There is a story in today’s Telegraph about the Stanley Kubrick Archive – “all 900 boxes of it”, so I thought readers might be interested in a link to this story as well as information about the Archive at the University of the Arts London.
Today’s story can be found at The Telegraph – see “Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey” – which includes photos of props from Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Eyes Wide Shut.
The Stanley Kubrick Archive is at the University of the Arts London, in their Archives and Special Collections Centre, which is open to the public. The design of the archive is based on 2001: A Space Odyssey, and opened in October 2007. More information can be found on their website at arts.as.uk.
Per the website, highlights include:
- Records, videocassettes, and audio reels with film sound and interviews
- Special effects patterns, and reference material from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘
- Location research and art department photographs and material; scripts in various stages with annotations, handwritten and machine typed
- Props including the Star Child from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘, Wendy’s knife and Jack’s axe and novel from ‘The Shining‘. Three army vehicles from ‘Full Metal Jacket‘ and props from ‘Eyes Wide Shut‘
- Thousands of set/film images and lobby cards. Posters and poster designs, e.g. Philip Castle’s for ‘A Clockwork Orange‘.
- Awards that Stanley Kubrick received. Advertisement campaign material, as well as ad layout material Set design material and architecture plans, sketches, notebooks, office paper work and correspondence
- Books with dedications to Kubrick, and others with annotations by Stanley Kubrick, and books about him
- Call sheets, shooting schedules, continuity reports and polaroids that provide details of the actual filming situations
- Camera lenses and other equipment such as the Zeiss lens from ‘Barry Lyndon‘, an adapted Citroën 2CV for mounting a camera, and one of Kubrick’s directing chairs
- Publicity such as magazines and press clippings, cinema trailers and lighting tests
- Casting material, photographs and audition tapes
- Costumes from ‘Barry Lyndon‘, ‘The Shining‘, ‘Eyes Wide Shut‘ (including many masks) and Dan Richter’s ape costume from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘.
Jason De Bord