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2001: A Space Odyssey

by Stanley Kubrick · film · 1968

kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with arthur c. clarke, developed alongside clarke's novel and loosely based on clarke's 1948 short story "the sentinel." the film was shot in super panavision 70 at mgm-british studios in borehamwood and shepperton studios, and included a 30-ton centrifuge built by an aerospace company and douglas trumbull's slit-scan machine, which ran 24 hours a day for months to produce the stargate sequence. the screenplay draws from clarke's "the sentinel" written in 1948 for a bbc competition and first published in 1951.

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    TMDB · 2001: A Space Odyssey· archive

    “Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick · Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth · Editor: Ray Lovejoy · Screenplay: Arthur C. Clarke · Director: Stanley Kubrick”
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    Wikipedia · 2001: A Space Odysseysingle-source· article

    “2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily "The Sentinel" (1951) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953). The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain, and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.”
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    Wikidata · 2001: A Space Odyssey· archive

    “1968 film by Stanley Kubrick”