| Description | The file contains material related to the design of advertisements (print ads, posters, and other promotional material) for The Shining. Box 4 includes conceptual sketches from Saul Bass and correspondence between him and Kubrick; colour transparencies and proposed advertisement designs for various countries such as Japan, Portugal and Norway. It also includes preliminary designs by Bob Gusti [illustrator], and letter from Kubrick.
Countries represented: Finland, Italy, Japan, Latin America (country not given), Norway, Portugal, Spain, United States.
Box 5 contains advertising material (posters and advert layouts) for Japan, Norway, Finland and Germany, and Portugal, Italy and Spain. Layout material, including line and column details for US advertising campaigns 1 (pre release), campaign 2 (small ads) and campaign 3 (review excerpt ads), a newspaper mock up of advert sizes, and a collection of line and column sized ads as per requirements of different US newspapers. Promotional posters of various sizes, some according to language, and some in English. Also included is a file containing two photocopies of annotated poster proofs. |