Rare Behind-The-Scenes Clips From Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING
A brief video was recently pointed out to me that offers us a rare behind-the-scenes look at Stanely Kubrick's The Shining. This footage was originally part of a French television broadcast way back in 1980.
The footage comes from over 80 hours of unreleased footage that was shot by Kubrick's seventeen-year-old daughter, Vivian, who was granted full access to the set of the film to shoot a documentary. A thirty minute documentary was officially released, but the rest of that footage currently resides at the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the London College of Communication. Unfortunately, none of it is available for public viewing.
You can get a taste of that footage in the video directly below. Then under that, I included the full documentary that Kubrick's daughter made, just in case you've never seen it before!
A breakdown of the clips above was provided by The Overlook Hotel:
In the first clip. we see the filming of the shot where Jack Nicholson chops down the Caretaker’s Apartment entrance door. The finished shot used in the film contains a series of impeccably operated whip-pans, and this clip shows, for the first time, that it was Stanley Kubrick himself who operated the camera during the shot.
Now, here's the "Making Of" documentary: