| Description |
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
Region 1; letterbox widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Cast |
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan ; HAL 9000 voice: Douglas Rain. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; editor, Ray Lovejoy ; production designer, Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, Tony Masters. |
| Note |
Based on the novel "The sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: G. |
| Summary |
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path. Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole head toward Jupiter on the space ship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission. |
| Note |
Special features: Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood; theatrical trailer. |
| Awards |
Academy Awards, 1969: Oscar - Best Effects, Special Visual Effects (Stanley Kubrick) |
| Language |
English and French; with subtitles in English, French and Spanish. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
HAL (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Drama.
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Astronauts -- Drama.
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Interplanetary voyages -- Drama.
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Computer system failures -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction films.
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Science fiction films.
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Action and adventure films.
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Fantasy films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Kubrick, Stanley.
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Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008.
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Dullea, Keir, 1936-
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Lockwood, Gary, 1937-
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Sylvester, William, 1922-1995.
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Richter, Dan.
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Rossiter, Leonard, 1926-1984.
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Tyzack, Margaret, 1931-2011.
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Beatty, Robert, 1909-1992.
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Sullivan, Sean, 1921-1985.
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Rain, Douglas.
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Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
Sentinel.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Polaris (Firm)
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Stanley Kubrick Productions.
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Turner Entertainment Co.
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Two thousand one, a space odyssey |
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a space odyssey |
| ISBN |
0780676149 |
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9780780676145 |
| Standard No. |
883929187522 |
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