2001: A Space Odyssey [HD] Docking sequence

[auerstadt06]

It's not the same movie if you flip it upside down.

[Yurumates]

Brushy brushy

[Deuterium2H]

Another amazing bit of futurism that Kubrick absolutely NAILED way back in 1967, was the flat screen monitors, which are seen on the shuttle, as well as the Discovery. Unfortunately, the stupid sequel messed it up with these ginormous Sony cathode Ray television monitors. Kubrick also foresaw the IPAD. Note the tablets that Dave Bowman and Frank Poole use on the Discovery. Finally, Kubrick envisioned the use of Computer Graphics for the flight controls displays (although they were animations)

[12234d]

1968 my ass

[stephenstatler]

What has amazed me in the past fifteen or twenty years about this movie is that it does not really look all that hokey today. I saw it at the theater when I was 15 YO and I will be 59 in about 55 hours.

[Cyclist0623]

Absolutely nailed it is right. More than just the excellent effects, and creative ides about what earth orbit would be like, he even anticipated the back-of-seat TV screens we now know on airliners today. But I can tell you - nothing, at all, was envisioned like that back in 1968. Visionary.

[TehAuroraWolf]

man Kubrick really loves classical music. Just listen to the classics he uses in A Clockwork Orange.

[kaserei]

good quality but why is it flipped horizontally?

awesome though, this is now on my 2 year old sons' entertainment playlist..

[malows1234]

kubrick's genius=greatest special effect.

Kubrick proves that visual effects and technology mean little. the way he uses wide lenses and slow pans and music in this sequence is more genius than watching 5000 million highly detailed robots duke it out. this is what a true master of the visual can do. use the lenses and camera to his advantage.

[stephenstatler]

This is 44 years old! It does not look too out of date by today's standards of futurism. The spire on top of the Empire State Building in NYC (finished 1931) was originally meant to be a mooring post for cross Atlantic airships. That would make a fantastic simulated docking sequence.

[lutcs86]

What a wonderful scene!!! I consider myself a privileged person, cause many people have no idea or dont even care about how big and how insignificant we are...

[ndolan943redux]

Okay, here's the deal: I like Transformers. Even the cheesy '80's cartoon. I'm a geek. But I also happen to be a Kubrickian geek, and 2001 is just the better movie. As a matter of fact, my three favourites are all Kubricks: this movie, Barry Lyndon and Dr. Strangelove. Fourth place would be The Day the Earth Stood Still (the ORIGINAL). If you're a fan of this movie I recommend it.

[malows1234]

@ndolan943redux ya barry lyndon by stanley is so fucking underrated, it makes me wanna cut my own balls off. you know? and fuck transformers, fuck it in the ass. 

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

just look at the cockpit of the liner,its still not what we have now

[edwin11373]

Lol, there are some posts here comparing this with Transformers. Jeez, that's like comparing finest wine with Kool-Aid.

[rickster100100]

...and to think I had a reservation on Pan Am to the moon. A great film. Thank you, Mr. Kubrick. and thank you, Mr. Juan Trippe for a great airline.......Pan American World Airways.

[heyo825]

Kubrick is my favorite director of all time and this is my favorite movie of all time.

[IHIomelessman]

@loneH8ER these are the 60's man

[MARCHELOlahi]

this is 100000000000 better than the fucking michael bay´s transformers movies

[comraad]

this movie was so ahead of its time

[CHAOSin8bits]

THIS ISN'T THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK!

[nctosc]

@CHAOSin8bits It's not but it works just fine . With that being said the original score is still better . My two cents .

[edwin11373]

Mr. Kubrick gave space a song.

[Mi436]

It s really sad the modern audience prefer shitty movies like Twilight and Michael Bay rather than great movies like 2001.

[IHIomelessman]

@Mi436 modern audience don't understand 2001 they get bored and they say it's a horrible movie, but they don't reallize they sound so ignorant

[Mi436]

They should re-release 2001 in IMAX.:)

[CHAOSin8bits]

@Mi436 mabey even 3D!

[cmhidalgo]

Art and taste have nothing to with talent like this. It's just beauty. This is a music video to me. I hope they bury me with this playing.

[oneputtsteven]

1.2,3... 1,2,3 ...1,2,3

[MrAdvancedAtheist]

I can just imagine what today's kids say when they see this: "What the hell were you people thinking?"

[petrusprimusmaximus]

Kubrick carefully chose a version of 'The Blue Danube' performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan's direction. Be careful when trying to re-mix a masterpiece. The tempo is off.........

[malows1234]

@petrusprimusmaximus hey i know the audio is out of sync a little in this video, but do you in any part feel that its slightly better this way. i am not saying anything agianst the other version (a master like kubrick himself made it after all). but you know what i mean?

[Jerricson098]

better than the tree of life...

[toxboxic]

There is only one thing wrong with this scene. It's backwards but it still looks awesome.

[JCulver1989]

I've never seen anything like this movie; Kubrick absolutely nailed it with the scenes and the score from Straus II.

[The48thRonin]

A cinematic masterpiece and to think it's almost 50 years old!

[Kimakae]

Oh Stanley, please come back to life and marry me...

[AnimeFanatic5602]

What you can't see, because the scene is reversed to avoid copyright issues, is the corporate sponsorship present just in this sequence. Pan Am and IBM both make their debut, as if to reassure people that the future will be full of the familiar as well as the fantastic.

[44excalibur]

@AnimeFanatic5602 Too bad Kubrick had no way of knowing that Pan Am and Bell Telephone would not survive the 1980's, and that Apple would surpass IBM by 2001.

[baghend]

@loneH8ER you have no imagination and no poetry.

I'm sorry for you.

-Bill in Canada

[ligador23]

I was searching "Moustachio" in youtube vecause bored. But I think i prefer watching this old movie I can't even remember my first time watching.

[malows1234]

God, me and my fellow kubrick admirers have one wish.

Take Michael Bay, and give us back Stanley Kubrick. Cinema needs him now more than ever.

[Megafranciso97]

la mejor pelicula de ciencia ficcion de la historia, impresionante, uno de los mejores trabajo de Kubrick siendo tambien de los mejores directores de la historia

[archer49d]

@loneH8ER Oh and Kubrick beat Steve Jobs by 40 years.

[archer49d]

@loneH8ER It's not for everybody, and this is Kubrick's only experimentation with this sort of film. But, what it does do a great job at is visually portraying the words of the novel, that's something hardly any movie made based on a novel has been able to do successfully. I found this particular film incredibly entertaining, more so than 2010.

[malows1234]

@loneH8ER ya your a troll first off, go watch transformers fagit

[Suriel1981]

Frontier: Elite II, anyone? :-)

[AnimeFanatic5602]

There may not be any dialog, or any strong action, but it is in this scene that Kubrick gave us true, undeniable art in its purest form. Recently, I did a project on Stanley Kubrick for a college film course, and knowing the technical aspects on some of these effects in no way detracts from my appreciation of them; it only enhances it. Bravo Mr. Kubrick, you are sorely missed.

[candy1710]

Beautiful job. Thank you.

[MrSunglassesatnight]

MAGNIFICA UNICA , me emociono ...

[thava11kumaran]

this film convert the cinema into another high level...A great work of art..kubrick is a real pure genius..

[INSTANTENET]

it´s not the original. bad

[stephendedalusbc]

Thank you Stanley Kubrick

[michaelpau100]

They really did an astonishingly good job on this film. Just talking about the floating pen is amazing. They took a piece of glass, stuck the pen to it, and just let the attendant go and pick it up.

[archer49d]

Why's it ass backwards (mirrored)?

[ar2014]

@archer49d to avoid trouble with the copyright i think

[TheSarcasticShow]

OK. This whole sequence has no digital effects.

2:10 2:39 5:05

HOW?!?

[TheStealthX]

@TheSarcasticShow 2:10 - easy. The pen was taped to a piece of glass, held in front of hte camera, and rotated slowly

2:39 - see above

5:05 - This one was more complicated. It was a series of VERY intricate models, with a lot of moving parts, held in front of a black sheet with fishing wire (Which doesn't really show up on camera well). Truly though, it is amazing to look at, and ground-breaking for its time.

[TheSarcasticShow]

@TheStealthX Wow. kinda seems a bit easy when you say it like, compared to todays crazy digital effects. But I think it looks better than anything made in the last decade.

[TheStealthX]

@TheSarcasticShow True. Its even better if you consider just how great it looks, and how little they had. Click on the 'Star gate sequence' video on the recommended videos list on this page.

That scene was done with a closeup of chemicals with a cheap torch shone through it

[Vortexetrov]

KARAJAN forever :-)



[ejmaffei1]

Why is this clip flipped horizontally? (Note the backwards "PAN AMERICAN" lettering on clipper ship.)

[TheStealthX]

@ejmaffei1 People do that so they can't be sued for copyright

[ejmaffei1]

@TheStealthX But PanAm went out of business decades ago.

(Also, what about when somebody watches from the toilet via the bathroom mirror? Kidding.)

[TheStealthX]

@ejmaffei1 I don't mean that copyright. I mean the copyright of the film itself. If they flip the image, for some reason that doesn't count as copyright infringment on the movie, so they can get away with it.

[doug2dougsound]

@ejmaffei1  at least they did not get the music backwards

[MrEjidorie]

Level of special effect in A Space Odyssey is amazing even by today's standard. I cannot believe this movie was produced in 1968 when I was a sixth grader.

[unicornakhalteke]

THIS IS GREAT!!!

[a99999ish]

2001: A Space Odyssey ... The Tree of Life

2 of the best masterpieces

EVER

[Nanotech92]

Why's it mirrored?

[GreatGarloo]

Gorgeous sequence. Love how the Pan/Am jet has to turn and match the roll of the space station to dock.

[yomamasapeach]

I like that you actually aren't bored by the movie but more captivated. I watched the new transformers movie. I liked transformers as a child but the constant explosions, killing and CGI just completely ruins it. I am always pissed that for once I can be calm in a movie theatre and yet still entertained.

[fifafreak310258]

This has to be the best film ever made, filled with cryptic message.

[0981462]

It's not boring, it's something MORE than cool or pathetic!

[risharkheart]

such a beautiful scene, Stanley Kubrick is a legend. this kind of visual fx back in the 60s wow!.

[mikeismad61]

Stunning and profound - even after all these years, this is where Mankind's future should be...

[straker2]

This is my favourite scene in the whole movie, I've rewatched this so many times! :) I love the way Kubrick is comparing the graceful rotating station and spinning shuttle to dancers doing a waltz and also how this emphasises the leap from the stone age to the space age by suggesting our technology has gone from barbaric to graceful and elegent and beautiful in its way. The humour of the grip shoes, the idea that space travel is commonplace and the guy's nodded off, all adds to it. Sublime!!

[DetroitLove4U]

The pinnacle of the cinematic esoteric creative enthusiasm of an individual can go a long ways. The Hal 9000, the Monoliths, the planet Jupiter ....... I can't fathom at the time of this film's release that many people grasped the true mysticism of this film well ahead of its time even by today's standards. The Blue Danube is arguably the best piece of musical brilliance & coupled with the cinematic works of a true genius. The originality of this film is poweful - A true odyssey!

[7heReaper]

is it in yet.

[zpguy]

around 40 seconds you will see a space probe. That space probe is made out of a toilet paper dowel. I used to have one like that. You can even see the sented beads still within it.

[deltanalliance]

I love the predictions the movie makes

look at the cabin of the pan am spaceplane.... in flight entertainment! something nonexistent in 1968 but sure as hell popular today

[toolongforyoutoread6]

@deltanalliance what about in-flight movies? Those existed in the 60s.

[deltanalliance]

@toolongforyoutoread6 they did? Don't think personal AVODs on the seat backs did though.

[toolongforyoutoread6]

@deltanalliance Yeah, they had a projector that went to a screen in the front of a plane-(this was back when planes were smaller and had lounges). But this movie still predicted flat-screen TVs, the space shuttle, video phones, credit cards, the International Space Station. It's so scientifically accurate that some of the things we see will probably be invented in the future. The only illogical choice in the movie was the ship that flies to Clavius over the moon-(it was different in the book).

[trinquet76]

Pity that the music in this video was edited, because the original matched the images so well. For the *real* scene, see the link at the right, "2001 Space Odyssey - Blue Danube (fullhd)"..

[SakkaraStudios101]

just think, in the 60s when this came out, none of this was even remotely conceivable (except for maybe NASA and JFK)

[tavoplussam1]

love the pan am logo in the side of the space ship

[fengxuewansui]

 unblieveable

[rockstotheoff]

AudioSwap was used, but it is NOT the same. It might be the same recording, but it has been sped up for whatever reason. Don't know why that needed to be done, or the reason for mirror flipping the image.

[111134531]

@rockstotheoff The reason for the flipping is so that youtube won't take it down for copyright infringement. Don't know about the sound, but it might be for the same reason.

[SpanishInAustralia]

I hope the finaltial crisis don´t stop the conquest of the space waching this video I will sign anything to go there even is won way travel I don´t care there is not to much to see here for my

[pat1981lux]

Ok it may be realistic but it's still boring

[SpanishInAustralia]

@pat1981lux is boring because you are waching it from the sreen of you house I think in real life it will be awesome

[Makaan]

Somehow reminds me of those moments in the first Homeworld pc game when you were gathering resources and you just watched the ships slowly maneuvering around the resource clouds.

[1408bladerunner]

Fucking epic



[DeafMuteZombie]

1968 is that right these great special effect for such an old movie. i got lost at the end but id watch it again and again and agian...

[markhinr]

@DeafMuteZombie I saw the movie when it came out 40+ years ago. It was astounding! It was a ground breaking epic at the time with the first truly realistic "special effects". I doubt that any form of CGI was available at that time so I expect it was all done by filming scale models. Quite a feat.

[DeafMuteZombie]

@markhinr was star wars out yet i wonder?

[markhinr]

@DeafMuteZombie Star Wars came out 9 or 10 years later, with the advent of CGI, so it was another giant technological leap ahead of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The original Star Trek TV series came out at about the same time as 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you've seen reruns of the early episodes, the "special effects" are very primitive compared to post CGI films or TV programs.

[DeafMuteZombie]

@markhinr I wish i could get one of those space suit is 2001: A space oddesey....

[jamesmlarge]

@markhinr There was no CGI in Star Wars. CGI was crude in the early 70's—far from photo-realistic.

They made StarWars the old-fashioned way with glass paintings, optical effects, and detailed miniature models. They used computers to control the motion of physical cameras and physical models which is how they put more ships in a scene, and moved them in more realistic ways than 2001. Both movies though were just jam packed with gorgeous detail in every corner of the screen.

[jamesmlarge]

@markhinr There was no CGI in Star Wars. CGI was crude in the early 70's—far from photo-realistic.

They made StarWars the old-fashioned way with glass paintings, optical effects, and detailed miniature models. They used computers to control the motion of physical cameras and physical models which is how they put more ships in a scene, and moved them in more realistic ways than 2001. Both movies though were just jam packed with gorgeous detail in every corner of the screen.

[markhinr]

@jamesmlarge Thank you for the correction. You're right. The first Star Wars came out in 1977, too early for sophisticated CGI.

[rogerpenna]

@jamesmlarge

I would say CGI for motion pictures was NON EXISTANT in the early 70s. Wasnt Tron the first movie to use CGI?

Anyway, check The Last Starfighter... its from the 80s, it has CGI... and its NOT photorealistic... a PS2 game is more photorealistic.

[WhisperingRelaxer]

@LUXAETERNA6603 Sausages

[LUXAETERNA6603]

@WhisperingRelaxer Sorry, that wasn't funny.

[WhisperingRelaxer]

@LUXAETERNA6603 I have to disagree.

[LUXAETERNA6603]

@WhisperingRelaxer Maybe that one was a little funny . . .

[WhisperingRelaxer]

@LUXAETERNA6603 2001 is about mans quest to investigate a bucket of sausages found on the moon.

[tsgeneric1]

Have you noticed that this video is inverted left to right / right to left?

Look at the text on the chairs and her shoes - it's backwards.

[krixxx888]

@tsgeneric1 also music is not synchronized as in original

[toyruss]

@tsgeneric1 Yes, it is. I thought I was seeing things too.

[Powgow]

I wish i was an astronaut

[Sandym651]

If you think this is boring, then you're a RACIST

[Vladdyboy]

@Sandym651

lol wut?

[QuantumProphet]

@Sandym651 LOL, I am yawning, and I am no racist I love nigger and cracker pussy all the same

[twotonguestalking713]

@Sandym651 didn't expect that lol

[RockGod614]

@Sandym651 first, this movie wasn't meant to be entertaining, it was meant to dazzle people with revolutionary techniques. im NOT dissing the movie in anyway, its really well made. second, in what way does not thinking this movie is entertaining make you racist, you made yourself a stupid troll by commenting that, kubrick would be disappointed by you. 

[Sandym651]

@RockGod614 What I meant was that while it's not meant to entertain, I find it hard to believe that someone could watch this without recognizing how well done it is and how awe inspiring it must have been to watch it in 1968 before man even went to space. I don't literally mean that someone could be considered racist for not liking this that was a joke.

[baghend]

@Sandym651 Sorry, but the Russians were in space in 1961- Yuri Gargarin, a Soviet Cosmonaut in an orbital flight. They were years ahead of the Yanks, who were still using captured german WW 2 V-2's and sending mice up about 40 miles.

amazingly- the Yanks got in gear and had men on the moon in 8 years.

The last time they had anything to feel proud about.

Down hill ever since.

-Bill

[malows1234]

@RockGod614 die you fagit. you deserve to die. dont ever say its ok to dislike a stanley kubrick film. CAUSE IT FUCKING ISNT. nobody on this fucking planet is allowed to dislike a stanley kubrick film. somethings are opinion, but kubrick's films go beyond that. even if you hate the guys films or hate 2001, you have to call it a masterpeice just because of the visual genius that director stanley kubrick imbues it with. GO FUCK YOURSELF, your not a true stanley kubrick fan. kubrick would hate you.

[mindarinas]

@Sandym651 xD

[Stefandurrr]

@Sandym651 Took the words right outta my mouth.

[neilzep]

@Sandym651 when this is the top comment,mankind is losing it faster than I thought.

[Sandym651]

ass