falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) (03/02/86)
I have a question of my own about 2001. The original was filmed in "Cinerama" (not cinemascope). This means that three projectors, in sync, were used to project three films onto three adjoining screens -- the audience was surrounded about 180 degrees by the film (I have a friend who saw it this way when it first came out). The film was eventually converted to cinemascope, which is how we see it now when it gets re-run. The question is: Is the film ever shown in the original format anymore? If so, where can we see it? -ed falk, sun microsystems
nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar) (03/03/86)
Re: "2001" in Cinerama. 2001 was made and shown in Cinerama when it was released in Spring 1968. However, it did not use the old 3-projector technique to throw the image on the screen. It used a single projector with a special lens, probably a very wide anamorphic one, to throw the image at a screen that was surely not 180 degrees, or even 90 degrees. I would guess it was under 45 degrees. I doubt anyone has the equipment or auditorium to project the film in its original mode today for the public. By the way, are you aware that a week or two after 2001 opened, Kubrick cut several minutes from its running time? One cut scene I think was of one of the astronauts sitting at an electronic organ on board, earphones over his head, playing what for him was apparently very enjoyable music. You, in the audience, don't really know that because only the astronaut can hear it through his earphones. Kubrick also cut some other things to move the action along: opening and closing of the bay pod doors and the movement of the one-man pods out of Discovery.
dday@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (03/03/86)
In article <3306@sun.uucp> falk@sun.UUCP writes: >I have a question of my own about 2001. The original was filmed in >"Cinerama" (not cinemascope). >The question is: Is the film ever shown in the original format anymore? If >so, where can we see it? A friend in LA told me that it is shown for a week or two every year at the Cinerama Dome in LA. I don't know when it's next scheduled. I'd love to see it! -- UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!dday Dennis Doubleday CSNet: dday@umcp-cs University of Maryland ARPA: dday@brillig.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742 Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-6154
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/04/86)
In article <3306@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes: >I have a question of my own about 2001. The original was filmed in >"Cinerama" (not cinemascope). . . . The film was eventually converted to >cinemascope, which is how we see it now when it gets re-run. > >The question is: Is the film ever shown in the original format anymore? If >so, where can we see it? This rumor is incorrect. Only two dramatic films were made in Cinerama: "How the West Was Won" and "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm". MGM was supposed to make two more Cinerama features, but the utter failure of "The Brothers Grimm" killed that contract. (Also inherent difficulties with the process: one of the directors on "How the West Was Won" moaned that Cinerama made it impossible to get any closer to an actor than a waist-level shot; real close-ups couldn't be done.) There *was* a change made to "2001" shortly after its release. Stanley Kubrick cut 17 minutes out of it, presumably to make it play a little faster. -- Peter Reiher reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) (03/05/86)
In article <1357@mtuxo.UUCP> nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar) writes: > > By the way, are >you aware that a week or two after 2001 opened, Kubrick cut several >minutes from its running time? I remember seeing 2001 when it first opened in Pittsburgh. As I recall, there was an intermission about 1.5 hours into the movie. Unfortunately, I do not recall where the intermission was. I also remember seeing it again several years later and commenting that it seemed to be alot shorter.
ebm@ingres.berkeley.edu.ARPA (Eli Messinger) (03/07/86)
In article <1357@mtuxo.UUCP> nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar) writes: >Re: "2001" in Cinerama. > >2001 was made and shown in Cinerama when it was released in >Spring 1968. However, it did not use the old 3-projector >technique to throw the image on the screen. It used a single >projector with a special lens, probably a very wide anamorphic >one, to throw the image at a screen that was surely not 180 >degrees, or even 90 degrees. I would guess it was under 45 degrees. >I doubt anyone has the equipment or auditorium to project the >film in its original mode today for the public. Well, the Cinerama theater in Seattle certainly has the auditorium and curved screen to show Cinerama films. Whether or not they still have the special lenses around is another question. BTW, as Bill Rabkin once wrote in the University of Washington `Daily', (to paraphrase) "When God sees a film in Seattle, he sees it at the Cinerama." ... gt
leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (03/09/86)
>I remember seeing 2001 when it first opened in Pittsburgh. >As I recall, there was an intermission about 1.5 hours into >the movie. Unfortunately, I do not recall where the >intermission was. Just after Poole and Bowman are discussing what to do about HAL in the pod (under HAL's watchful eye).