The Shining - A Retrospective (2012)

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Warner Brothers publicity still slide from The Shining. 

Only a handful of still frames were released to help promote the film, and all of those stills were personally approved by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick used the still selection project as an opportunity to mentor a young aspiring photographer named Murray Close, who was a schoolmate of Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian. Close went on to be the only Kubrick-sanctioned photographer on the set of The Shining, and subsequently established himself as a well-respected production photographer.

This particular still is notable in that it is not a frame seen in the finished film; it’s presumably a frame from an alternate take of the same shot. It has also been color-timed to a much cooler hue than the shot that appears in the finished film.

(image courtesy Marc Finkel)

On the set of The Shining.

Rejected posters for The Shining (1980)

Director Stanley Kubrick made the artist Saul Bass submit more than 300 versions before picking the classic yellow one. You can see Kubrick’s notes on them like “Looks like science fiction film” and “Hand and bike are too irrelevant”. (x)

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Actor Jack Nicholson and Director Stanley Kubrick review video playback of a take on The Shining’s Lobby set.