Where was The Shining edited?
Gordon Stainforth writes: “Even within the studio Stanley was very secretive. He didn’t want the film to be cut in the normal cutting rooms, but wanted everything (except the production offices at the front of the studio) to be under one roof, including his office. Also, as I have said elsewhere, for a short time, one big room in this warehouse was used as an archive. It was absolutely stuffed full of props and memorabilia, dating right back to 2001. I know because I was once sent there to retrieve something. It was all very secret and heavily padlocked. I think in about the summer of 1980 it was all moved to Childwickbury, so I guess that’s where it all still is. This ‘cutting room block’ at Elstree was used for cutting the main picture between about April- August 1979, and then we all moved to Childwickbury until about the end of April 1980, the Elstree ‘cutting room block’, as we called it, being the Elstree base for the film, and also where all the out-takes/’spares’ were stored. W
