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Brown was using a mounted camera that had the then-revolutionary ability to wirelessly transmit filmed footage to a monitor for the director to review. But Kubrick was worried that the local rich people who lived in the hills around the set would pick up the transmissions on their TV antennas and ... we don't know, leak the plot of a movie that was already a bestselling novel? Whatever Kubrick's concerns were, Brown mocked them ruthlessly, all while imitating a rich old lady saying things like "Ooh, poor Mr. Brown -- Stanley's being very cruel to him today."

As Kubrick started to get worried, Brown played it straight, reassuring him that their signals couldn't escape the studio. But Kubrick had heard Brown's fake signals, and that led to the pair having long arguments about how antennas work. Brown took a monitor around outside and discovered that Kubrick was right -- their signals were leaking. Not that anybody had noticed or cared. So Brown memorized the places outdoors where the signal failed, then took Kubrick to all of them to "prove" that he was right.

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"Actually, Stanley, there is one place in the deepest part of the maze that I'm worried about ..."

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Brown also discovered that Danny Lloyd (the kid who played, uh ... Danny) weighed exactly the same as the camera, so he did what he was practically obligated to do: He removed his camera from the mechanical arm, replaced it with a sling, then stuck Danny in the sling and flew him around. We've already discussed how Lloyd had no idea he was filming a horror movie at the time. And now, coupled with these fun flights of fancy, everything that's NOT The Shining must have been downright traumatic for the poor little guy.