Ghost Camera

Following the successful release of the independently made Money For Speed (1933), which co-starred Ida Lupino and was edited by David Lean, Bernard Vorhaus decided to accept an offer to work for Twickenham Studios, at that time one of Britain's busiest. Their resident editor, Jack Harris, was otherwise busy and so he was able to get Lean to edit The Ghost Camera (1933), one of Vorhaus' best-known British films. This neat little thriller was based on a story by J. Jefferson Farjeon, who also provided material for Hitchcock's Number Seventeen (1932) and three early films by Michael Powell, including The Phantom Light (1934).

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