Lawrence of Arabia

producer sam spiegel made the film through his british company horizon pictures and distributed through columbia pictures, obtaining the film rights to lawrence's 1926 memoir seven pillars of wisdom from alexander korda and lawrence's brother for 30,000 pounds in 1959. shot on super panavision-70 camera with panavision super panavision 70 series lenses and cinematography by freddie young, young shot with a small aperture, t5.6 or higher, to achieve a greater depth of field. shooting began in jordan in may 1961 and continued until the end of september, then shifted to seville, spain, where settings that had given way to modernization (cairo, jerusalem, damascus) had to be painstakingly recreated.