
Great Britain’s Channel 4 has painstakingly recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece “The Shining”, complete with look-a-likes of the crew and cast members including Shelley Duvall, for a TV ad to promote a season of the director’s films.
The 65-second promotional spot has been filmed as a one-take tracking shot through the recreation of “The Shining” set. Click here to revisit the Overlook Hotel.
In related Kubrick news, Typographica has an article on Kubrick’s favorite font, Futura. The font, which Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of “Eyes Wide Shut” and “2001″, is said to have been one of the master filmmaker’s favorite typefaces. The article quotes from an original story published at The Guardian.

