How Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey - Part 2: The Floyd Section
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2015
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Part 2, we dive into the production of the Floyd section of the film. Every bit of information in this video was available for free on the Internet and from the Bluray of the film. I explored what was available on the Internet and found tons of great information from a wide variety of sources concerning the special effects, music, costumes, set, and several of the actors.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Sources:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Eyes Wide Shut (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Spartacus (Dir. Stanley Kubrick 1960)
The Making of Kubrick’s 2001 - Edited by Jerome Agel (special thanks to La Familia Film)
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A vintage article from American Cinematographer by Douglas Trumbull on creating Special Effects for 2001 A Space Odyssey
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DOUGLAS TRUMBULL | Master Class | Higher Learning
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Stanley Kubrick | 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) | Making of a Myth
• Stanley Kubrick | 2001...
2001: A Space Odyssey -- A Look Behind the Future
• 2001: A Space Odyssey ...
Space Station Model in dump
www.cinematography.com/index.p...
Michel Ciment - Kubrick interview quote
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_...)
Maggie London interview
www.2001italia.it/2013/06/two-...
Chela Cannon interview
www.2001italia.it/2013/10/you-...
Stanley Kubrick & Hardy Amies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, When Fashion and the Future Collide
hardyamies.com/heritage/herita...
American Cinematographer - Douglas Trumbull
cinetropolis.net/vintage-artic...
Alex North - Space Station Docking Sequence
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The Dawn of Man BFI Live British Film Institute (2010)
2001 A Space Odyssey BFI Event Live Orchestra (2010)
Herbert von Karajan conducts The Blue Danube Waltz
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Alan Cumming on the First Time He Met Stanley Kubrick
• Alan Cumming on the Fi...
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes - (Full Metal Jacket production footage)
The Making of The Shining
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“I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary” by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/licensing/)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
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Here is a series of great videos by Rob Ager that go into greater detail of some of the aspects I discuss in this video:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Behind the Propaganda Pt1 (film study by Rob Ager)
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"naturally we are looking forward 35 years..." That hits me in the stomach when i consider that we are already 19 years past 2001.
Yep
At one point in time humans will be able to tell their children "look, this is how space travel used to look back in 2001,,
And Kubrick didn't live to see the year 2001.
I remember that back then the idea of the year 2000, the Millenium, had a powerful mythic-futuristic quality about it,
like a time-doorway into a whole new age of possible space-travel and unimagined scientific wonders, even a world finally past the Human hysterias of warfare (both 'hot' and 'cold'), when 'Mankind' finally grew up and began to act reasonably - A _definitive_ new chapter in our species' book.
Also: Jetpacks. :(
Sometimes you need to spend 40 years in the desert before you can finally enter the Promised Land.
Stanley Kubrick was a genius. Every scene a painting made exactly the way he wanted it made.
So glad I never had to work for him though.
Well, you know what they say: every genius is a little nuts.... okay maybe Kubrick was more than a *BIT* nuts but I digress.
I am still amazed how good the miniature work still looks today.
A well filmed miniature should stand the test of time.... especially as it’s combined here with careful and truely visionary set design. Only disregard of depth of field or proper lighting or perspective makes some miniature shots of the past look like jokes today.
5:22 The photographer actually DID have the presence of mind, but the thing was just too large for him to carry it (IIRC he was on his bicycle). So he ran back home to fetch a friend to help him but by the time they got back the kids have destroyed it.
Heather Downam : "I was really high on painkillers, but I went to the audition anyway, and I could barely walk straight. He loved it!"
I was LoL while she explained it. Incredible how things work in the show business.
Ah yes, the 60s
They girls had to sit with him in his caravan with plastic bags covering their suits so they “wouldn’t get dusty” lmao
Blows my mind that the movie was made before the moon landing happened.
And both filmed by the same man. Blows away the argument that there wasn't the film technology to fake Apollo missions, huh?
Moon landings. Plural. With hours, days even, of vivid color footage. With astronauts bounding around on the surface, kicking up lunar regolith that settles gently to the surface at 1/6 gravity. Moon landing conspiracy theorists, when they’re not busy attending their flat Earther conferences, like to talk online about “The Moon Landing” as if there were only one, faked in an afternoon.
Meanwhile, they could go outside with a telescope, at a time of day or night when the ISS is passing overhead (NASA posts a schedule) and see with their own eyes an even greater accomplishment than the entirety of the Apollo program.
mal doran My uncle knew I was a SciFi addict and he took me to see 2001 in Tampa from where we lived in Clearwater. The film was shot in Cinerama and it took a special theatre with 3 projectors synchronized together,projecting onto a wide curved screen. An amazing theatre experience,especially in the mid 1960’s. We are spoiled today with the technology Hollywood has today.
@@Activated_Complex The point of the conspiracy is that they didnt have the tech to withstand earths radiation ring, for so to land on the moon, live on tv, broadcasted to everyone, and then do another liftoff from the moon and get all the way back to earth alive. in the 60's.
dannass5 You wouldn’t want to spend months hanging out in the Van Allen belts, but each Apollo mission spent less than two hours total there. Not enough to absorb more than a fraction of the radiation they ultimately receive from the sun, which is the actual obstacle to going someplace further out, like Mars.
The Soviet Union, hostile to the US at the time, and with every reason to go public with any data that contradicted the Apollo program’s accomplishments, were conducting their own, unmanned, Lunar missions at the time. And were well aware, before, during, and after these missions, of the total radiation exposure when crossing from Earth orbit to cislunar space and into Lunar orbit.
And several other nations have conducted their own missions to the Moon since. Even a privately-owned communications satellite was once placed in an orbit around the Moon to return it to a suitable, stable Earth orbit to save on reaction mass.
Any conspiracy theory, then, must list the Cold War era USSR, and more recently, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the EU, and even private industry, as co-conspirators. And then go on to offer a compelling explanation of why (and how) they all remain silent.
Best 2001 documentary I have seen. Congratulation.
johannes914 Thanks! Glad you liked it! I have a new What I Learned From Watching video coming out soon and then I'll get back to Part 3. Thanks for watching!
#truth. the quality is really blowing my mind
Joe Casson honey, you’ve got a storm coming. In all seriousness, it is a masterpiece in its own right that, whether you like it or not, was one of the pioneers of sci-fi movies as we know them. Regardless of how much you like the movies, it is hard to deny the artistic talent, creativity, and influence that it has.
I CAN'T believe the pencil effect was THAT simple. Mindblowing.
Such a clever effect!
Goes to show brilliancy of special effects. Sometimes simple stuff has huge impact, but needs someone with a very good brain to deliver. i.e. The Day The Earth Stood Still had primitive effects but delivers cinematic impact to the storyline.
come on, that's the most widely known tidbit about the movie. what's more mindblowing is that they bothered to film a scene of an entirely different movie to show on the monitor in the background.
My mind was being boggled when I saw that scene, I know there is no way a pen could be really flying but it looked so real and seamless. it's brilliant
@@samwallaceart288 I'd say the pen is still better. Sure they made a scene of another movie for the movie, but that's sort of like making a prop for the movie.
The automobile on Floyd's shuttle seatback T.V. was not by Ford but provided by General Motors. The concept turbine car, named "Firebird IV", appeared at G.M.'s Futurama exhibit at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. I remember it well as a kid at the fair.
Thanks for the info! Such an interesting looking car.
I can't believe you did Closed Captioning for these videos. You sir are a dedicated and talented man.
Renenko Thanks for noticing! It takes a ton of time to transcribe everything and set the timings.
And I still enjoy it to this day ! It's always cool when english is not the first language you learned.
@@CinemaTyler your craftsmanship is exceptional. Thank you!
I thought closed captions were auto-generated by RUclips. You really had to do all of that yourself? That's awesome man.
It’s a motion picture that has stood the test of time and because of the detail that went into its creation. Thank you so much for compiling this video and narrating it.
Is too impressive that they got the earth's image very real without even knowing how it looked like until years later. That's amazing job right there.
To tell the truth there were already many accurate images of the Earth from space, for example those took by the Gemini mission.
There were TIROS and Nimbus photos of Earth well before this film. The smartphone era did not invent everything or much of anything.
Until I watched this video , I was unaware the satellite was a deadly weapon.
I was surprised as well. There is a lot of detail in the movie that isn't explained. I think it really adds to the depth of the film.
There really should be a hint of it, because the idea behind the transition is really really neat. It doesn't have to be made obvious, just a somewhat threatening or weapon-like appearance would be enough.
Yes that was a surprise! But MAKES SENSE!
Yes, I wish they had kept the narration!
it sits there kind of ominous and sinister alone waiting like a sniper in fact not only are they tube like and pointing towards the earth the USA one looks like a truncated sniper rifle
My favorite film, by far. I have watched It at least fifty times, and, each time, I find more to love. Kubrick’s incredible attention to detail, his intelligence, and his very quirky personality resulted in a body of cinematic work equaled artistically perhaps by Hitchcock, Scorsese, Peckinpah, Ford, and precious few other directors. Thanks for the amazing series of 2001 videos.
I particularly enjoyed the section halfway through, where that splendidly GORGEOUS British flight attendant (played by a still beautiful Heather Downham) explained how she got the role, and described her unsteady walk down the aisle, which probably won her the role. Along with her incredible English accent and incredible blue eyes, I'm STILL in love with her! Thanks for this wonderful documentary.
O just love the way she talks, not a wasted syllable and so articulate.
I first saw this movie in a cinema in 1980 and have watched it many times over ever since. It never dawned on me that those satellites were weapons. I took them to be communications, weather or other scientific satellites. This puts a whole new perspective on the story that I had not even considered before. Now I must watch it all over again!
Yes, I didn't realise either. But it does kind of tie up with what the intentions of the 'Star Child' at the end had; it was contemplating causing mayhem on Earth according to the book although the film missed this out. Seems we've always have been; are ...and always will be our own worst enemy...?
They always looked kind of evil to me. While I never assumed anything specific they gave me a bad feeling, which was balanced again by the space station and the nice chat between the USA and UdSSR
2001ASO kitbashed models that to this day look way ahead of the times. I never knew of the killer satellites idea, makes more sense of the bone weapon transition.
This is simply superb. Not merely expertly produced, but such a scholarly compilation. It's so easy to dismiss or even bypass the achievement of 2001, especially with the arrival of advanced technology. You remind us with these videos, not only what a groundbreaking filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was, but what a cinema innovation it is. And though it should go without saying, you lay out the extraordinary labor it took to make it all in that era. Thank you.
That these were nuclear weapons in space, was completely lost on the audience when seen. This is the first I've ever heard of it. We just thought they were spaceships.
An Anna So true ! I never knew til now, in 2020 !
Nobody knew that, and a very wise decision on someone's part deleted the film-contaminating narrative. The silence and grandeur of that majestic scene was breathtakingly effective, and the mysterious 'threat' of the monoliths was far more subtle and sinister than the tired idea of nuclear annihilation.
Dude, you have at least 13 videos by now, a relatively new channel, yet it's one of the coolest and most informative channels I have seen over the past years, well done!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the vids. Stay tuned for more!
Your analysis of the "interview scene" between Dr Floyd and the Russians is a perfect example of Kubrick's Deep Perspective technique, and his ability to perfectly balance and compose each shot.
Look, I'll be as succinct as possible: this is wonderful, and you should be proud of yourself.
Thank you!
Really loving your work, Tyler. Very thoughtful and beautifully presented.
you sir need to get paid for this! this whole time watching i imagined im with you describing this movie as well as there are several things i would love to point out that you ommited. sort of a 2 person commentary, with a secondary guy (me) pointing out another detail and a (slightly) different view point every now and then... Its my little weird hobby, i love old movies and i love commenting them!
keep it up! i hope someone will notice this, you deserve to get paid. Also you've been blessed with a great voice for this! friendly, easy to listen but not drawing to much attention, mellow but not sleep inducing....
cheers!
KC
Thank you!
And here I thought the Floyd section was the part at the end that matches up with Pink Floyd's Echoes.
+Jaspertine Hehe, it is a pretty funny coincidence that the character is named Heywood Floyd when Pink Floyd is so often associated with 2001.
Ha. That's the exact reason I started watching. Turned out to be a great series, thanks for making this!
I haven't finished this video yet, but yet I'm hoping it mentions the fact that Kubrick asked Floyd to make music for 2001, which they dexlined. But the song echoes mysteriously came out, and was the exact same length as the "Jupiter and beyond" segment of 2001. They're both about 23 minutes, and they got together perfectly. They original lyrics to echoes were about space travel.
That part about asking the air stewardesses their thoughts was kind of insane. Did he really want them to come up with something crazy? Would he actually reject the thought of the day?
The Blue Danube in that scene is perfect as the space station and ship dance together.
I'm really enjoying these videos. As a huge Kubrick fan, you really amaze me with all the details you came up with. I wouldn't have thought someone could tell me new things about this film, but you still manage to tell some new facts and still make the stuff that I already knew very entertaining.
I would really like if you deconstruct some more scenes like you did with the russians meeting scene. Fascinating stuff. Can't wait for the next one.
Jop Leuven Thanks! I’m glad you are enjoying them! I had originally planned for the Floyd section and the Lunar Surface section to be one video, but the Floyd section had more information than I was expecting. Toward the end of this one, I thought I had better wrap it up because it was approaching a half hour and it was a month since my last video. It was a pure coincidence that part 2 was uploaded exactly one month after part 1. I will definitely deconstruct more scenes in the next parts. Thanks for the comment!
Great stuff! I am really enjoying these, and like the movie itself I will see your videos over and over. Combined, your short videos make the best documenary I've ever seen on this film
One thing: Many people miss this, but what you call "The Floyd Section" is, in fact, still The Dawn of Man. That's what the Jump cut means. We’re still in the Dawn of Man regardless of the sophistication of our tools. That is why the section has no inter-title. Things the "apes" do in the early section are reflected in the space station scene - most interesting in this view is the scene with the Russian scientists over drinks. Drinking areas are, idiomatically, called "watering holes." And these two tribes (American, Soviet) are - as you note - in subtle conflict. 3,000,000 years later, we are still fighting over the watering hole. Instead of screaming over the watering hole as the apes did, we get the veneer of politeness with the Russian asking several times if Floyd would like a drink. Seen in this light, I find it hilarious.
For another visual joke in this section, contrast the sleeping Floyd's limp arm with his pen floating above the hand. This is a parody of the shot of Moon Watcher with his bone. Where Moon Watcher was vibrant and dynamic, Floyd is out cold. And the pen floats like the bone in the sky.
Thanks for these videos. I deeply admire (and envy!) your perceptive observations.
This is also mirrored in the book, where Clark comments that Humanity is still in its infancy and (as in Childhood's End) is reaching the point where we would "leave the cradle" (Earth). Sadly, reality just threw all that in the bin, as space exploration was nothing but a political tool between competing nations, and today in PC/SJW cultural wars, no one of importance really cares for it, even though it's key to Humanity's survival.
emmfc wow!! Had not considered it this way, fantastic!
This stuff is like porn for movie nerds...I love it!
+SquidkidMega Thanks for watching!
It is God story to atheist.
@@Ruukas9 How so?
That explains my erection.
OMG I would KILL for any one of those ship models. I would use it to build a shrine ro Kubrick. lol
I can't wait to see the Aries when it's finally on display!
There is a book from early 70s (maybe referenced here in description) where some kids making a 8mm sci-fi film wrote to Kubrick, "we would like to borrow a spacesuit. We are honest and will take good care of it."
The Russian scientist is a famous British comedic actor called Leonard Rossiter. He’s well loved in the UK. It always great to see him in this, and his part in Barry Lyndon as Captain Quin.
I know I can't hear 'On The Beautiful Blue Danube' without seeing a ship and a space station, slowly turning...
It worked the other around when David Braben created the game 'Elite'. I still remember the turning Coriolis stations in the game accompanied by the "Blue Danube" in glorious 8-bit SID audio on the C-64 back in the 80's
stefanguels I played Elite on the BBC Micro and later, an Amstrad 6128. I do remember the BBC version having the Blue Danube play at the beginning.
@@stefanguels Elite on the amstrad 464 was the game which got me into classical music.
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In part 2, we dive into the production of the Floyd section of the film. Every bit of information in this video was available for free on the Internet and from the Bluray of the film. I explored what was available on the Internet and found tons of great information from a wide variety of sources concerning the special effects, music, costumes, set, and several of the actors. #Kubrick #2001ASpaceOdyssey #filmmaking #MakingOf #FilmSchool #scifi #ScienceFiction #space #ArthurCClarke #production #filmanalysis #filmtheory #HardyAmies
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AMAZING Documentary !!!
where did you find the first script for 2001.
Colten Dudley There are two versions here:
www.dropbox.com/s/fpm5r0zf8rmb321/2001%20-%20A%20Space%20Odyssey%20%5BDraft%201-3-1966%5D%5BScan%5D.pdf?dl=0
www.dropbox.com/s/xliyirezj7yhsy6/2001%20A%20SPACE%20ODYSSEY%20Screenplay%20by%20Stanley%20Kubrick%20and%20Arthur%20C.%20Clarke.pdf?dl=0
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I remain in awe of this supremely talented film director and this masterwork will still be taking peoples’ breath away in a hundred years.
It hearts my heart knowing that the Space Station could have been saved...
them damn kids
Best 2001 documentaries, thanks Tyler. Keenly anticipating part 3.
dick cherry Thanks! I have a new 'What I Learned From Watching' coming out very soon and then I'll return to 2001. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!
I had a Russian friend translate the initial portion of the Russian Scientist scene:
- At what time are we leaving approximately?
- Approximately at 14:00.
- Maybe we should go to the observatory?
- As soon as "he" (it seems they say the name of the American scientist but I can't get it) will arrive.
Interesting! I'm surprised that, out of all of the futuristic gadgets they had in the film, they didn't seem to show any kind of real-time translator. It would have made the scene much less dramatic, but it would have been interesting if they had included it elsewhere.
I was in Junior high when this movie was released and it rewired my brain in terms of what to expect from a movie. The space station docking scene is one of the most beautiful and poetic sequences ever filmed, in my opinion.
Two other movies that similarly reshaped my expectations of film are Peter Greenaway’s “The Pillow Book” and Joao Rodrigues’ “O Fantasma” which are very different but equally impactful in their own ways. “The Pillow Book”, in particular, I watch with the sound off because the visuals are completely intoxicating.
In the shuttles dockning scene, thee is a BIG mistake that he great perfektionist Kubrick clearly let slip through or never saw. It is when we see the Spacestation outside the shuttles wind screen. Despite that the station revolves the shadows on it never move. It’s like the sun spinns in a synchronousely orbit around the station…
The man who found the Space Station and a couple of other models (the Aries, I believe) has written about the experience. He didn't lack the "presence of mind," he just had limited space in his pickup bed. So he salvaged the others, but had to leave the Space Station (which was already severely damaged by rough handling) to its fate.
Tyler, thank you so much for this series man. I THOUGHT i knew a lot about the film until watching these. Absolutely incredible Jon not just on the information given, but the editing and insertion of interviews and on-set photos. Subbed & shared on fb/twitter :) Can't wait to see what other films you have done this for!
+Tyler Por Thanks! I really appreciate it! I'm constantly amazed at how much new and fascinating information I come across while researching these.
Awesome job! Are you going to make a video on the Beyond the Universe Section?
TREY the Explainer Yes! It might be a while though. I'm currently working on Part 3: The Lunar Surface (TMA-1). Hopefully it'll be up soon!
CinemaTyler Cool! I'm massive fan! You make extremely great quality videos!
TREY the Explainer Thanks! I'm glad you like them!
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"Jupiter and Beyond"
It is worth remembering that Kubrik was a photographer first and then a film maker. For this reason his framing is always thoughtful (and excellent). Your description of the conversational part of the space station scene exemplifies this. It's an overused word but the man was a genius.
Kudos to Tyler for his fine work.
Thanks!
The car is in fact a GM firebird, And as befits all things physical that relates to this film, was apparently scrapped in the 1980's.
Such a cool looking car. I wish they still made it!
it isn't a firebird, but it is a GM. It is a Buick. I've been trying to find the data so I can tell you what they called it, that's so far all I've been able to find is a picture.
Edit: I finally found it. I was incorrect. Originally it was the 1964 GM Firebird IV. It was apparently renamed in 1969 as the Buick Century Cruiser. Given when this movie was made, it may have already been renamed by the time it was used in the movie.
To this day, Hal scares me just as much as he did the first time i watched the movie
I love watching videos like this - there's so much that the casual movie-goer (like myself) doesn't notice or consciously appreciate, since the best techniques don't draw attention to themselves. Thanks for highlighting some of the amazing work that went into this, especially things like the sight lines and the framing.
I grew up in Austria and there is the custom to play the Blue Danube waltz exactly at 0:00am on January first on all radio stations. People, who are watching the fireworks, open their car doors, turn on the radio and dance wherever they are, in parking lots, mostly out in the snowy pastures….since I saw the movie in the early 70s I never could imagine anything other than slowly spinning space stations until today. When I learned to dance the Viennese waltz with my wife I always got high after a few quick turns on the dancing floor and was dancing with my love through space. Never can imagine anything other. Talk about mental imprint…. ♥️
At about 5.10 Douglas Turnbull criticises the guy who found the dumped space station model and "didn't have the presence of mind to put the damned thing on his truck and take it away". I heard that the photographer was an art student who only had a bike and lived in one small rented room. Admittedly though, it's a shame he couldn't get some rescue plan together.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I also heard a story that Kubrick never wanted anyone in the future to ever be able to tamper with the length of his film nor with the sequence of his editing. To ensure this, he ordered all of the additional scenes that were cut from the film to be taken out and buried in a secret dumpsite. I can’t remember who he entrusted with this mission but after his death, were any of these reels ever recovered? This I’m not sure of. They probably would be in horrible shape anyway. Moisture and temperature damage no doubt. I would have loved to have seen some of these outtakes!
I didn't notice the flags on the ships until I saw the film in 70mm, at the Prince Charles Cinema! It's a very nice, little detail.
Kubrick is the greatest!
Awesome work. Thank you for taking the extra time and effort for making and synching the subtitles. As a non-native English speaker, I find it extremely useful.
I just have to say, thank you so much for including transcripts for this series and your videos. beyond that, the in transcript citations are a great touch. had to subscribe right away
watching all these parts now..
again, tremendeus job on your projects.
keep on doing these videos.
i truly think your work is one of a kind regarding your focus on what to share with us.
very scientific and not a second of meh content.
wondering what are your next targets ;)
+rozroz Thanks! I really appreciate it! I'm working on Part 4 now!
Wonderful doc. Enjoyed it very much. An iconic movie. Fascinating look behind the scenes. Thank you.
+Otravez 39 Glad you liked it!
When the fan made documentary is better than any official effort...
Excellent work. Subbed.
Just watched the movie recently and I love it, loving these videos so far. I love how back then they got so creative with the effects, I appreciate your dedication for these videos
I just saw the 70 MM projection of this film last night.
I was lucky enough to catch a 70mm screening of 2001 last year and it made the film into a completely new experience despite seeing it hundreds of times at home. It really was meant to be projected big!
Did you enjoy?
I remember as a 9 year-old, walking down to the local movie theater and seeing it on the big screen when it first debuted in 1968. I think the matinee price was a whopping 50 cents. I was so blown away by the effects - not knowing how different sci-fi movies would be produced with computers years later. This film was "light years" ahead of it's time. Still my favorite movie of all time.
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My father drove and dropped me off at our local movie theater
( a small town ), I believe there were four people in attendance. The movie completely captivated me with it's boldness and of course the Stargate was transcendental for a young person moving into the teens..( laughing )!
Peace
@@CinemaTyler Cinesphere at Ontario Place, Canada. First IMAX theatre, 1970.
"There has been technical advancement, but: how little man himself has changed." --Khan Noonien Singh.
Haha - good one.
Man that’s deep
And humanity spends time and money looking for intelligent life in the universe.
In reality, no (other?) intelligent life wants nothing to do with earth.
Nothing here but death and suffering and truly intelligent beings would know this and spend a good amount of time and effort making sure they (the intelligent beings) never contact or disturb humanity, for fear of being bombed or shot in some way.
Intelligent life needs to remain consistent in contacting other intelligence.
To these ends, until humanity stops looking to kill, murder, hurt and make profit from other humans, intelligence will cut humanity a WIDE path.
Earth could be surrounded by intelligence but they want nothing to do with humans and make a good effort to remain hidden.
Man has changed, we're a lot dumber.
well… Khan was also a genetically modified human. One of the last remainders of the Earths Eugenics program and massively involved in the eugenic wars in the early 90s. Khan speaks kinda with the same level of arrogance about mankind like an alien or an artificial intelligence. But to make it worse… he was right x3
Everything is so meticulously done my head is gonna explode
This is one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on RUclips. I knew Kubrick was meticulous as I director but didn't realise how deep it went. Not just the cinematography and acting (it's amazing how he didn't drive the cast and crew mad), he also made the science as realistic as possible with some of the best experts in the world. It's easy to forget that this film predates the first colour photos from space (1968, and the famous 'Blue Marble' of 1972).
21:17 years before facetime and skype and cellphones and smartphones and laptops and tablets smart watches.
Brian Kent Pirrie It's crazy how much this movie predicted. I guess it makes sense when they had some of the leading futurists working on the film. The thing that always got me was the television screens embedded in the headrests on the Orion shuttle. I had totally forgotten that there wasn't anything like that back then and it took a lot of filmmaking trickery to pull it off. Now every plane has them. Thanks for the comment!
Brian Kent Pirrie but the main prediction - commonplace space travel was way off.
@Gary Allen “Yes, but these advances were common appearances in science-fiction stories of the time.”
Not just in science-fiction stories.
The Bell System PicturePhone 20:31 made its debut on 20 April at the 1964 World’s Fair (I saw it as a young kid) and it actually went into commercial use on 24 June of that year at “PictureBooths” at Grand Central Station in New York, Chicago and Washington, DC-the price was between $16 and $27 per minute (or $135 and $228 in today’s dollars). (Service at homes and businesses would be added in 1970.) Bell hoped for 12 million subscribers by the year 2000-though, perhaps, not any based on orbiting space stations-but the project languished, with almost no subscribers, until Bell ended it in 1978. So, at least with regard to the PicturePhone, Stanley Kubrick was just portraying something that had already been projected into the future in real-life.
I actually liked the way the actual soundtrack blended with the visuals.
Fantastic in depth analysis of minute details that went into creating the first space opera.
Incredible attention to detail.
Loved every minute!
This is the best "the making of.." on RUclips. Tyler, you have put many hours into this and it's a wonderful documentation of the how 2001 was made. If I were an instructor at a film school I'd have this series as required viewing for my students.
Great video. Good production ty.
+Zanzubaa1 Thanks!
So well done. I love production analysis. This is so helpful. Now I just have to fight the feeling that learning from your essay is plagiarism lol
LupeJustinian Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Wow, it's almost impossible to put into words how precise and elevated his technique was. Thank you for making this.
these videos are so well edited and scripted, thank you for making these! it's all very interesting and cool
I love this documentary.
+Akaaraq Hansen Thanks!
Tyler, please analyze Eyes Wide Shut.
Pretty simple...it's shit! ;)
Awful movie.
Agree. Though you're gonna get some knuckleheads who think it's not a masterpiece. Oh look, there they are...
@@madkinski only an idiot would think that shit is a masterpiece, I watched it for 35 minutes and I quitted, it was a torture of boring romantic talks, nothing to do with his previous masterpieces, he lost his spark in there.
So you quitted, huh? I guess you don't understand much about relationships... This movie is above most normal romcoms
"I was quite high on pain killers", eloquently spoken :)
Something I love about this film is that it is all flat screens. Even the pads that looks like used for reading the news are flat screen. It adds to the realism even though back then I think it was done of practical reasons.
22:43: some of the most important ideas about '2001' as from the man himself: Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Arthur C. Clarke
Mic drop.
To me any electrician is a magician.
Wonderful presentation. Not rushed and thanks too for pleasant, subtle background music. All the best.
YO, the contrast balance and line of sight blew me away, thank you
I was stunned and pleasantly surprised when I found that you actually create playlists for your series'
Thank you so much. Thank you.
There is a book published in the early 70's called "The Making of Kubrick's 2001".
I loved reading books back then about how movies and television were made. The one you mentioned plus The Making Of Star Trek and both the 1930's and 1970's King Kong films.
Even 5 years after the post; this overview is particularly thoughtful and compelling to watch to the last second. Kind of like 2001.
Thank you, I really appreciate this presentation.
Such a lot of in depth research, good job, subbed and liked.
AMAZING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT "2001" !!!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Again - you put a lot of work in your videos.
I built a model of the “Pan Am Space Clipper when I was a kid.
What a great documentary. Thank you Cinema Tyler - it's obvious that this work you produce, (and in all your productions), is a labor of love!
Thanks!
Awesome video documentary. I learned many things about the 2001 film that were new to me. Great "behind the scenes" photos and information. Makes me want to view the whole film again and see things in a new perspective. ~ Nice timing and narration work too. Thanks for making these.
"Futurism. To inform, intrigue, and normalize the idea of technological progress in space travel." .... Nice line. Where from? (looks like a Clarke-ism).
Superb work. Thank you
If George Lucas made this he'd CGI-in the much more modern at&t logo overtop the very old fashioned original 'bell' one visible at 20:32
Haha, you're probably right!
65-68., The slit scan effect devised by Douglas Turnbull, Don Penderson, other Canadian SP FX techs.
from National Film Board of Canada. Kubrick was a master hiring people.
You just seem to accept every shot and every scene in 2001 as seamless and perfect. They are. But the meticulous, painstaking and time consuming mastery of making that seamlessness is so engrossing and so intentional that there's little anyone can do but have another moment of being in awe of Kubricks' genius. I heard about a photographer who picked one lemon for a photoshoot out of a stack of more than a hundred, and then shooting pictures of that one lemon more than a hundred times for one good shot. 2001 feels more like a million lemons with a million shots.
This really is an incredible essay. Exceptional in its presentation and research, you stand head and shoulders above any other scholar I know of. Keep up the good work.
Kubrick was purely a genius. I am lucky to have been a fairly young man when this film was released...it blew me away...forever..
5:03 is terrible. It almost makes me sad.
Renenko I know :( Luckily the Aries shuttle was saved. It was just sold at an auction a couple months ago and it's in great condition. More on that in Part 3!
I am so glad! Is this your all time favourite film?
Renenko Yeah! It's usually at the top of my list.
Same. I don't understand how some people do not like this movie.
+Renenko this movie is amazing, but it's not for everybody, some parts are VERY slow, and the end part is very confusing, not everyone is patient enough
Dude! Such a wonderful job! I will see the movie with other eyes from now on
Anxiously waiting for part 3....good and nicely done..
Thanks! I'm working on Part 3 now. Sorry it's taking so long-- I started an IndieWire series recently, so I have been kind of splitting my attention between that and my channel lately. I'm glad you like the first two and hope to have the third part ready soon!
When I was 16 I drove to a major city that was 300 miles away so that I could see this film in a theater that was designed to show films such as Kubrick's 2001. The film was astounding, and I left the theater knowing that I was see it again. The freedoms my parents allowed me as a young man continue to astound me to this day.
1:44 never thought they were weapons.. Wow
I worked on the film in a small way, as I was working for the animation company [mentioned at 14.45] and filmed the screen graphics for the spaceship's computer e4adouts, all stop action on 35mm film, which was then back projected by a line of projectors onto screens in the cockpit. This process was later abandoned for on-set animation as explained, as it was quite laborious, taking me several days to film maybe 10 minutes of animation for one screen. I think there were eight screens and projectors.
I got to see round the set, including the rotating part where the 'astronaut' was seen exercising, running round a complete loop, which was in fact a quarter of the full loop which rotated while the human ran to keep in position, the quarters joined together to give a semplance of a circular space station.
I watched it in 1969 on acid, which was interesting.
Everything done by CGI now was painstakingly created manually. Good to know it's so highly rated considering what's available to animators these days. 2001 seemed so far away back in the 60s!
Your flat screen computer displays were outstanding. I was 13 yo when 2001 was released and I experienced it in Cinerama. I was awestruck. Movie inspired me to become a spacecraft digital communications engineer (now retired).
great stuff! I love your videos. I've learned a lot about camera work just by this video alone.
Thank you!
With regards to the score. I have always felt that Kubrick never found his John Williams. He never found a composer that was his musical muse, and that explains why he would hire composers and then either not use their work in the end, or use it in a diminished fashion.
+Jim Humphries It's really interesting-- he listened to everything he could get his hands on, but the main composers he went with for 2001 (Strauss and Ligeti) were more or less suggested to him. I can understand why he wouldn't settle for less than some of history's best composers-- especially when you consider how some of these brilliant compositions are now forever linked with Kubrick's work. That said, his daughter Vivian composed the original score for Full Metal Jacket and was supposed to write the score for Eyes Wide Shut as well, but decided not to. I wonder if he may have found a muse in her had circumstances been different.
I agree, it would certainly be interesting to see how things could have panned out differently...
As for 2001, the score for the space plane docking sequence is so perfect I can't imagine it any other way now. In fact I remember watching the film years ago with a school friend who said "I've heard this tune before but had no idea it was written for this movie!"
Jim Humphries sure he did, Walter/Wendy Carlos and his daughters
John Williams is a hack.
@Paolo G agreed. Who hasn't he plagiarised?
It is so interesting seeing how they made this film. That I have yet to actually watch fully. Read the book though. It's odd to see how they did stuff we would later do easily even in home enthusiast projects. And what they got right and wrong. Course some of the wrong is due to our lack of care and effort in outer space. Others are just technologies nobody had really thought of then that changed culture but.. Not things that would allow the dreams kids from the 50-80s actually had. :(
I really wonder how much of the film's technological predictions were actually a direct result of the film itself. I could totally see the idea to make a tablet computer coming from 2001: A Space Odyssey directly.
So much research and detail, the film and this video, Kubrick would be pleased I'm sure.
Good stuff. Well constructed, edited and presented.
Really enjoyed your approach on the materials here on these first two parts.
rdecredico Thanks! Working on Part 3 now!