TheStanley Kubrick Archive is held by theUniversity of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collection Centre at theLondon College of Communication.[1]
The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film directorStanley Kubrick (1928–1999).[2] It was transferred from his home in 2007 through a gift by his family.[citation needed] It contains much of Kubrick's working material that was accumulated during his lifetime.
The collection spans Kubrick's career as a photographer forLook and as a film director. His films are:Fear and Desire,Killer's Kiss,The Killing,Paths of Glory,Spartacus,Lolita,Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,2001: A Space Odyssey,A Clockwork Orange,Barry Lyndon,The Shining,Full Metal Jacket andEyes Wide Shut. Kubrick also planned to make a number of other films; two in particular were abandoned just before production,Napoleon andThe Aryan Papers. He also played an important role in the conception ofAI: Artificial Intelligence, although it was completed after his death bySteven Spielberg.
The collection held by the university is made up of a range of material including props, scripts, research, production paperwork such as call sheets, costumes and photographs for all his films and Look, as well as material for those projects that were conceived but never visualised. By maintaining a high degree of control in the film making process, Kubrick was able to retain material generated by his pioneering techniques, research and production work: arguably making this collection one of the most complete examples of film making practice worldwide.[3]
The archive, prior to its donation to the university, is the subject of the documentaryStanley Kubrick's Boxes byJon Ronson.[citation needed]
An internationally touring Stanley Kubrick exhibition (select dates between 2004-2023) included objects from the archive.[4]
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