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Comments and reaction to Alex O'Connor's video interview with Bernardo Kastrup
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![The Shining - Stanley Kubrick interview 1980 just after UK premiere
Interview with Stanley Kubrick and a sit down interview with his daughter Vivian Kubrick during the post UK premiere production for The Shining. Raw camera footage of Japanese journalist Junichi Yaoi visiting Elstree Studios in London and going on tour with Julian Senior from Warner Bros.
1980 (October 2 was the premiere day in the UK and this is just after that date. There are cinema marquees at the end showing that The Shining is now running)
The footage is in the public domain and can be obtained from archive.org.
Wendy Theory 2.0 - A Complete Analysis of Stanley Kubricks The Shining:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ZKqbxMES3-44TdD6tPoQEBZ4LBwScML&si=IHhrAfNIctebjlGV
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro / Drive from central London to EMI Elstree Studios (Borehamwood) [no audio]
04:14 Arrival at EMI Elstree Studios [no audio]
05:41 EMI Elstree Studios lobby [audio starts here]
07:07 Meeting with Julian Senior (Warner Brothers)
12:16 Tour of studio sound stages with Julian Senior, details of production
18:30 Back to the production offices - details of scenes shot there
23:00 Meeting with Vivian Kubrick, discussing her Shining documentary
27:20 Vivian Kubrick shows Junichi Yaoi the Kubrick equipment room
31:50 Stanley Kubricks equipment the famous Zeiss f/0.7 NASA lens.
34:00 Stanley Kubrick working archive
36:15 2001: A Space Odyssey related material (back projection slides)
38:04 Stanley Kubricks office
41:40 Vivian Kubrick interview at edit table
45:24 Telephone interview with Stanley Kubrick
55:45 Interview with Vivian Kubrick
1:15:26 EMI Elstree studios exteriors [no audio]
1:16:35 Outtro / drive back to London, central London and Soho [no audio]
1:22:57 ABC Cinema Shaftesbury Avenue (The Shining posters & marquee) [audio]
Junichi Yaoi visited Stanley Kubricks offices at EMI Elstree Studios to investigate reports of paranormal activity on the set there were several accidents and a major fire during production which were prominently reported by the media at the time. This raw footage was likely shot for an unreleased/unaired Japanese paranormal TV documentary
The unedited footage came from original production master VHS tapes in the personal collection of famed ufologist Wendelle C. Stevens, who was apparently involved in this production. (The footage was originally shot to Sony KCS20 U-matic Cartridges and then mastered to VHS)
The video opens with the journey from London to EMI Elstree Studios, including arrival at studio reception. Junichi Yaoi is given a tour of EMI Elstree Studios by Julian Senior (Vice President of Advertising & Publicity for Warner Brothers/ Europe), they discuss production on the Shining, Kubricks innovative TV teaser spots.
This is followed by a meeting with Vivian Kubrick who discusses her documentary, anecdotes of production on The Shining and her father, further tours of the post-production offices. A tour is given by Vivian of the Kubrick equipment room including discussing and handling Stanley Kubricks Zeiss Planar f/0.7 converted NASA lens from Barry Lyndon, Shelley Duvalls costumes, props and equipment from previous films.
This seems to be Kubricks working archive, after this we also see Stanley Kubricks personal office. Junichi Yaoi conducts a telephone interview with Stanley Kubrick - Kubrick is allegedly away from the office overseeing foreign language prints of the film (it has been said by those present that day that he did not want to appear on camera and was actually in another office at Elstree).
This is followed by an in-depth interview with Vivian Kubrick. We get final glimpses of exteriors at EMI Elstree, then the journey back to central London and final views of the ABC Cinema Shaftesbury Avenue (now the Odeon Covent Garden) with a Shining marquee.
Junichi Yaoi (b.1935 is a director/producer, TV personality and writer well known in Japan for his explorations of the paranormal, he worked for Nippon Television Network in the 60s, 70s and 80s producing many shows for them on the topic. He is widely credited with popularising UFOs in Japan). The Shining - Stanley Kubrick interview 1980 just after UK premiere](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x3_BecWN-do/mqdefault.jpg)