The smaller film stock also resulted in a grainier, inferior image. He is the first person Grainier himself ever saw die. Grainier, then thirty-five years old, begins missing his wife and daughter. In short, the higher the sensitivity, the grainier the image will be. Robert Grainier dies in his sleep in November 1968, over the age of 80. Grainier was born in 1886 in either Utah or Canada. Grainier quit school in his early teens and began fishing for himself. Thereafter, Grainier lived in his cabin, even through the winters. Around this time, Grainier hears rumors of a wolf-girl. Grainier continues to live in his cabin, despite having arthritis and rheumatism. In a memory from 1935, Grainier attends a sideshow to see a "wolf-boy".