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Allan Dwan studied engineering at the University of Notre Dame and then worked for a lighting company in Chicago. He had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry, and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job. [1]
Career. Allan started his career as an engineer with a lighting company in Chicago. The production house ‘Essanay Studios’ was a client of the company he was working with, and during one of his assignments to inspect the lights installation in the studio, he came across movie producer George Spoor.
Dwan spoke of seeing stories as mathematical problems, of plotting out relationships as dots connected by lines, ensuring no distracting loose ends (ibid.)
Sep 1, 1996 · They show his venomous wit and charm undiminished in spite of his advanced age and compromised living situation (once the owner of a Beverly Hills mansion, he was living with his housekeeper, Bonita, in her modest home in the San Fernando Valley). Dwan was born on April 3, 1885 and died Dec. 2, 1981 at the age of 96. * * * Dwan is 95 years old.
Dec 19, 2012 · Allan Dwan (1885-1981), the oldest of the directors here, invented the mercury vapor lamps that replaced klieg lights and their clouds of carbon dust. He recalls filming while hiding from the posses of the Patents Company.
Jun 19, 2011 · Allan Dwan's engineering background was useful in solving early technical problems and he is credited with inventing the dolly shot (using a car) in 1915. In 1917 he set up one of the most famous shots in all of silent film, the camera swooping down and taking in all of the huge Babylonian set in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance .
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Allan Dwan was born on April 3, 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Bound in Morocco (1918), A Perfect Crime (1921) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush.
