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Card File Cabinet at the Stanley Kubrick Exhibit

Stanley Kubrick wanted to make the most intricately detailed film on Napoleon ever. One way of keeping track of all of the details was by setting up this filing cabinet. According to the notes provided at the exhibit:

 

"Beginning in June 1968, Kubrick, with the help of historians and his assistants, compiled dossiers on all the important people in Napoleon's life. From that research emerged a comprehensive card index, which he used to foreground his screenplay so that it was as historically accurate as possible. This index describes Napoleon's life in detail: where he stayed, the people he corresponded with, his eating habits, the weather conditions during a particular battle." More in the next photo.

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Uploaded on August 8, 2013
Taken on May 25, 2013