Stanley Kubrick - More Posters & Photos » Stanley Kubrick was
one of the great film directors of our time. His continuing
influence on motion pictures is profound. But Stanley was as
unknown as his films were known and we hope our documentary
redresses that balance. Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26,
1928 in New York City and grew up in the Bronx where his father
was a physician. When he was just 16 and in high school, Kubrick
shot a photograph of a news vendor the day after President
Franklin D. Roosevelt died and submitted it to Look magazine.
Look printed the photo and soon hired him (at 17) as their
youngest ever staff photographer. After creating a photo essay
on boxer Walter Cartier for Look, Kubrick used his savings to
make an impressive, gritty 16-minute documentary film, Day of
the Fight (1950), based on the essay. Two other documentaries --
Flying Padre and The Seafarers -- followed before he made his
first feature film, Fear and Desire in 1953. The movie about a
fictitious war was directed, produ