Nearly 50 years after its release, here's a collection of 23 amazing behind-the-scenes photos from the making of
2001: A Space Odyssey. The photographs recently giving light to the combination of precision, craftsmanship, and behind-the-scenes silliness that went into creating Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece.
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The majority of filming took place at MGM Borehamwood, Elstree and Shepperton Studios in England. |
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Stanley Kubrick was an extremely hands-on director. |
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The film opens with a group of shrieking apes in the 'Dawn of Man' sequence. |
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William Sylvester plays Dr. Heywood R Floyd in the second 'act' of the film. |
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Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star in the third 'act' as two astronauts on a voyage to Jupiter. |
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The astronauts take a break on-set. |
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Kubrick and Sylvester enjoy a cigarette break. |
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Edwina Carroll, Penny Brahms and Heather Downham as stewardesses onboard the space station. |
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Kubrick asked companies to provide designs for futuristic products to be used in the movie, such as this prototype car. |
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The wooden construction that would form the film's Moonbus vehicle. |
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NASA engineers were consulted during the design process for the Discovery One spacecraft. |
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Kubrick collaborated with science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke to create the screenplay, based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel. |
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Science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke on the film set. |
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Kubrick and his team employed numerous photography techniques during filming, including "slit-scan", which blurs and distorts the image. |
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Despite hundreds of people working behind the scenes, only 27 crew members were credited at the end of the film. |
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Constructing the rotating centrifuge for the Discovery spaceship cost $750,000. |
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Gary Lockwood, a long-time fan of Kubrick's work, started out his film career as a stuntman. |
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The primary coloured space suits were used onboard the Discovery, along with a fourth green suit. |
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Front projection, where pre-filmed footage is projected onto a reflective surface, was used for a lot of the outer space scenes. |
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An EVA (extra-vehicular activity) pod, carried on board the Discovery One spacecraft. |
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Dr Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) leaves the spacecraft to replace a faulty unit, but is attacked by malfunctioning artificially intelligent computer HAL 9000 and sent hurtling into outer space. |
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Dr Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) has to enter HAL's logic and memory center to disconnect its higher brain functions. |
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The "star child": Dullea's character is transformed into this open-eyed fetus at the end of the film. |
(via
Telegraph)
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