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2001: And The Curved Screen
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This article first appeared in
..in 70mm
The 70mm Newsletter |
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Issue 57
- June 1999 |
"2001" in 1,85:1
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Book front cover.
Quote from the book "Stanley Kubrick by Vincent LoBrutto" Faber
and Faber 1997:
"Originally Kubrick wanted to shoot 2001 in the wide-screen
format of 1,85. In one of their countless technical discussions,
Bob Gaffney talked to Kubrick about other possibilities.
"I said, You've
got to make it visceral. If you are going to put people in space there's
nothing bigger than 70mm wide screen to do that and Cinerama is even
better because it would be curved,
and he agreed".
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More in 70mm reading:
Stanley Kubrick's "2OO1: A
Space Odyssey" in Super Panavision 70
Bob Gaffney
"2001: A Space Odyssey" in the presence of Douglas Trumbull
There Were Giants in the Land
Interview
with Leon Vitali
2001
Credits
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"2001" and the flat screen
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Magazine front cover.
Quote from a Douglas Trumbull interview in Cinefantastique June 1994:
"The film was shot in
Super Panavision for projection on the curved
Cinerama screen but the unique format wasn't accounted for during the
years of production. During the entire production, we never once viewed
footage on a curved screen or in the format.
What would happen is we'd shoot in 65mm, but the lab would generate 35mm
anamorphic prints for us to look at on a small flat screen. We never saw
it in a Cinerama theatre. It wasn't until the very, very end of
photography, or maybe once during production, that I think Kubrick took a
couple of 70mm prints and went down to a 70mm theatre to see how it
looked. So, in a sense, the movie was not made with a curved screen in
mind. In some of the Cinerama theatres there were a serious projection
problem, because the projection booths were mounted up too high and you
had a horrible sort of curved, keystoning effect: the titles would come
out badly curved and it looked very distorted".
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