The Underview STANLEY KUBRICK WRITES

Only Stanley Kubrick could have said it: "there is very little to making a movie..." Notes to The Underview about an unusual correspondence   People don't believe me when I drop a comment like "well, Stanley Kubrick always said 'the only requirement for making a film is a camera (and optionally a tape recorder)'". (Then) I bring out the letters... Having become a "2001" fanatic prior to the film's release... I struck up a short lived, but interesting correspondence with Stanley Kubrick in 1967 thru 68. I was a bit precocious for the time (14, I believe) and thought nothing of writing to people I read about in the media and asking for, and giving my opinions regarding various topics. I obviously impressed him with a short diatribe on Special Effects... and with the rather amateur production of a pamphlet printed for my High School newspaper regarding the film... the rest is history, as they say (or is it the present?). I had SO much material from the film at one time, but most of it has disappeared I'm sorry to say, excepting these few letters which I prized then and do so now even more. I am attaching JPEG scans that you may add, if you so wish, to your comprehensive web site... My compliments, job well done,   Kent Hendrick 5 January 2000

Many thanks to Kent for sharing these unusual pieces - love that postmark! I have changed Kent's address as shown in the scans - hopefully, the one you see does not exist, and has never done so. Apart from that, and minor tidying up for optimization purposes, the images are untouched.

"The Making of Kubrick's 2001", first published in 1970 and long out of print, remains the most complete record yet printed of the film's creation. Its compiler, Jerome Agel, was a personal friend of the director's. It is said that Stanley Kubrick acquired a number of copies and distributed them, suitably inscribed, to various friends and contacts. Below is an example. I have been unable so far to identify "Marty". The yellowing, rather pulpy paper is, unfortunately, typical of this thirty- year- old book. Items with Stanley Kubrick's signature are not exactly common, and there is considerable variation between some examples, to the extent that while all the ones included in The Underview are offered as genuine, I cannot guarantee that that is the case. As with any autograph of a famous person, if one comes your way you should be very careful about checking its authenticity.

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