I was 10 when this came out. My Mom took me to see it. We had never seen a movie like this with these clear, realistic special effects. The computer looks dated now, but it was so stunningly modern in 1968 to me. 2001 seemed so distant then that I thought it might really look like this, but it didn't, did it? My Mom fell asleep, but I talked her into staying to watch the movie a second time. I loved this movie and I still do. Parts still give me goose bumps.
One of the best executed scenes in all of moving pictures, and probably the highest-quality special effects in any film ever. There is absolutely no illusion-breaking here, every scene looks a hundred percent real.
One of the best movie scenes ever, as directed/created by genious Staley Kubrick. I watched this pinned to my seat in the debut screening as a small boy in 1969. Simply amazing! You should now always watch it in a darkened room on a big wide screen with surround sound to get the full effect.
I was 13 when this came out and I was blown away by. No one had ever made a movie like this, and no one has done so since. Now I'm 70 and I love this all over again.
I love how the Danube waltz wasn't originally intended for this scene. Kubrick just had it playing in the background during setup and decided to use the music for the scenes.
What's really cool to me as a pilot is that back in 1968, Kubrick invisioned glass cockpits, side stick controls and automated landing systems, things that didn't come into the market until and late 1990s and early 2000s.
Kubrick employed designers and engineers from all across the aerospace industry for this film. These were ideas that people probably knew would exist at some point but the technology wasn't quite there. That's my theory anyway
Film with best shot composition. Each frame has great composition. Incredible use of rule of 3rd, symmetry and all other compositions technique widely known in photography.
I was 7 when my Dad took my Brothers and me to see this in the theater when it came out. I was convinced it was all going to happen, in my lifetime. It gave me what I suppose was a kind of naive optimism about the future, but I am glad I had it.
Thanks for this good quality video and audio. Two days ago, I watched this great movie again, my 4th time seeing it on a big screen. It's serious, amusing, entertaining, inspiring, ... Kubrick's use of music and image here is amazing.
I can see the devs that made elite dangerous got a lot of inspiration from this movie seeing as they used the space station design and the docking sequence plus the music makes it so much sense now
Yes, the most amazing with that shot at 5:00, is that the great perfectionist Stanley Kubrick let it slip through to the finished film. If You look thorougly, the shadows don't move over the space station (as they do in all the other shots of the station), despite it's spinning. To get that effect, the sun must orbit the space station in a synchronous orbit...
An all-time favorite movie scene. I saw it at SUNY Albany with my sister in 1968. Before 2001, space movies featured the roar of rocket engines in the vacuum of space, which would actually be impossible to hear. This film changed that practice. There is another space-flight video with classical music dubbed in. Put in the following search words: "holst" "Rover." @tourguidestan on twitter, tripadvisor and here on TH-cam
Amazing. Saw this first run in 70mm format with six-track soundtrack in Seattle's Cinerama Theatre in 1968. So many things in this film came true 20-40 years later.
There was no cgi in this film at all, including the animation graphics within the computer screens in the cockpit. It was all hand-drawn. The other visual effects throughout the film were also all done by hand and in-camera, with models and matte paintings and other hardware effects. Get the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001, by Jerome Agel, published in 1970, for how it was done. This movie was a masterpiece of visual effects and still beats most cgi-based sci-fi films, in my opinion.
In the spaceship cockpit sim game, Elite: Dangerous, you have to dock with rotating space stations that have a similar "mailslot" entrance. They were directly inspired by this scene. In the game, if your ship has an automatic docking computer, once you give control of the ship over to this autopilot, it docks your ship for you---while playing Blue Danube.
Maybe we do not have a station like that or regular flights to this station or to the moon, but we have individual screen on our planes on regular flights and videoconference is a reality. I love this movie and I can see it many, many times.
You are SO right. People in the USA think the Space Shuttle was "space exploration" when it actually was only up about 200 to 400 miles, and often lower. If Earth was Basketball sized the Shuttle, Skylab, ISS were only about 3/8ths of an inch off its surface. Apollo was the last time men left Earth for real...
Yes. I saw it in a Cinerama theater on an 8x20 meter screen with multi channel sound. When HAL spoke, his voice came from all directions at the same time. You really felt he was over all in the ship.
An excellent movie....great pictures.... and cool story...and a crazy HAL 2000... I love this movie and I can watch it several times.... (normally I do not watch movies neither twice)
I have no idea how the model of the rotating space station was filmed. And I don't really want to know, because I love the sense of sheer wonder I get every time I view this sequence. Modern CGI looks like a child's drawing compared to this.
Many of the effects Kubrick used can only be used in space movies, where there is a black background, since they involved double exposure. That means that he filmed several objects, like planets and spaceships on the same negative, winding back the film in the camera between takes. Therefore we NEVER see a spaceship overlapping a brigthly illuminated planet, for example.
2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubreik Music: Chaikofsney: Danube Waltz This movie used the mobel of the Von Braun space station w/artificial gravity.
OK. As they say: "The beauty is in the beholders eye". It's my personal opinion that Kubrick created very beautiful scenes in most of his films. And, also I happen to be interested in space flight. But, of course I can understand if You have a different opinion
i read that it was actually sticked to a piece of very clear glass, hanging on a rope and if you watch carefully you can see that she picks it off the glass.
There's an added wrinkle to this story: Kubrick initially used Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube as a temporary placeholder while editing 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick had actually planned to use original music for the film, but during the editing process, he found that Strauss' waltz fit perfectly with the scenes, particularly the sequences involving the space station and spacecraft docking. Given that the film was made in the mid-'60s, he was somewhat concerned that older viewers might associate the piece with radio shows and film of traditional Viennese ballroom dancing, with an associated nostalgic, lighthearted context which could undermine the serious, futuristic tone he was seeking. However, the elegance and sense of timelessness that The Blue Danube brought to the visuals made it an ideal choice, and Kubrick ultimately decided to keep it in the final cut. Here it is in all its glory th-cam.com/video/SpvOUnz4T7Q/w-d-xo.html .
how come? I'm a teenager, and I loved this film, it's my #1 favorite along with Clockwork Orange! maybe present day's globalization is a little too obvious, but not all of us love twilight and harry potter :)
I've seen the movie several times. Even have it on DVD. The first time I saw it (in a theater) I thought it looked peculiar, but didn't know exactly why. The next time I saw it.
This is an awesome movie, even better if you read the novel which gives some insight behind the lack of dialog (screenplay & novel were written simultaneously) Amazing how some simple things have come true, but others are lacking. We COULD build a space station like that... but haven't. I still love the movie, but recommend reading the book before watching.
ah, you mean the cockpit scene; yeah, the shadows of the spinning station seem to be static. For a moment I thought the shadows weren't moving because the little spaceship was moving in synchronization with the spinning space station, thus making the shadows look static from the crew's point of view.
I do wonder if it might have been easier to have a circular entrance to the docking bay, so the shuttle could come in at any angle without having to line up so precisely.
In my experience it is a rare bird that writes code for external sale. Most shops that employ programmers import as little code as possible. Every programmer I’ve ever known writes code for in-house use, and then THEY become users of it. AFAIK CGI shops are no different. Perhaps *some* import code and have just graphic artists on their stations. As per usual most shops have programmers write up proprietary code, and then they earn their keep by being users of it for profit.
I don't think the shape of the entrance matters as long as it's large enough. Sychronizing the rotation wouldn't be as difficult as getting the correct angle of entry; which would be just as problematic no matter what shape of the entrance.
Fun Fact: The earth is painted mostly blue here, because at the time the movie was made, there was no photograph of earth from outside the planet available.
I was 10 when this came out. My Mom took me to see it. We had never seen a movie like this with these clear, realistic special effects. The computer looks dated now, but it was so stunningly modern in 1968 to me. 2001 seemed so distant then that I thought it might really look like this, but it didn't, did it? My Mom fell asleep, but I talked her into staying to watch the movie a second time. I loved this movie and I still do. Parts still give me goose bumps.
This is one of the most brilliantly executed and filmed movies of all time.
One of the best executed scenes in all of moving pictures, and probably the highest-quality special effects in any film ever. There is absolutely no illusion-breaking here, every scene looks a hundred percent real.
One of the best movie scenes ever, as directed/created by genious Staley Kubrick. I watched this pinned to my seat in the debut screening as a small boy in 1969. Simply amazing! You should now always watch it in a darkened room on a big wide screen with surround sound to get the full effect.
I could only see this movie once from beginning to end once but I tell you: it's worth every second!!! Just brilliant!!
I was 13 when this came out and I was blown away by. No one had ever made a movie like this, and no one has done so since. Now I'm 70 and I love this all over again.
I love how the Danube waltz wasn't originally intended for this scene. Kubrick just had it playing in the background during setup and decided to use the music for the scenes.
What's really cool to me as a pilot is that back in 1968, Kubrick invisioned glass cockpits, side stick controls and automated landing systems, things that didn't come into the market until and late 1990s and early 2000s.
An 11 year old comment causing me, a student pilot, to realize something I never realized since I’m so used to seeing glass cockpits and side sticks
Kubrick employed designers and engineers from all across the aerospace industry for this film. These were ideas that people probably knew would exist at some point but the technology wasn't quite there. That's my theory anyway
Where the hell would we all be without Stanley Kubrick?
Simply Brilliant !!!!!
Film with best shot composition. Each frame has great composition. Incredible use of rule of 3rd, symmetry and all other compositions technique widely known in photography.
Words are not necessary in a movie when things move. Brilliant.
Never seen this movie, but these sets look like some of the best I've ever seen.
Even being in the 60's....maybe BECAUSE it's the 60's.
Just about every single scene is a visual masterpiece of art.
This is art. Stanley Kubrick is a genius
I was 7 when my Dad took my Brothers and me to see this in the theater when it came out. I was convinced it was all going to happen, in my lifetime. It gave me what I suppose was a kind of naive optimism about the future, but I am glad I had it.
Thanks for this good quality video and audio. Two days ago, I watched this great movie again, my 4th time seeing it on a big screen. It's serious, amusing, entertaining, inspiring, ... Kubrick's use of music and image here is amazing.
I love this movie to the death.How can someone cannot be fascinated by 2001?
This movie was made 4 years before I was born (1972) and it is still amazing!
Nothing quite like looking up at a single, lone object in the desolate infinity that is space as Strauss plays his single greatest piece ever...
I can see the devs that made elite dangerous got a lot of inspiration from this movie seeing as they used the space station design and the docking sequence plus the music makes it so much sense now
This is the scene that made me cry as a kid, and why this is my favorite movie. I guess I'm romantic about stuff like this.
strauss and kubrick, what a combination!
Yes, the most amazing with that shot at 5:00, is that the great perfectionist Stanley Kubrick let it slip through to the finished film. If You look thorougly, the shadows don't move over the space station (as they do in all the other shots of the station), despite it's spinning. To get that effect, the sun must orbit the space station in a synchronous orbit...
An all-time favorite movie scene. I saw it at SUNY Albany with my sister in 1968.
Before 2001, space movies featured the roar of rocket engines in the vacuum of space, which would actually be impossible to hear. This film changed that practice.
There is another space-flight video with classical music dubbed in. Put in the following search words: "holst" "Rover."
@tourguidestan on twitter, tripadvisor and here on TH-cam
This film was more than just movie, It was a unique experience.
Amazing. Saw this first run in 70mm format with six-track soundtrack in Seattle's Cinerama Theatre in 1968. So many things in this film came true 20-40 years later.
One of the very few sci fi films to acknowledge zero gravity, something notoriously difficult to simulate.
i love every frame of this movie with all my heart. and what music!
The Man dances with the World at his feet!! Stanley Kubrick is a Genius, is a Divinity!!
What blows me away about this movie is that it was released a year before we landed on the moon.
Huh...I never would have even noticed that! Thanks for pointing that out!
There was no cgi in this film at all, including the animation graphics within the computer screens in the cockpit. It was all hand-drawn. The other visual effects throughout the film were also all done by hand and in-camera, with models and matte paintings and other hardware effects. Get the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001, by Jerome Agel, published in 1970, for how it was done. This movie was a masterpiece of visual effects and still beats most cgi-based sci-fi films, in my opinion.
This is THE best space scene in any film,ever
Somehow this feels more exciting than those CGI space battles in the new Star Wars trilogy.
That was such an amazing shot at 5:00!
In the spaceship cockpit sim game, Elite: Dangerous, you have to dock with rotating space stations that have a similar "mailslot" entrance. They were directly inspired by this scene. In the game, if your ship has an automatic docking computer, once you give control of the ship over to this autopilot, it docks your ship for you---while playing Blue Danube.
Maybe we do not have a station like that or regular flights to this station or to the moon, but we have individual screen on our planes on regular flights and videoconference is a reality. I love this movie and I can see it many, many times.
Incredible video! Incredible movie! Thanks for posting!
First words spoken in the movie, about 20 minutes in: "Here you are sir, main level."
You are SO right. People in the USA think the Space Shuttle was "space exploration" when it actually was only up about 200 to 400 miles, and often lower. If Earth was Basketball sized the Shuttle, Skylab, ISS were only about 3/8ths of an inch off its surface. Apollo was the last time men left Earth for real...
Yes. I saw it in a Cinerama theater on an 8x20 meter screen with multi channel sound. When HAL spoke, his voice came from all directions at the same time. You really felt he was over all in the ship.
An excellent movie....great pictures.... and cool story...and a crazy HAL 2000... I love this movie and I can watch it several times.... (normally I do not watch movies neither twice)
The entire movie... GENIUS!
The first film I bought when I got a Blu-ray. Definitely well ahead of its time - it's as old as me!
thats an awesome perspective, thanks for sharing!
I have no idea how the model of the rotating space station was filmed. And I don't really want to know, because I love the sense of sheer wonder I get every time I view this sequence.
Modern CGI looks like a child's drawing compared to this.
I like how they gave the flight attendant a weird hat to solve the zero gravity hair special effects problem.
This film amazad me when I was 18, back in '69. Since then, I've seen it more than 16 times
Best montage ever!
A classic tune for a classic film ^.^
5:22-5:43 best scene ! Kubrick's perfection is on that specific scene !
@arsenal140 - VERY indulgent, however beautifully executed. I still can't believe this was filmed in 1965-1968.
When you watch this you realise that space travel is mankind's greatest achievement
I was prompted to look at this again when I heard about Neil Armstrong. Perhaps one day we'll be able to carry on what he started.
Look at this,kids.THIS is real fucking cinema.
Reconhecida produção do cinema......e uma grandiosa obra de Johann Strauss !
Many of the effects Kubrick used can only be used in space movies, where there is a black background, since they involved double exposure. That means that he filmed several objects, like planets and spaceships on the same negative, winding back the film in the camera between takes. Therefore we NEVER see a spaceship overlapping a brigthly illuminated planet, for example.
boy do i love kubricks sense for music!!!
Wow this movie was so ahead of it's time, it's a shame the optimism and hope for the future of the late 1960's was lost...
Kubrick: visionario. Sólo su perfeccionismo podía crear estas escenas en 1968. Y con la música de Strauss!.
This is the best movie ever made.
Kubrick é um dos maiores gênios do cinema
Brilliant.
...waltz over the earth... I miss you....
Stanley Kubrick is the best director in the human history !!!!!!!!!!!
2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubreik
Music: Chaikofsney: Danube Waltz
This movie used the mobel of the Von Braun space station w/artificial gravity.
OK. As they say: "The beauty is in the beholders eye". It's my personal opinion that Kubrick created very beautiful scenes in most of his films. And, also I happen to be interested in space flight. But, of course I can understand if You have a different opinion
I miss these times, when the film makers used mock-ups, there are far realistic than CGI. It have got a special atmosphere.
HA! i never noticed it said "Pan Am" on the side! To cool!
i read that it was actually sticked to a piece of very clear glass, hanging on a rope and if you watch carefully you can see that she picks it off the glass.
There's an added wrinkle to this story: Kubrick initially used Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube as a temporary placeholder while editing 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick had actually planned to use original music for the film, but during the editing process, he found that Strauss' waltz fit perfectly with the scenes, particularly the sequences involving the space station and spacecraft docking. Given that the film was made in the mid-'60s, he was somewhat concerned that older viewers might associate the piece with radio shows and film of traditional Viennese ballroom dancing, with an associated nostalgic, lighthearted context which could undermine the serious, futuristic tone he was seeking. However, the elegance and sense of timelessness that The Blue Danube brought to the visuals made it an ideal choice, and Kubrick ultimately decided to keep it in the final cut. Here it is in all its glory th-cam.com/video/SpvOUnz4T7Q/w-d-xo.html .
how come? I'm a teenager, and I loved this film, it's my #1 favorite along with Clockwork Orange! maybe present day's globalization is a little too obvious, but not all of us love twilight and harry potter :)
I've seen the movie several times. Even have it on DVD. The first time I saw it (in a theater) I thought it looked peculiar, but didn't know exactly why. The next time I saw it.
Whenever I hear this music I thank god for docking computers ;)
This is an awesome movie, even better if you read the novel which gives some insight behind the lack of dialog (screenplay & novel were written simultaneously) Amazing how some simple things have come true, but others are lacking. We COULD build a space station like that... but haven't. I still love the movie, but recommend reading the book before watching.
Magnificent!
Poetry in motion. The NASA film of the Apollo 10 Lunar Orbiter circling the moon used the Blue Danube as the background music. Magic
It was a special flight laid on exclusively for Dr. Floyd because of the emergency on the Moon. The US Astronautics Agency paid for the whole thing.
I agree, epic masterpiece, and my No. one forever..............
Pretty good graphics considering its 1968!
I just want to watch the whole movie after watching this.
A MASTERPIECE!!!
ah, you mean the cockpit scene; yeah, the shadows of the spinning station seem to be static. For a moment I thought the shadows weren't moving because the little spaceship was moving in synchronization with the spinning space station, thus making the shadows look static from the crew's point of view.
I do wonder if it might have been easier to have a circular entrance to the docking bay, so the shuttle could come in at any angle without having to line up so precisely.
The pen that's floating in zero gravity was actually glued to a big sheet of glass and spun by hand :)
Note also that Kubrick anticipated seat back TVs in airliners.
my dream is to watch 2001 a space odyssey on the big screen ... that would be mind blowing
In my experience it is a rare bird that writes code for external sale. Most shops that employ programmers import as little code as possible. Every programmer I’ve ever known writes code for in-house use, and then THEY become users of it.
AFAIK CGI shops are no different.
Perhaps *some* import code and have just graphic artists on their stations. As per usual most shops have programmers write up proprietary code, and then they earn their keep by being users of it for profit.
saw the movie, and then learnt to play this on my alto saxophone.
I don't think the shape of the entrance matters as long as it's large enough. Sychronizing the rotation wouldn't be as difficult as getting the correct angle of entry; which would be just as problematic no matter what shape of the entrance.
Someone should remake Revelation Space trilogy using the same equipment they used to make this movie with.
This and Star Wars.....waaaaay ahead of their times.
All I'm asking for is a damn cut!
Fun Fact: The earth is painted mostly blue here, because at the time the movie was made, there was no photograph of earth from outside the planet available.
Yes. Arthur C Clarke consulted NASA engineers to make sure the scenes were technically plausible and realistic (i.e. there is no sound in space)
and that what draws public attention : did he involve in US goverment and NASA's program that time?
anyway, this movie is....MASTERPIECE!! :)
Though it's not true, this movie makes a compelling case for the idea that special effects have only gone downhill.
Great scene? The most beautiful scene in film.
Great Movie
Space dystopia with Karajans Donau