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 nineteen-year-old aspiring photographer named Murray Close, who was a schoolmate and boyfriend of Kubrick’s daughter, Anya. 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 still is notable in that it is not a frame seen in the finished film; it’s a frame from an alternate take, and is wider than the similar shot used in the film.
(image courtesy Marc Finkel)
