How did Stanley Kubrick finance Fear and Desire?

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American director Stanley Kubrick — Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick during the filming of *Barry Lyndon* (1975).

Stanley Kubrick financed his first fiction feature, the ultralow-budget war film Fear and Desire (1953), by persuading his father and uncle to provide the necessary funding for the production.1