EYE SCREAM SITE MAP

Welcome to the Eye Scream site map. If you’re here to better understand The Shining, start at the top, and scroll until you find the section you’re looking for.

If you’re here to better understand Kubrick’s other films (as discussed in my videos Mass Mirror (coming soon) and Mourning Creation (coming soon)) click here to be taken down to the directory for everything but Eyes Wide Shut, and click here to be taken down to the Eyes Wide Shut section. If you are reading this sentence, it means the non-Shining sections are still under construction, but hopefully not for too much longer.

EYE SCREAM GLOSSARY

LEAVE A TRAIL OF BREADCRUMBS: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THIS SITE

A brief overview of the major theories. If you’ve seen my intro documentary Eye Scream, you’ve basically read this section.

THE ANNOTATED SHINING: COMPARING KING AND KUBRICK

An exploration of which of Kubrick’s techniques and buried meanings were derived from King’s novel.

THROUGH THE MIRRORFORM AND WHAT STANLEY FOUND THERE, PART I

A moment-by-moment analysis of all the meaning that can be derived by observing the film forwards and backwards simultaneously.

THROUGH THE MIRRORFORM AND WHAT STANLEY FOUND THERE, PART II

Looking at large-scale synchronicities that emerge out of the mirrorform.

REDRUM ROAD

Synchronizing The Shining and Abbey Road by the Beatles.

THE RUM AND THE RED, AND THE TWICE-FOLDED SHINING

Synchronizing The Shining and an album that appears in the background of the film: Stomu Yamashta’s One By One.

COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW, OVER ME: A GUIDE TO ALL THE SHINING’S BURIED ART

A database of all the paintings, literature, film, music, cultural references, and games that appear in the background of various shots. Indented items are ones that haven’t been properly identified yet.

VISUAL ARTS

Special: Unidentified Pieces
Special: The Art of the Lobby

The Solemn Land (JEH MacDonald, 1921)
Log Hut on the St. Maurice (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1862)
- Mystery Silhouette (Lobby Foyer–possibly by Salvador Dali)
The Tower of Babel (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563)
Northern River (Tom Thompson, 1914-15)
Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (F. H. Varley, 1921)
Red Maple (A. Y. Jackson, 1914)
Navajo/Apache Wall Rugs (5) (Unknown craftsperson, date of origin)
Winter photo of Mt. Hood (Mike Roberts, c. 1960s)
Spring photo of Mt. Hood (Francis Kies, 1960s)
Summer photo of Mt. Hood (Franklin Lee Silkey, 1960s?)
Autumn photo of Mt. Hood (Glenn E. Walthall, 1967?)
The Great Earth Mother (Norval Morrisseau, 1976)
Oskar Political Cartoon Posters (Hans Bierbrauer (AKA Oskar), sometime between 1948-1980; seen in Susie’s office, radio room, snowcat garage)
Le campement du trappeur (AKA Trapper’s Camp) (Clarence Gagnon, 1931)
Cram’s Superior Map of Colorado (George F. Cram, 1915)
Neil the Frog (Sears and Roebuck, 1970s)
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) (Abraham Ortelius, 1570s)
Flock of Loons (or Untitled) (Norval Morrisseau, 196?+)
- Mystery Tunnicliffe painting (Susie’s office, outside 237)
- Mystery Lansdowne painting (Susie’s office)
Napolitano Postcard with Augustus Caesar Statue (????, 1970s?-1st century BCE)
Postcard of Ana Cross/Ralph Cross (????, 1970s?-Medieval times)
- Mystery Banner (Torrance apartment)
One By One (Claude du Boc, Jan. 1975)
One By One (Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind, 1974)
- Mystery Lang Shining banner (Torrance apartment)
Woman and Terrier (Alex Colville, 1963)
December Afternoon (Hugh Monahan, 1969)
- Mystery Monahan (Lobby, 2nd Entrance–might also be by Sir Peter Scott)
Boy and Girl Knitting (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
Horse and Train (Alex Colville, 1954)
- Kaisergebirge, Tirol (Kaiser Mountains, Tyrol)? (Alois Arnegger?, 1900s-1910s?)
- Mystery Horse/Dog painting (Anton Mauve? Frederic Remington?)
Colorado Tourism Posters (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
Paysage d’hiver, Laval (Winter Landscape, Laval) (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1849)
Mist Fantasy, Sand River, Algoma (JEH MacDonald, 1920)
The Ahwahnee Hotel (1927, Gilbert Stanley Underwood, Yosemite Valley, California) – interiors used as basis for the Overlook
Great Lounge, stained glass windows (Jeanette Dryer Spencer, 1927)
Bog oak art piece (Untold thousands of years old)
Hound in Field (Alex Colville, 1958)
- Irish Setter (Dr. Avery Vaughan, 1978?)
Tatânga Mânî (Walking Buffalo, AKA George McLean) (Dorothy Oxborough?, Mar. 20, 1871-Dec. 26 1967)
- Jackson Hole Poster?
- Denver Olympics Poster (Gene Hoffman – 1976 — uncertain, but very likely)
- Mystery Group of Seven Trio (Games Room)
SKI BROaDMOOR (Herbert Bayer, 1969)
Steamboat Ski Poster (Jerry Brimacomb, 1973)
Similar: Vail Last Run Original Ski Poster (David Runyon, 1970-1979)
- Mystery Denver Flood Poster (Games Room, 1912?)
The Cowboy (Frederic Remington, 1902)
National Western Stock Show & Rodeo – Denver Post Ad (197?)
- Steamboat Springs Promotional Poster?
Dorothy Oxborough (1922)
Crying Boy (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
Native American Girl Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
Native Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
Native Girl with Pigtails (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
Native Pastel (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
Touch of Autumn (Gerard Curtis Delano, c. 1930)
- Similar: Dancing Bears (William Holbrook Beard)
- Colorado Landscape on a Wood Section (Franklyn Popham Cattermole)
- Mystery Suite 3 art (4) (Unknown Artist, dates of origin)
Valentine’s Postcard of Niagara Falls (1907-1915)
Maid of the Mist Under the Horseshoe Falls Postcard (1959)
- Mystery Kitchen Art (Kitchen)
Cooper’s Hawk (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1974)
Glaucous-Winged Gull (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1973)
After the Bath (Paul Peel, 1890)
Antique Navajo Weaving Design: Yei Pictorial (Unknown, 1940s-’50s)
A Woman of Oonalashka (John Webber, 1784)
A Man of Nootka Sound (John Webber, 1784)
A Woman of Prince William Sound (John Webber, 1778)
- Mystery Megargee-style Hare (near 237)
- English Springer Spaniel (Edwin Megargee, 1940s-50s) – uncertain but extremely likely variant on confirmed original
The Battle of Sisters Creek/Longue Pointe/The Battle of the Barn (Louise-Amélie Panet-Bercy, 1839)
A Man of Van Diemen’s Land (John Webber, 1777)
Mt. Hood postcard (Francis Kies, 1960s)
- B&W Face Collage (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
Anonymous Hood River Valley Postcard (1960s)
Starlight: Indian Papoose (Nicholas de Grandmaison, 1931-1978)
Chief Bear Paw (Nicholas de Grandmaison, 1931-1978)
Montreal from the Mountain (William Henry Bartlett, 1839-1842)
Dog, Boy, and St. John River (Alex Colville, 1958)
- Jacob’s Ladder lookalike art (William Blake, 1805?)
- Mystery Boiler Room Nudes (8) (Boiler Room)
Supernatural Dream (The Old School Inc., 1973)
Commoners Crown, Steeleye Span (1975)
Still Life of Flowers in a Jug (“after” Nadia Benois, 1920s-1950s?)
- Mystery Vesuvius Painting (Unknown artist, date of origin)
Mandarin Ducks (Basil Ede, 1958-1979)
Fox Resting (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
Portrait of a Fox: Alert (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
Baby Leopard on a Rock (Ralph Thompson, 1970s)
Turdus Pilaris (John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, 1837)
Pyrrhula Vulgaris (John Gould and Henry Constantie Richter, 1837)
Blackbird (John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter, 1862-1873(?))
Alcedo Ispida (John Gould, William Matthew Hart, 1862-1873)
- Mystery 237 artworks (3) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1774 (Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1774(?))
- Similar: Bay of Islands (Franklin Carmichael)
- Similar: Brittany Spaniel (Robert Abbett)
- Similar: Dachshund sketch (Charles Tunnicliffe)
Makah Returning in Their War Canoes (Paul Kane, 1845-1859)
Maligne Lake, Jasper Park (Lawren Harris, 1924)
- Similar: Baie St. Paul (AY Jackson)
- Irene Reid Promotional Picture (1975?)
- Similar: Kildeer Plovers (JF Lansdowne)
- Mystery BJ Well Art (4) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
Mill on the Cliff/Cliffside Mill (Nicholas Hornyansky, 1930s-1950s)
- Similar: Mont St. Michel (Emmanuel Lanyer)
- Similar: Derwentwater (Roland Stead)
Moon and Cow (Alex Colville, 1963)
The Johnson House, Hanover (Carl Schaefer, 1932-42)
- Similar: Study of a Girl’s Head (Thomas Eakins)
- Similar: Broughton Island (Doris McCarthy)
Unidentified Vesuvius painting (Unknown Artist, 1890s)
Muskox Illustration (Elizabeth McClelland, 1970s?)
Beaver Swamp – originally Evening, Algoma (Lawren Harris, 1920-1923)
Arpeggio (Frederick Horsman Varley, 1932-1937)

Special: Unrecognizable Art
Special: The Overlook Wall Rugs
Special: Alex Colville (Aug. 24, 1920)
Special: The Group of Seven (1920-1933) – group of Canadian painters whose work figures largely

Literature

Scientific American (Mar. 1978)
Burda Moden (Apr. 1978)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, Nov. 10, 1961)
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger, July 16, 1951 – serial ‘45-‘46)
Hotel & Motel Red Book (American Hotel & Motel Association, 1973?)
Travel (Ullman’s desk – uncertain origin)
Snow White (Dec. 20, 1812)
Mystery Golf Like the Greats Towel/Paper (Boulder Kitchen)
Snoopy (October 4, 1950)
Good News Bible
Teeny Weeny Adventures (1973 – possibly earlier as well)
Gingerbread Men (16^th Century (c. 1558) – Later, May 1875)
Special: The Torrance-Hallorann Shared Library
The Door (Mary Roberts Reinhart, 1930)
The Denver Post (1892)
The Vela Incident, news article (Sept. 23, 1979)
The New York Review of Books (February 1, 1963)
Ada, Countess of Lovelace (Doris Langley Moore, 1977)
Black Odyssey (Nathan Irvin Huggins, Jan. 1, 1977)
A Captive of Time (Olga Ivanskaya, 1978)
China and America: The Search for a New Relationship (William J. Barnds (ed), Aug. 1, 1977)
China, Oil, and Asia, Conflict Ahead? (Selig S. Harrison, Jan 1, 1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, Leslie Waller, Jan. 1, 1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Nov. 16, 1977)
The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage, and Royalty 1400-1800 (AG Dickens, Jan. 1, 1977)
Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter (Jan. 1st, James Wooten)
The Death of Woman Wang (Jonathan Spence, 1978)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison (Michel Foucault, 1975)
Eleanor Marx (Yvonne Kapp, Jun. 1977)
Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography (Stanley Weintraub, 1978)
The Great Spectacular (Graham Greene, Jan. 26, 1978)
The Hynek UFO Report (Dec. 1977)
Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag, 1978)
James at an Awkward Age (Veronica Geng, May 18, 1978)
Leon Battista Alberti (Franco Borsi, 1978)
The Long Work of Liberty (George Konrad, Jan. 26, 1978)
Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
The Mythical Life of D. H. Lawrence (Stephen Spender, Jan. 26, 1978)
New York Jew (Alfred Kazin, 1978)
The Professors: A Survey of a Survey (Serge Lang, May 18, 1978)
Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920 (Marvin Lyons, 1978)
The State of the Union (Sheldon S. Wolin, May 18, 1978)
A Time of Gifts (Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1977)
Tolstoy Remembered (Tatyana Tolstoy, 1975)
Transatlantic Blues (Wilfrid Sheed, 1978)
True Confessions (John Gregory Dunne, 1977)
The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 (Daniel F. Calhoun, Jul. 8, 1976)
Why Israel Should Settle Now (Guido Goldman, May 18, 1978)
Will I Be On Television? (Ladislav Hejdanek, May 18, 1978)
My Name Is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok, Mar. 12, 1972)
Holding On (Mervyn Jones, Jan. 1, 1973)
The Tower (Richard Martin Stern, 1973)
Mystery Europe Book (Boulder Apartment, Miami Apartment)
Trapeze (May 30, 1956 – Possibly a stretch)
In This House of Brede (Rumer Godden, Jan. 1, 1969)
Angell, Pearl and Little God (Winston Graham (Jan. 1, 1970)
Caesar: A Biography (Christian Meier, 1969)
Charles Dickens (Feb. 7, 1812)
The Chimes (December 16th, 1844)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, December 19th, 1843)
The Cricket on the Hearth (December 20, 1845)
The Wish Child (Ina Seidel, 1930)
The Manipulator (Diane Cilento, 1967)
No End to the Way (Neville Jackson, 1965)
Dr. Nyet (Ted Mark, 1966)
Tiger of the Snows (Tenzing Norgay and John Ramsey Ullman, 1955)
Young Jethro (Roy Clews, Jan. 28, 1977)
Squaresville: The Teen’s Guide to Adult Behaviour, Jan and Stan Berenstain (1965)
The Fourth Ghost Book, James Turner (ed) (1968)
The Beach Girls, John D. Macdonald (1959)
The Death Dealers (Mickey Spillane, 1966)
King Oil (Max Catto, Jan. 1, 1970)
China Flight (Pearl S. Buck, April 1945) – Possibly inaccurate
The Boo (Pat Conroy, 1970) – Possibly inaccurate
Orange Wednesday, Leslie Thomas (1967)
- Mystery Boulder Books (4) (Boulder Apartment)
The Deadly Streets, Harlan Ellison (1958 – possibly inaccurate)
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs (1959 — possibly inaccurate)
The Killing Frost (Max Catto, 1950 – possibly a stretch)
Switzerland: The Awful Truth (Jean Zeigler, 1979 – likely inaccurate)
Playgirl (Jan. 1, 1978)
Travel Holiday (1977 – uncertain volume)
Hansel and Gretel (Dec. 20, 1812)
Glamour (Magazine) (Apr. 1939)
Glamour (May, 1978)
Winnie-the-Pooh (February, 1924)
Phonebooks (Probably 1978-79, but not clear)
The White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling, Feb. 4, 1899)
Car and Driver (Mar. 1978)
The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe, May 1842)
Jeeves (1915)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866)
MASH (Richard Hooker, 1968 – fairly certain)
Businessweek (September 1929 — uncertain volume)
Field and Stream (Jan. 1978)
Di-Acro Flier (Unknown date)
Sirens and Lights (Unknown author, date of origin)
Peter Pan (JM Barrie, 1902) – referenced subtextually
Little Red Riding Hood (10th-17th Century)
Outdoor Life (Early 1978)
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy (Appeared in James Howell’s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish, 1659; Maria Edgeworth’s Harry and Lucy Concluded, 1825; Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, 1867; James Joyce’s Araby, 1914; the Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert, 1933; and the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai; Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, 1962)
Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Philip Ardery, 1978)
The Works of William Shakespeare (1589-1614) (Julius Caesar – 1599, possibly also The Tempest – 1610-1611)
Time Magazine
Three Little Pigs (June 19, 1890 – first print version was in the 1840s, fairy tale itself thought to go back further)
- Special: Victoria Holt
- Special: Julius Caesar (Jul. 12-13, 100 BC – Mar. 15, 44 BC)

Film and Television

Bugs Bunny (April 30, 1938) – seen on Danny’s shirt, and stuffed toy seen in lobby — character referenced by multiple characters
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (Sept. 17, 1949)
Stop! Look! And Hasten! (August 14, 1954)
Tom & Jerry (Feb. 10, 1940 – Sept. 8, 1967)
Peanuts
Woodstock (April 4, 1967)
Dopey – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (December 21, 1937)
Mickey and Minnie Mouse (Nov. 18, 1928) – stickers on Danny’s door, and Mickey appears again on a sweater
Carson City (June 13, 1952)
Goofy (May 25, 1932) – doll/puppet seen in Danny’s Boulder bedroom
Emergency! (1972-1979)
Easy Rider (Jul. 14, 1969)
Keep America Beautiful Ad (1971) – referenced (maybe) by signs on the garbage cans outside the Overlook
Tony the Tiger (1952) – food mascot
News Show Wendy Watches (Bertha Lynn)
Julius Erving (Feb. 22, 1950) – seen on poster in Overlook radio room
The Harlem Globetrotters (Sept. 12, 1970)
Dalli! Dalli! (Lobby, unknown episode, 1972-1979)
Brewster McCloud (Dec. 5, 1970)
Summer of ’42 (April 18, 1971)
Newswatch 10 (Glenn Rinker, Ann Bishop and Walter Cronice, 1979-80) – news program watched by Hallorann
To Itch His Own (1958)
Special: TV Symmetry
KHOW (Hal and Charlie, 1964) – radio station, heard by Hallorann
Special: Jack’s Four References
Johnny Carson (Oct. 23, 1925) – referenced by Jack
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Oct. 1, 1962)
The Gold Rush (Jun. 26, 1925 – possibly a stretch)
True Grit (Jun. 11, 1969 – possibly a stretch)
Thriller (Apr. 10, 1973)
Special: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Jun. 29, 1974)

MUSIC

De Natura Sonoris No. 1, Krzysztof Penderecki (April 7, 1966)
De Natura Sonoris No. 2 (Krzysztof Penderecki, December 3, 1971)
Dies Irae, Thomas of Celano, redone by Wendy Carlos (13^th Century, possibly older)
The Dream/Awakening of Jacob (Krzysztof Penderecki, August 14, 1974)
Home (Henry Hall and the Gleneagles, 1932+)
Instant Karma (Plastic Ono Band, Feb. 1970) – album that inspired the film/novel’s name
It’s All Forgotten Now, (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, Sept. 26, 1934)
Kanon (Krzysztof Penderecki, Sept. 21, 1962)
Krzysztof Penderecki (Nov. 23, 1933)
Lontano (György Ligeti, 1967)
Masquerade (Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, Sept. 23 1932)
Midnight, the Stars and You (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, 1934)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Béla Bartók, Sept. 7, 1936)
Polymorphia (Krzysztof Penderecki, April 16, 1962)
Utrenja, Ewangelia and Kanon Paschy (Krzysztof Penderecki, 1970 and 1971)
- Special: Bombo (Al Jolson, et al. 1921)
- Special: One By One (Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind, 1974)

HISTORICAL REFERENCES

Adolf Hitler
Alcoholics Anonymous
Carl Yastrzemski
Christopher Columbus
The Donner Party
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
Portland, Maine
Portland, Oregon
Timberline Lodge
Timbuktu
US Forest Service

TOYS & GAMES

THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES: THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF THE OVERLOOK PHOTOGRAPHS

Jack’s image appears in one of 21 photos on a wall in the lobby at the end of the film. If we assign number values to these photos, a host of other number games emerge.

GOLDEN SPIRALS (FILL YOUR EYES): HOW THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE AFFECTS THE FILM

One of the songs on the soundtrack is theorized to have been composed according to the golden ratio. This caused me to investigate how the film might be 143 minutes long for the same reason.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A STUDY ON PATTERNS, SYMMETRIES AND CYCLES

Kubrick likes to establish aural/visual patterns that play out in a variety of ways, always heightening our sense of the surface-level themes.

ALL HEAVEN AND NO HELL MAKES JACK A LEFT RIGHT

The shots in the film are composed in two different ways: rule-of-thirds shots and phi grid shots. This is a study of each “phi” shot in the film, and how Kubrick assigned symbolic significance to the various components of the phi grid.

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THAT TRICYCLE IS KAFKAESQUE!: Absurdities, Disappearances, and Transformations

Various items in the film will vanish, appear, relocate or transform between shots. Also, there’s many spatial impossibilities suggested about the physical structure of the Overlook Hotel, when comparing shots. Do these absurdities have a net effect?

HERE COMES THE SUNKEN PLACE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE FILM’S HISTORICAL ROOTS AND THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Kubrick invokes mythology and history to investigate why we have the reactions we have to large and small-scale atrocities and the horrors of physical reality.

THE TOWER OF FABLE

Number codes on the food boxes in the kitchen pantry express ID codes from an old way of cataloguing fairy tales, including the ones referenced openly in the dialogue. This helped me to realize the significance of where rooms are located in the Overlook’s blueprints, revealing the building’s layout to be a giant game board.

Part Three: DNA of a Bloodfall

SIMPLE BEAR NECESSITIES: THE MANY ANIMALS OF THE SHINING

Many animals are seen in art objects across the film’s several settings. The major four connect to the indigenous philosophy of the Four Directions, which in turn is used to segment the film’s four main characters (Jack, Wendy, Danny and the Overlook).

SHINE BABIES

Many films and filmmakers since The Shining seem to be reprocessing what Kubrick was saying, in their own unique ways. Here’s a look at just a few standouts.

MASS MIRROR

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Part 1: Eyes Wide Shut
Part 2: Full Metal Jacket
Part 3: Barry Lyndon
Part 4: A Clockwork Orange
Part 5: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Part 6: Dr. Strangelove
Part 7: Lolita

MOURNING CREATION

This section of the website (dealing with my discoveries about the secret codes at the heart of Eyes Wide Shut) is under construction, and will become available as soon as the video for it appears on my YouTube channel. Head there now and subscribe to become notified as soon as this section becomes available.

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