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Krakatoa, East of Java Overview:

Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) was a Drama - Action Film directed by Bernard Louis Kowalski and produced by Philip Yordan and William R. Forman.

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This became one of the last features to use Todd-AO for principal photography.

The producers learned of the geographic error (Krakatoa was west of Java in the Sundra Strait) only after all of the advertising and publicity materials had been prepared. It was deemed too costly to re-do these materials, and possibly delay the release, for the sake of simple geographic accuracy.

In the early phases of production there was no script, but they knew what special effects sequences were needed and special effects creator Eugène Lourié shot many of the miniature sequences before the writing was complete.

Eugène Lourié:  telegrapher.

During filming, the Cinerama cameras made so much noise that they drowned out the dialogue. All of the dialogue spoken in the film was re-recorded in post-production.

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