It\u2019s the 27th of May, 1976, and a rather stressed-out Vittorio Storaro, stuck in his hotel room, has just gotten off the just-reinstalled line with an enraged Francis Coppola. The already legendary DP has just received news of their set in Iba, on the western shore of Luzon, being destroyed when Typhoon Olga made landfall the night before.<\/p>\n
Unsure about the future of his biggest project to date, Storaro picks up the phone again and decides to call his laboratory and gear supplier back home to hear how things are going in Italy. On the other side of the planet, a scar-faced man, already in his late 50s, composedly listens to an agitated Storaro, trying to calm him down \u2014 in perfect Italian.<\/p>\n
Henryk Chroscicki was born in Poland in 1919 and served in the Australian Army in WWII. For his gallantry \u2014 leaving a distinct mark on the left side of his face during the war \u2014 the Australian government granted him a scholarship, which he used to apply to the prestigious \u201cInstitut des hautes \u00e9tudes cin\u00e9matographiques.\u201d After the Parisian film school rejected Chroscicki, he opted to enroll in his second choice, the \u201cCentro sperimentale di cinematografia\u201d in Rome.<\/p>\n
This is the man who would go on to build the lens infrastructure that made some of the greatest cinematography of the twentieth century possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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