A single frame of film took four minutes to produce, so the Stargate sequence took months and months. These were turned into controlled blurs – like if you leave a camera shutter open while shooting cars at night, you get streaks of light.
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It ran for 24 hours a day, taking photographs of 15ft-tall artworks, backlit and full of patterns and coloured gels. The family sold it to the Academyįor the psychedelic sequence at the end, when Keir seems to pass into a different dimension, we had to invent a whole new type of camera: the Slit Scan, a giant machine nearly 20x30ft. There’s too many things changing every day.” A teacher was tutoring Kubrick's daughter and he paid him with the Aries spacecraft. They analysed it for two weeks and said: “There’s no way, Stanley. He asked IBM to make an algorithm to help with the production process. He was a genius but even he was right at his limit. So quality control was utmost in Kubrick’s mind, but it was expensive and time-consuming. Since the film was shot on 70mm Cinerama, and would play on screens that could be 100ft wide, every irregularity would be seen. Everything had to happen in front of the camera. There were no computer-generated effects in those days. Then one day Kubrick said: “Why don’t you shoot the moonbus landing?” I was moving up. I was in close contact with NASA advisors, and one of the other designers, Harry Lange, had worked on real spacecraft for Wernher von Braun. I would design lunar landscapes and miniature spaceships, painting on cladding and adding exhaust markings to fuselages. I was only 23 but Kubrick kept giving me more and more complicated tasks. I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of 2001. But in the 50 years since, the film has had a profound effect, particularly the idea of making contact with any intelligent civilisations out there. If anybody had known how difficult it was going to be, it would probably never have been approved. The production cost $10m and was like a huge research and development project to get to the moon. But not at the premiere.ĭouglas Trumbull, visual effects supervisor Someone in San Francisco even ran right through the screen screaming: “It’s God!” So they came up with a new poster that said: “2001 – the ultimate trip!” I’m sure I must have watched it while I was high. But a few months into the release, they realised a lot of people were watching it while smoking funny cigarettes. Lots of people walked out of the premiere, including Rock Hudson. “I fink you know what the problem is,” he’d say in a cockney accent, “just as well as I do.” Eventually, he turned to the first assistant director, who was from east London, and said: “You do the voice for the boys.” So Hal sounded like an eastender at first. Kubrick didn’t know the exact voice he wanted for Hal, the computer that goes rogue, but we needed something to work with for shooting. The film was very prescient about the dangers of AI. ‘I’m sure I must have watched it while I was high’ … Keir Dullea as Dave Bowman.
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