Q: Where is the hotel used in The Shining located?
A: There is no actual hotel that was used for the filming. The helicoptor shots at the beginning of the movie are of the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon. The interior shots were soundstages built on the backlot of EMI's Elstree Studios in England. Some of the interiors were modeled after actual hotels (such as the Ahwanee Hotel in Yosemite National Park), but no "real hotel was used in the film aside from the Timberline.Q: Was there a soundtrack released for The Shining?
A: Yes. Warner Brothers released an Lp soundtrack after the film was released but it was pulled from their catalog a short time later.
Q: How did you obtain all of the music?
A: I originally bought a copy of the original soundtrack Lp in the 1980s. After realizing that much of the soundtrack wasn't included, at some point in the 1990s I called Warner Bros and spoke with someone in the film soundtrack department. Likely by sheer luck, the guy I spoke with was able to pull the film's audio cue sheets and he read off all of the song titles that he could locate. From there, it took several years of contacting record stores, comparing versions of the individual songs, and again...a lot of luck. These were the days before the internet, so it was much more difficult to locate everything.
Q: Why hasn't Warner Bros released
the soundtrack on cd?
A: I have no firm answer as to why the soundtrack isn't available. Possible reasons are that Warner Bros never had authorization to use certain songs when the original Lp was released. Another reason I've been told is that WB paid very large royalties in order to use a certain song(s), so they may have eventually decided that the cost was not worth keeping it available.
Q: I have heard of a CD of the soundtrack. How can I buy it?
A: Any CDs you see are bootlegs, in other words they are not legally produced recordings. Some are a direct transfer from the original Warner Bros soundtrack Lp (you can hear an occasional pop & crackle on the cd) that is missing many of the songs. There are also illegal expanded CDs with the complete soundtrack. In the 1990s,I put together a personal complete soundtrack and gave a few copies to friends who were also huge fans of the film. At least one of these friends made a copy that quickly spread among collectors around the world who, many of which have & continue to illegally sell. To reiterate, WB has never re-released the soundtrack so ANY CD you may find is a bootleg! Q: Whatever happened to Danny
Lloyd?
A: Danny retired from acting soon after The Shining and he became a professor at the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in 2004.