Luis Korda Díaz acted primarily as photographer and travel companion of Fidel Castro, with whom he had a close relationship, and also Ernesto Guevara, whom he saw as rather arrogant – a personal view he shared with many other photographers. Luis Korda’s most famous image is also the most important photo of the Cuban revolution, showing the revolutionaries entering Havana on 8 January 1959 with Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos at the head of the procession. The fear that Studio Korda, a privately held company, could fall victim to nationalisation, drove Alberto Diaz and Luis Peirce to bequeath it to the Oficina
Alexander Korda three other films, "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (1948), "The Winslow Boy" (1948) and "The Fallen Idol" (1948). "The Winslow Boy" and "Fallen Idol" were hits. "An Ideal Husband" and "Anna Karenina" had some acclaim but lost money at the box-office. "Bonnie Prince Charlie" was a fiasco. Korda was also badly hurt by the trade war between the British and American film industries in the late 1940s. Korda did recover, in part due to a £3 million loan British Lion received from the National Film Finance Corporation. In 1948 Korda signed a co-production deal with David O. Selznick. This resulted in "The