The idea of covering camera lenses with silk stockings to give an earth-toned quality in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof should be credited to the cinematographer Oswald Morris, rather than the director Norman Jewison (obituary, 23 January).
Before taking his customary week’s holiday before the start of a new project, Jewison asked Ossie to produce any colour style tests he thought fit. As he and I recounted in the co-authored memoir, Huston We Have a Problem, Ossie was facing nothing but brown: in people’s clothes, their houses and their individual faces. “It was like putting varnish on a painting,” he said.
