Dr. Strangelove 8x10 Still Picture Stanley Kubrick 4

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8x10 inch Glossy B&W StillFrom the 1964 Comedy/Thriller movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Glossy B&W still of Stanley Kubrick and famous Photographer Weegie on the set of Dr. Strangelove. Shot during the filming of the 1964 classic. Not an original. Actual 8x10. Considered one of the greatest comedy thriller films of all time Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The photo has very minor handling/surface/edge wear. I will insure that this still is handled with care. It has been kept in a smoke free environment. This item will be mailed in an aircell or padded envelope with a cardboard stiffener. Dr. Strangelove and Stanley Kubrick collectors will enjoy adding this to their collection. Sets and Filming: Dr. Strangelove was filmed at Shepperton Studios, in London, as Peter Sellers was in the middle of a divorce at the time and, thus, unable to leave England. The sets occupied three main sound stages: the Pentagon War Room, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber and the last one containing both the motel room and General Ripper's office and outside corridor. The studio's buildings were also used as the military airport's exterior. The film's set design was done by Ken Adam, the famous production designer of several James Bond films (at the time, he had already worked on Dr. No). The black and white cinematography was by Gilbert Taylor, and the film was edited by Anthony Harvey and Stanley Kubrick (uncredited).For the War Room Ken Adam first designed a two level set which Kubrick initially liked, only to decide later that it was not what he wanted. Adam next began work on the design that was used in the film, an expressionistic set that was compared with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It was an enormous concrete room (130 feet long and 100 feet wide, with a 35-foot high ceiling suggesting a bomb shelter, with a triangular shape (based on Kubrick's idea that this particular shape would prove the most resistent against an explosion). One side of the room was covered with gigantic strategic maps reflecting in a shiny black floor inspired by the dance scenes in old Fred Astaire films. In the middle of the room t was a large circular table lighted from above by a circle of lamps, suggesting a poker table. Kubrick insisted that the table be covered with green baize (although this could not be seen in the black and white film) to reinforce the actors' impression that they are playing "a game of poker for the fate of the world." Kubrick asked Adam to build the set ceiling in concrete to force the director of photography to use for filming only the on-set lights from the circle of lamps. Moreover, each lamp in the circle of lights was carefully placed and tested until Kubrick was happy with the result.Lacking cooperation from The Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52, and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state of the art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off limits to the film crew. When some American Air Force personnel were invited to view the reconstructed B-52 cockpit, they said that "it was absolutely correct, even to the little black box which was the CRM." It was so accurate that Kubrick was concerned whether Ken Adam's production design team had done all of their research legally, fearing a possible investigation by the FBI.In several shots of the B-52 flying over the polar ice en route to Russia, the shadow of the actual camera plane, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, is visible on the snow below. The B-52 was a model composited into the arctic footage which was sped up to create a sense of jet speed. The camera ship, a former USAAF B-17G-100-VE, serial 44-85643, registered F-BEEA, had been one of four Flying Forts purchased from salvage at Altus, Oklahoma in December 1947 by the Fr... read more

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