What is the shooting process of Shapin?

The filming of sharping people is difficult and long. Because Kubrick was methodical, it took more than a year to finish the main shooting.

The film was shot in EMI Elstree Studio in Boldwood, England. The hotel set in the film is the largest set built at that time, including a full set of internal and external scenes of the hotel. Some exterior scenes were taken from Timberline Lodge Hotel in Mount Hood, Oregon, and some interior scenes were based on Awany Hotel in Yosemite National Park. In order to avoid the bad influence of the film on Room 2 17, Timberline Lodge asked Kubrick to change the dangerous Room 2 17 into Room 237. Kubrick used the camera stabilizer for the first time because he had to shuttle through the scenery of the hotel.

The opening panorama and the scene of Volkswagen Beetle heading for the hotel were taken by helicopter over Xiangyang Avenue in Montana Glacier National Park. Kubrick allowed his daughter Vivian Kubrick, who was only 17 years old at that time, to make a documentary about sharping. This documentary, originally produced for BBC TV program Arena, shows Kubrick's shooting process with rare insight.