Ken Adam

Christopher Frayling has written an excellent new book about Ken Adam, who worked as a designer for Kubrick on Dr Strangelove and Barry Lyndon.

The book really is fantastic. There are photos of Kubrick taken by Adam, and photos of Adam taken by Kubrick. Amazingly, Adam says that "a few years ago" he was taken to the British Film Institute archive in London where he watched the custard-pie-fight epilogue from Dr Strangelove! This sequence, which Kubrick removed from the film at the last minute, has always been considered lost or destroyed, though Frayling's book appears to confirm for the first time ever that the scene still exists on film.

Incidentally, the title of this book is not completely clear. The front cover and spine call it Ken Adam: The Art Of Production Design, but inside it's titled Ken Adam & The Art Of Production Design.