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Born in Germany, cinematographer Walter Lassally (1926-2017) was best known for his Oscar-winning work on 'Zorba the Greek'. He was associated with the Free Cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s. [Listener: Peter Bowen; date recorded: 2004]

TRANSCRIPT: The next film we made... I made with Merchant Ivory was 'Savages'. And 'Savages' was Merchant Ivory's first American film. Because, up to that point, all their films had been made in India, and they lived in India. Merchant, of course, is Indian, and Ivory is American, born in Oregon. And Ivory had made a... James had made a documentary about Venice and a documentary about some Indian subject, Indian miniatures, I think, which is where he met Ivory... where he met Merchant, excuse me. And 'Savages' was their first American production.

And for 'Savages' the money was given by... provided by some Iranian financier, whose name is on the film. And it was made for a production company other than Merchant Ivory. That's to say jointly. That's very often the case. If you look at the titles, in the early days anyway, you would often see that it's a production... so and so production, Angelica, I think it was called in 'Savages', jointly with Merchant Ivory... in association with, all that sort of thing. Of course these days you frequently have eight associate producers and five executive producers. I always remind me... That always reminds me of the Olsen and Johnson joke, which is I think is somewhere in 'Hellzapoppin', where they have this long, long credit list where, everything is done by Olsen and Johnson, and then it says, directed by H E Potter, in brackets, a friend of Olsen and Johnson. The credits often remind me of that kind thing.