Making 'The Shining'

Stanley Kubrick allowed his then 17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of The Shining. Created originally for the BBC television show Arena, this documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film.

The Seafarers (Stanley Kubrick, 1953)

The Seafarers (1953) - Part 1

The Seafarers (1953) - Part 2

Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color. Lost for over 40 years! The documentary extolls the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Although often referred to as a "documentary", this is actually a promotional film, made for the Seafarers International Union.

Flying Padre (Stanley Kubrick, 1951)

After Kubrick sold his first short film, the self-financed Day of the Fight, to RKO in 1951, the company advanced the 23-year-old filmmaker money to make a documentary short for their Pathe Screenliner series. Flying Padre was the result.

In an interview in 1969, Kubrick referred to Flying Padre as "silly".

Day of the Fight (Stanley Kubrick, 1951)

Day of the Fight is an American short subject documentary film shot in black-and-white and also the first picture directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick financed the film himself, and it is based on his pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled Prizefighter.

Kubrick and Alexander Singer (who acted as assistant director and a cameraman for this film) used daylight-loading Eyemo cameras that take 100-foot spools of 35mm black-and-white film to shoot the fight, with Kubrick shooting hand-held (often from below) and Singer's camera on a tripod.

The film cost Stanley Kubrick $3,900 to make and he sold it to RKO for $4,000.