We have a brief glimpse outside of the hall which is staged to look like that of Luton Hoo but is not. And, besides, the Lanesborough does not, as far as I can tell, appear to have a corner room that faces out on two close set neighboring buildings from which such windows could be viewed as observed in the shots from the pool room. If one takes a look at the Lanesborough's surroundings in Googlemaps, there is one but building which could possibly provide a view of a building with close windows. However there are key differences between a billiards table and a pool table, and knowing the difference is important while you shop for the right one for you. This table is used for carom billiards and snooker, but a proper game of pool cannot be played on a traditional billiards table. To be fair, from how the game is portrayed in the media and pool tables being a familiar fixture in bars and restaurants, you can hardly blame anyone for melding the two together. Failure to make contact with a red ball constitutes a foul, which results in penalty points being awarded to the opponent.
Pocketing the 1 ball scores 1 point.Pocketing the 2 ball scores 2 points.Caroming the cue ball off both object balls scores 1 point.- check Caroming the cue ball off one or both object balls and then into the bottle knocking it onto its side scores 5 points.- check Caroming the cue ball off one or both object balls and then into the bottle knocking onto its base results in an automatic win. The player must then play away from that ball without moving it or else the player will concede penalty points. This refers to the speed at which balls will travel on the surface after being struck. Until the revealing of Victor's pool room, the Nathanson household had stood out as being curiously unconnected to other locations in the film. It is one of those Kubrick rooms that is impossible, and Kubrick even presents the impossible room as being in two different locations in the apartment. As noted above, I've repeatedly read that the billiards scene was filmed in the Royal Suite of the Lanesborough Hotel (once a hospital) in London, the Royal Suite being so exclusive that it's located in a secret location in the hotel that isn't even known but to a few of the hotel's employees.
I've never seen the location of the Nathanson shoot discussed, and if people have been able to pinpoint the billiard room scene as being the Royal Suite at the Lanesborough, I'm assuming that if the Nathanson shoot was there as well then this would also be known. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This can't be so as the Royal Suite was said to have been booked only 10 days and we have a number of scenes in Alice and Bill's bedroom: the long conversation with Alice and Bill in the bedroom when they're high; the dressing room scenes; the scene after the initial party at Victor's; the long scene when Bill comes home from the "orgy"; the scene when he returns home from this last discussion with Victor. But perhaps this bit of lore exists for a reason as it ties Bill and Alice's bedroom with Victor's home and with the Nathanson home. IMDB has the lore this pool room scene took three weeks to shoot, what is billiards but the 1998 Guardian article states that the Royal Suite was booked for 10 days.
But the style of windows of the above building--one pane of glass--doesn't match any of those viewed out the two windows in the supposed corner room of the supposed Lanesborough Royal Suite room used for a pool room. The Royal Suite of the Lanesborough reputedly has floor to ceiling windows facing Buckingham Gardens. I've seen two photos reputedly of the Lanesborough Royal Suite, one a sitting room and the other a bedroom (I've yet to see anything remotely similar to the pool room in Eyes Wide Shut) and both have floor to ceiling windows, which Victor's pool room does not. This leads me to think that Kubrick didn't like what was shot during those 10 days at the Royal Suite, that a set was built for the billiards room, and that woodwork from that set was also used for the Nathanson apartment. Most pool table lighting needs to be hardwired into your ceiling, which means that you probably can’t set up your system by yourself. In pool/billiards, "to rack" means to set up the game by placing the balls into the triangle frame. Cue balls like this are very effective teachers. Also, if the cue ball comes into contact with an object ball in a full pocket, it is also considered a scratch.
