Published on Jun 29, 2018 
 
 Chapters: 
 
 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 Jun'ichi Yaoi "the Kubrick equipment room" 
 
 31:50 Stanley Kubrick's 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 Kubrick's 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] 
 
 
 
 Background : 
 
 Towards the end of post-production on The Shining Jun'ichi Yaoi visited Stanley Kubrick's 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 - 
 
 Jun'ichi Yaoi ( 矢追 純一 ) 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 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, Kubrick's 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 Duvall's costumes, props and equipment from previous films. This seems to be Kubrick's working archive, after this we also see Stanley Kubrick's personal office. 
 
 
 
 Jun'ichi 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. 

 Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in rare video clip 
 
 A rare 1980 clip of Stanley Kubrick talking on the phone about the ending of 2001 has surfaced by way of a Reddit thread. A piece on the Esquire website explains: 
 
 ...In a bizarre video, which has appeared on Reddit this week, the director seems to provide a very simple and clear explanation of the 2001: A Space Odyssey ending. It comes from a Japanese paranormal documentary from TV personality Jun'ichi Yaio made during the filming of The Shining. The documentary was never released, but footage was sold on eBay in 2016 and conveniently appeared online this week timed with the movie's 50th anniversary. 
 
 Here is the transcript of Kubrick's comments: 
 
 I’ve tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I’ll try. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. And he has no sense of time. It just seems to happen as it does in the film. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately so, inaccurate) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn’t quite sure. Just as we’re not quite sure what do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest. 
 
 You can see the entire Japanese Shining documentary here. And read the Reddit thread here. One funny tidbit here is that Kubrick and Yaio are both at London's EMI Studios where the documentary was being filmed. Kubrick didn't want to appear on-screen so he is simply calling from the other room.
– Ever wondered what Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey is all about? Well, keep wondering, but an excerpt from an unreleased Japanese documentary has Kubrick explaining the film's mysterious ending, BoingBoing reports. "I've tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I'll try," the famed director of Dr. Strangelove and The Shining tells TV personality Jun'ichi Yaio in a phone call. "The idea was supposed to be that [the astronaut played by actor Keir Dullea] is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. And he has no sense of time." After discussing the "deliberately" inaccurate French architecture of the room in the closing scene, Kubrick says that "when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest." The footage, posted online late last month, was bought on eBay in 2016 and appeared in time for the film's 50th anniversary, Esquire reports. (See the newly released 70mm trailer of the film here or the full documentary, mostly about making The Shining, here.)