This is the War Room!

This revelatory 12-minute film, wrought on a shoestring budget, listens in on the late Sir Ken Adam (celebrated for his production design on the early James Bond films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Barry Lyndon among many others), as he manoeuvres about a drawing table much like the one he used to commandeer at London’s Shepperton Studios.
For one last time, at age 93, cigar in hand, the legendary Sir Ken brandishes his Flo-Master, deploying a felt-tip pen as he recreates the designs he conjured for the supposedly nuclear blast-proof conference room, located below the Pentagon, the iconic “War Room” from the climax of 1964’s DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. While drawing, he anatomizes the fundamental spatial metamorphosis that this center of power went through across months of intense collaboration with the film’s director, Stanley Kubrick (http://www.liquid-blues-production.com/pages/directors-note/)