, 1915. p. 3. Retrieve3d December 28, 2024.

Gano died on May 7, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 80."California, Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGT9-PQM : 26 November 2014), Glen Gano, 07 May 1973; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

• The Silent Call (1921)
• White Fang (1925)
• Flashing Fangs (1926)
• Romance of the West (1930)
• Hot Biskits (1931), Spencer Williams directorial debut
• Gold Fever (1952)

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