For the past two days we have been sifting through copious amounts of boxes, files and folders in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the London College of Communication. We didn't even scratch the surface of what was there, because Kubrick kept everything.....EVERYTHING! receipts, telegrams, notes, every script draft, telephone messages, posters printed in each language, film stock tests, editing notes, props, doodles made by artists, and more.

He Also had hundreds of thousands of photographs taken by himself and others for EVERY one of his films in regard to costume research, location research, on set photos, post production photos, and all of the advertising material in bus shelters, window displays, cinema foyers, crowds lining up for premieres, audiences watching his films, photographs of every projector in the cinemas that projected his films from all around the world. The list is too long to write here, but what was amazing is that he took the time to archive it all himself, he could find anything instantly! he even designed, and had made the boxes that all of this would go in. I couldn't take any photos at all, but was free to look at anything I wished after looking through the computer database, these are some photos i found to illustrate.

My photo.

The place is designed to look like the moon base from 2001 don't you think?

All of these sheets from the Shining were hand typed for scenes in the film (in each language for the country in which it was shown in to...) and kept!

Saw hundreds of Saul Bass' original doodles and sketches for this poster he designed.

His own B&W shots to find the 'right' twins.

Correspondence regarding the right eye clamps to use for this scene from doctors around the world. He even got one of these doctors to go into an eye operation and shoot rolls of close ups of the different clamps in actual use.

For every version of any poster, for all countries, he got an 8x1o colour 'tranny' made. For Clockwork orange we saw maybe 45 colour trannies for slight variations.

The god of visual research.