Having to make a living, the aspiring, young filmmaker took jobs making commercials for some time until he finally saw his hard work pay off when given a chance to create his own theatrical film, Night of the Living Dead.Īn independent film, Romero would make Night of the Living Dead with a good deal of help from his Pittsburgh friends and amatuer locals working together on an estimated minor budget of $114,000. Naturally, most associate Romero’s name with such Horror film classics as 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead, and 1985’s Day of the Dead, but like any filmmaker, he had to start on the ground floor. A place he would adopt as the backdrop of some of his most memorable films, Romero embraced the Steel City as his own. A mix of Lithuanian and Spanish background, he would soon take his love for film to an academic level at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he studied Graphic Arts in 1960. In fact, it is said he would often take the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view back at home across the river. Romero? Coming from a working class New York family, he was the average American kid who was bit by the entertainment bug at a young age.
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