Posted by Vincent at bg-tc-ppp787.monmouth.com on February 06, 2002 at 14:38:32:
In Reply to: my guess is... posted by sean on February 06, 2002 at 11:07:16:
: As it is, Kubrick destroyed the footage. (I believe he did the same for cut things from "The Shining", but I'm not 100% clear on that being destroyed.)
I'm not sure about the footage from DR. STRANGELOVE having been destroyed. I read a report not too long ago about that footage actually having been SCREENED recently in London. Certainly, when Kubrick made STRANGELOVE he didn't have the control that he had when he started making films with Warner Bros., so I'm not sure that he could have destroyed that footage if he wanted to.
And yes, according to an interview Leon Vitali gave around the time of the release of the "new" Kubrick collection, Kubrick had all of the outtakes from his films that were in his possession (I'd imagine this consisted of all the Warner Bros. films outtakes, and possibly 2001) taken to a dump and burned two years before he died. I think this is a travesty myself- years from now, that material could have been an incredible insight into how the man worked (much as work in progress manuscripts of great literary works are studied by scholars today).
Vincent