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Filmmaker · Argentina

Mario Gallo

Died in 1945

Mario Gallo was born on 31 July 1878 in Barletta, in Apulia, and settled in Argentina in 1905. He shot reconstructions of the nation's history, among the first fiction films in the country, then the first Argentine feature film according to Página/12, and owned film studios under his own name. He took up the camera again, as director and cameraman, from the mid-teens to the twenties. He died in Buenos Aires in 1945.

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