Walter Lassally

“Like a bakery that forswears dough”: Walter Lassally on the fetters of British filmmaking

What were the odds against a British new wave breaking in the early 1960s? The late, great cameraman Walter Lassally wrote this trenchant opinion piece for our Summer 1960 issue, railing against “the Dead Hand of apathy, of complacency and convention, whose grip is felt on all sides of the industry.”