2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - The Approach - : • 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ...
You're not old, in the least. My dumbass waited too long to finally see this. And now, it's my favorite film ever. It completely changes how I see all science fiction that came after it. My Dad saw it in the theatre, in 1968, and it blew him away. My grandfather saw The Wizard of Oz, in the theatre, in 1939, and he said the entire audience was in shock, when the sepia film turned to complete color!
As one of the people who saw this in the cinema in 1968, it's hard to convey what an impression it made on us all back then. We were really blown away by it. And the image quality was better back then. I mean better than watching it on a computer screen. Not the pixel numbers.
See the film today on the new 4K reissue, on a 65" OLED Samsung screen. Looks as good as when we saw it in CINERAMA, early April of 1968 in Manhattan. It was transformational. I was nearly 7 years old.
I got to see the movie in Cinerama format shortly after its release. Back then, movie theaters were big and plush, and we were seated in the balcony (yes, they had both orchestra seats and balcony seats). The Cinerama curved screen wrapped the action around you so it felt almost three-dimensional. To watch a spaceship moving by, you actually had to turn your head from left to right.
I saw this in Cinerama in Houston in 1968. I was 14 years old and was totally overwhelmed by what I was seeing on the big screen. The visual effects were so far ahead of anything else at that time. I remember Life magazine did a special edition with a lot of great photos. Come to think of it...I think I still have that magazine stored away.@@stevenlitvintchouk3131
Even 70's and 80's SF they have analog control cockpits with many ramps and buttons but this '68's movie have perfect digital cockpit and control panel looks better then 2020 .. Unbelieable!!
@@billolsen4360on a recent airline flight, happened to look into the cockpit and noticed that the control consoles, rather than showing the dials, switches, and lights of my teenage years, were much simpler and had LCD screens. I was immediately struck by the resemblance to the cockpit of this space shuttle in the movie. There are so many screens! In the final part of this clip where the shuttle is being pulled into the underground hanger, you can see windows into different workspaces. They all have giant screens displaying various representations of status data. This vision was quite a departure from any kind of technical control room of the era. Flashing lights and buttons were the norm, whether you are looking at the controls of a nuclear reactor or an ocean liner. But Kubrick consulted with people who studied use your interface design in different industries, as well as people interested in the impact of technology on the future, and their vision always pointed to these types of interfaces. Interfaces that have now become the norm for this new century.
The large screen monitors inside the underground base would not even be possible for another 50 years when this was filmed. Stanley Kubrick must of had a crystal ball of some sort.
JumboTron....hit stadiums in the early 80s. DiamondVision developed late 70s. Fairly ubiquitous only 15 years after this film, from Times Square to the Olympics, civic staduims, to even posh hotel lobbies.
Go study the history of movie effects if is a fascinating study in how to make people suspend their disbelief. But as for this movie: rotoscoping, painted backdrops, and practical effects account for most of what you see here.
Every time I see this movie, I have to remind myself that it was made in 1968….nine years before Star Wars! No CGI. And it still stands the test of time on breathtaking scene quality!
Hans Enfiet- My college student brother and his friend took me, a13 year old kid, to the very first showing downtown 3rd row center balcony. A little of the crowd reaction.... coming out of the theater passing by the 3 hundred or so waiting to get into the 2nd showing, with open mouth and dumbfounded mind numbed zombie faces sliding past the countlessly asked question..."was it good"...we could only, and I am serious here, mumble from our lips. One gentleman looked dead into my eyes and asked and all I could do was nod. I would pay some good money to watch that pristine, 70mm, 3 screen Masterpiece again.
@@u2mister17 It's a little known fact that Star Wars Episode IV featured 40 seconds of CGI. And all because Lucas wasn't satisfied with the effects he got using other methods.
Oh my, all those years ago. My father dropped me off at our local movie theater, with four other people in attendance..and myself. I was enthralled by the spectacle, it was magical. Thank you, Stanley, from that once young person.
@@thegameranch5935 This model was recently discovered. Its 24-inches in diameter. Mobius models makes a fantastic 10-inch diameter model of this. Building it now. It has retractable landing-struts like the mechanized model in the film. A thing of beauty!
For me, this era of science fiction has an aesthetic, a raw beauty and a line of thought that has never been surpassed. Even though many good things were done later, nothing had that "weight", if I can put it that way. This clip alone shows that. I'm not a huge fan of the movie itself, but it's impossible not to be impressed every time.
I’ve seen this movie so many times and just realised this ship landing is a ‘fertilised egg’ being delivered to the moon - just as the initial ship entering the floating space station can be seen to symbolise a sperm entering the cell. The necessary precursors to the final ‘birth’ of the star child.
Since the initial ship emerges out of the image of the broken bone, the rounded lunar transport ship can be seen as the evolution of the use of space from military applications to peaceful exploration.
@@rev.markcarrier1894 The initial ships shown in the space sequence all represent orbiting satellite weapons stations. They are basically a continuation of the bone in purpose.
Its an interesting idea makes a lot of sense. Up above i said some sequences (pod legs deploy, space port doming opening) remind me of flowers opening in stop-action video. That too brings an association with fertilization.
This will forever be, one of the most beautiful scenes ever put on film. This is a true work of art. I have seen the entire Blue Danube scene more that 100 times, and I still get choked up. Kubrick's vision of what our future could become, was inspirational.
Totally agree, absolutely beautiful. And all the more pleasing because they tried to show space flight as how it actually might be then, including weightlessness. not space fantasy. To be fair, the concept of the space stations and vehicles and whatnot is straight from Werner Von Braun’s work.
What our future could become? Beautiful space stations and lunar cities. What it did become. Ugly, crime infested cities and no space program. WOKE government officials and people dying because someone wants power! Yeah sign me up....NOT!!
The anecdotal history is that a tech initially selected "random" classical music so the scene would not screen in silence for Kubrick. However the Director kept it because he subconsciously connected the Newtonian mechanics (of rotating on an axis while orbiting) to waltzing a box pattern while simultaneously making a grand circuit of the ballroom. Ridly Scott, in the Director's Voice-over (alternative sound-track) for "Alien", says "Thank you, Stanley", (for initially imagining the Instrument Graphics Display) when the Nostromo lands on Lv426.
I disagree. Setting up on the moon means that we are truly a planetary civilization. That means we won't easily go extinct if earth gets shifted on. Furthermore, going to the moon allows us to expand even more out towards other planets. Besides, we don't even know everything about the moon yet. I promise u
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I was a kid back when this movie was out. I remember my mom had the paperback version of the novel & in the middle were stills from the movie. I was too young to appreciate the story but just looking at the pictures of the Orion landing on the moon & of the Discovery 1 with the HAL computer & the astronauts heading out to Jupiter filled me with wonder & awe. I was an Apollo era kid & back then it was so easy to believe this kind of future was a certainty. Back then in the late 60s & early 70s there was such a feeling of optimism in this country and a sense that the type of future portrayed in the film was a certainty & it excited me. The pessimism of the mid-late 70s hadn't set in yet. In the 80s there was a renewed sense of positivity to be followed once again by skepticism & pessimism in the 90s. The pendulum always swings. Today I'm once again optimistic about this country's future in space when I see SpaceX & other private companies establishing their own toe-holds in Earth orbit. I truly hope the government's monopoly of space is coming to an end. Space should truly belong to each of us.
@@johnnie2638 That was beautiful! I don't know if you recently heard about SpaceX's test launch of Starship yesterday, which is the rocket they plan to send to send the first humans to Mars! I think we are well on are way to reach both the Moon and Mars before the end of the decade!
@@andrewparker318 I know. It's very exciting. The launch of Starship SN8 earlier this week was a testament to a new generation of thinking. Watching the SN8 perform the belly flop maneuver and then reignite the engines to stand upright on the landing approach was an excellent example of thinking outside the box. That's something I don't think NASA would have ever tried. Even the crash landing will yield valuable information for the engineers. The test went beautifully.
I will never get tired of watching this sequence. First time I saw it was when the BBC premiered it on New Years Day 1982 - and it was the 70mm version too so big black bars top and bottom of the screen - which made it feel even more special.
Fantastic music. This scene brings back so many memories from when I first saw 2001 back in 1970. The genius it took to make this film is in itself breathtaking. Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark, were the icons who made one of the greatest Sci Fi epics of all time.
I've read that the music that ended up on the soundtrack were temp tracks, which is normal. SK commissioned a new soundtrack from Alex North, received it, but decided to use the original temp tracks. He didn't tell North, who found out at the premiere. He was a bit miffed. You can buy North's soundtrack.
@@Beamshipcaptain I like Norths Soundtrack, it’s not that bad. But of course the classical masterpieces of the tmp track fit the epic and majestic style of the pictures much better.
@@tomhanhart5921 The music was well-chosen in the end. Gives me chills, its so good and so fitting. Like Hans Zimmer's incredible score for Chris Nolan's INTERSTELLAR (2014), a modern masterpiece.
Computer screens (HAL) used MANIFOLD typeface, which was an IBM Selectric “typewriter ball”. The HAL Project recreated that typeface (electronically) in the past 2 years. That project has recreated every HAL 9000 screen used in film to 4K modern resolution !! The original 1960s special effect was multi-cells layered to achieve graphics and text.
Here everything worked out by coincidence: at that time it was more difficult (and more expensive) to show a dashboard with a lot of CRT screens, so Kubrick simply used frosted glass for rear projection from 16mm movie projectors. And thanks to this, the screens turned out to be flat and with right angles, which even now looks quite modern (and not convex, with oval corners, like on TVs of the 60s).
It is good to remind oneself that this film was made in 1968. The era of FX we saw in Lost in Space, Star Trek and TV Batman, the year that gave us Barberella and Planet of the Apes, and 10 years before the Atari 2600. Kubrik was an artist who had to create reality from scratch. Watching these clips now, cannot describe how it felt to see these images in a movie theatre for the first time in 1968. Jurassic Park didn't come close to duplicating that awe a quarter century later using computers 1000's of ttimes more powerful than the ones that actually brought us to the moon. There are motion picture classics, but 2001 is not among them. It is in the order of motion picture milestones. What are you doing Dave ?
0:57-1:26 this part of the waltz exactly matches up with the lunar descent in that as the waltz drops in pitch, the Aries lunar spacecraft also descends in altitude.
The Composer for this film was told by Kubrick to write an original score and at the last minute Kubrick used Blue Danube and all the other licensed music that the composer didn't write. So when the composer went to see the film, he was dumbfounded that his score wasn't even in the movie for even one minute. Still for the best tbh lol you can't beat this. The stars aligned for this movie to be made (no pun intended)
Actually, Kubrick was watching preliminary versions of several special effects shots, like this one, and Alex North hadn't provided his music yet. So Kubrick just had some classical music played to cover the sound of the projector. It was pure luck that the classical music worked so incredibly well. So classical music was used from that point, and the shots reedited to fit the music. BTW, a lot of the original 2001 Alex North music ended up in the movie The Shoes of the Fisherman.
That composer was Alex North, who had earlier written the original music for Kubrick/Douglas “Spartacus”. Sadly, Alex only discovered the switch at the film’s premiere. However, Mr. North reworked un-used pieces of his score for “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (Anthony Quinn), which received an Academy (Oscar) Nomination and WON The Golden Globe for that Original Score.
Its easy with today's technology of 2022. Look at Elon Musk and Space-X. The boosters and the entire ship like the new starship land right back on their launch pds, or on barges off the coast of Florida. Even Hobby Drones have gyrostabilizers, and GPS and your phones and tablets have GPS, etc. and the equivalent of an HD film-studio is in your pocket, razor-thin. Imagine today's cell-phone or tablet, in 1968!
Apollo 12 landed 600 feet away from Surveyor III (sent much earlier) to demonstrate target landing on the moon. And that was just on the second manned lunar landing... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12#/media/File:Surveyor_3-Apollo_12.jpg
Just superb. Everything about the sequence is pure believable and logical - from the Aries to Clavius, design, mechanics, flight behaviour and parameters - nothing is left to chance. Kubrick's perfectionism was a stunning success in this movie.
This film was overwhelming in a good way for me. The effects were so astounding and breathtaking. Then the score, it made space into a ballet. So stunning.
Dunno why people find this boring. Like, I get 2001 isn't everyone's cup of tea, but boring? This? It never fails to give me goosebumps by doing something so simple. Plus, again, the fact that THIS was made in 1968 and it rivals the effects in the original Star Wars films. There will never be another film like 2001 itself.
Star wars happened because of this. They use many for the same effects I think some special effects people who worked on this worked on star wars too. I've never watched this movie though only seen snipers because people think it's boring. I really need to watch it.
@@kaleholt Make sure you see it and be prepared to get something different from what you expected. I was 13 years old in 1968 when I saw it for the first time and didn't understand it at all. But in the meantime I've seen it countless other times and as I've matured I've naturally understood more. Among its many characteristics are the style, the calmness and expressiveness of the images. Sometimes, when I don't want to watch the whole movie but still want to take in a few beautiful moments, I pop in the DVD. But every time I end up watching the whole movie because it is so captivating.
The first time I watched this movie was 1975. It was a field trip with my school to Radio City Music Hall from Jersey City, NJ. and we all got to see a special show with the Rockets also. Wow! Wonderful field trip that was watching 2001 A Space Odyssey and the ladies doing those high kicks. 😊👍❤️💕
The wonder of 2001 is that the hardware looks real - not like the cheap, shoddy CGI that blights modern films - every SCI FI film that comes out with a spacesuit - I compare it with the 2001 ones - never seen one that betters it !
I saw this for the first time when it was released during the summer of 1968. Still one of the most incredible movies I've ever seen... it is not watched, it's experienced.
old DOS game "Frontier: First Encounters"...does anyone remember the music of the landing computer? (I bought my C64 back in the 80's just because of this game.) You're exactly right, it was Johann Strauss "An der schönen blauen Donau" as here in the clip
Greatest movie ever- a work of art. If you can see it off a 4k disk with an OLED TV- it is even more beautiful. I saw this when I was four on opening night in 1968 (with intermission) and it was my favorite movie since.
Watched 2001 high off my mind at like 1am on my flatscreen, all other lights off, and this was just one of the most beautiful film sequences I’ve ever experienced
We like your video version of the earth shuttle to to moon its the best one on youtube channels without all the extra fanfare. NO other channel has a true full earth to the space or shuttle to moon without all that extra fanfare or animations of these scenes. thanks.
This film clearly influenced a lot of Sci-Fi Space movies and TV series that followed. The lunar shuttle rocket bus was the inspiration for Space 1999's Eagle space craft. The scene where you see Heywood Floyd's space plane approaching the wheel shaped space station viewed from inside the docking area looks eerily like a scene from Star Wars.
Gerry Anderson hired the same people who worked on 2001, such as expert miniature-effects man Brian Johnson. Living legend. RIP SPFX legend Derek Meddings (THUNDERBIRDS, UFO, SUPERMAN:THE MOVIE, JAMES BOND, etc).
It also influenced countless aerospace engineers as aviation moved to “fly by wire” and glass cockpits. Look at the differences between space capsules by: Lockheed Orion; Boeing Starliner; and SpaceX Dragon. When SNC’s Dreamchaser migrates to manned spacecraft by end of decade - it may be more advanced. SpaceX is almost all Touch screen, while Boeing was more conservative (787 cockpit). The Pad used by Frank Poole (and Star Trek original series) influenced Apple’s iPad design !
I was a kid during the Apollo years, in the 60s and early 70s. The advances in space exploration was so fast during the 60s that this film, looking 30 years into the future, was a realistic expectation. Gosh how wrong we were. Now, 50 years later, it is still pretty much a pipe dream. Great movie though, by a superb director Stanley Kubrick, who directed many other superb films.
Kubrick's decision to scrap Alex North's score and use classical compositions by Strauss, Ligeti and Khachaturian was a good call. It's astonishing to see the practical effects Kubrick and his creative team devised for the film. One visual they muffed a bit was how Earth looked from space. Remember that this was before the moon landing. The Earth looks more colorful than represented in 2001.
The same was true for the depiction of Jupiter in the film. It was shown with washed out colors, but that was only the faithful reproduction taken from Earth-based telescopes. This was something that was corrected in the sequel, 2010, having the benefit of the Voyager photographs showing Jupiter in its full glory.
Épico. Ainda mais quando projetado em cinerama na tela do Cine Astor em Porto Alegre, com direito a 8 faixas de som. Era 1968, e, para as crianças que assistiam esse filmaço, não havia limites no céu.
I love this, the knowledge and knowhow that this one scene shows is astounding. To know that the best thing to do is build underground and the ship itself is logical and exactly what would work best to get onto the moon. This whole movie is just a masterpiece through and through.
55 years - 1968 - however next year will be the 60th anniversary of 2001’s initial conception of the project which began in April 1964 when Stanley Kubrick wrote a letter to Arthur C. Clarke, declaring that he wanted to make ‘the proverbially good science fiction movie…’
I saw this at the Lowe’s Capital in NYC on the curved screen before the 18 or so minutes were trimmed out of the Final Cut. After all these years I still expect some of the scenes when I watch 2001
Since 2001 A Space Odyssey, there hasn't been ONE film that has even come close to touching it for both a music and visual breakthrough, including characters and story. The closest film, I think, is Tron Legacy.
its amaiZing how they pulled this scene off. so gracefull and seamless and the timeing , ohm myyyy. wonder how many takes the had to do this , id be amaiZed if it were in one take .
Just to think -- none of these computer displays were done on a computer. They're all stencils, typewritten pages, technical drawings and photographic effects.
With the passage of time obviously the special effects techniques used have become more obvious. The use of photos of models, rather than the actual models themselves, in shots has become easy to spot. It is still a very impressive achievement. Kubrick walked a very fine line between self-indulgence and mesmerizing. He did succeed in creating a sense of reality indifferently watching the human events occur during the space travel scenes. It is both awe-inspiring and deeply foreboding.
I noticed that the pilots could see their approach to Clavius -- they must have rotated the Aries lander so that their windows were oriented horizontally toward the base. But when they are landing, the lander's orientation is vertical again. Interesting how Kubrick didn't thoroughly work out this procedure on film, as thorough as the finished product already is.
Did you notice the picture-in-picture in the center of the screens on the left? The backlit cockpit windows in the Aries lander look like eyes, and the venier thruster between and below them looks like a nose. The deep red color is thought to evoke the womb, as us the emergency airlock and Hal's brain room on the Discovery Jupiter spacecraft. Did you see the people inside those side rooms? Those windows, exposed to the vacuum, are huge.
