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UK's Channel 4 is doing a Stanley Kubrick season showcasing the great director's masterpieces, and to celebrate his work they've commissioned this seriously impressive promo for the program that's 65 seconds of a tracking shot mimicking the legendary director's POV as he walks through the set of The Shining.

The set has been painstakingly recreated by Channel 4, complete with lookalikes for both cast and crew (which the average viewer wouldn't have any idea what they looked like, anyway). Some bits of info:

The promo, filmed as a single tracking shot with a cast of 55 actors, was meticulously researched to "remain as faithful as possible to the period in which it was shot and the culture of the British studio in the late 1970s".

Channel 4 Creative Services, the broadcaster's in-house creative resource, cast people who resembled Kubrick's own crew including his script lady, assistant director and director of production, John Alcott, who also worked on films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange with the director.

Look-a-likes were also found for Duvall, Danny Lloyd, who played Danny Torrance, and the twin girls who appear fleetingly in the film.

Most of the equipment that appears in the promotional clip was actually used in the filming of The Shining.

Many of the props that appear, including the tricycle and Kubrick's script, were produced for the promotional clip based on photos or sketches from the late director's archives.

The spot, which was shot over two days at London's Bray Studios, was filmed using a 25mm Cooke lens -- a favourite of Kubrick's.

Was all that necessary? No, but it is AWESOME.

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