How did Kubrick do the shot where Jack looks down at a model maze to see Wendy and Danny walking in it?
Stephen Pickard who worked as one of the assistant editors on the film wrote. “When Ray Lovejoy, the editor, first introduced me to Stanley he was shooting the insert on the hedge maze. It was a large miniature which stood upright and the live action of Wendy and Danny was a VistaVision plate. The 35mm 4-perf camera shutter speed was synchronised with the VV projector shutter, similar to a traditional rear-projection set-up.” 17/ What’s the significance of the maze? The hotel maze suggests a number of mythological and psychological associations prompted by mazes and labyrinths. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth of Crete was a dungeon of inter-connecting maze-like tunnels derived from the elaborate floor plan of the Palace at Knossos. In the myth, the architect of the Labyrinth was the Athenian craftsman Daedalus, who designed it for King Minos. The Labyrinth was so skilfully designed that once a person was incarcerated there it was impossible for them to find their way out again. They
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