2001: A Space Odyssey, retro 1950s Version

[jmj4879]

C'est amusant !!

[4thtroika]

Lovely.

[buick1955]

Nice Job !

[johnmburt1960]

Brilliant.  The best "premake" I've ever seen.

[jackartwinn]

very cool!

[TheBeast6664]

is there a name to this song? if so what is it??

[mickcooper73]

@TheBeast6664 yeah its a waltz by johann strauss - the blue danube waltz

[GoldLeader881]

If only there was a docking sequence...

[coredor]

Very clever;)

[MrBloodbunny]

very well done!! at the beginning of this video, i didn't realize it's a cartoon...

[cyberlarry7]

I LOVED what you did - just fantastic. Great using footage from Disney's MAN IN SPACE series - you did a superb job of lengthening the shots & editing them together in time to the Blue Danube music. This really shows the giant leap forward in visual effects made between the 1950s and Kubrick's benchmark film. Many thanks for doing this!

[52joan]

very cool! and a great idea! its been wonderful watchun the fx progress!

[hjhspeedway]

Well done!

Watch our "STAR WARS ___ 2001: A Space Odyssey" docking sequence.

[phoneyaddress]

Very cool ! Thanks

[StarScreamCyp]

It's amazing how in the 50s nothing was done, but they had the idea and vision for the space age. I love 50's and 60's Sci Fi, I also love 2001 its my all time fave Sci Fi movie. I am dedicating my house interior in 60's Sci Fi style to the movie and Stanley Kubrick. I also love Strauss 'Blue Danube', its like the scene would not be the same without the'Blue Danube'.

[cosmiclight]

Aside from cartoon images of the astronauts here, some images over the earth, early space station are art works of the great space artist Chesley Bonestell. For those that have missed the history, see Forbidden Planet with Ann Francis and Robbie the Robot. The backdrops are all Bonestell’s artwork. See Wiki on him. It is written in history that technical space art is responsible for promoting our first space exploration. Mark Seibold , Retired IT Tech, Artist-Astronomy Educator, Portland Oregon

[thecollector1138]

It's watching cool stuff like this that makes me wish sci fi had been taken more seriously in the 50s (in film I mean). Seeing a high brow 50s sci fi movie in the vain of 2001 would have been great, especially in the design aesthetic. Thankfully, we at least got Forbidden Planet! PS: if anyone knows of any other bigger budgeted thoughtful 50s sci fi movies I missed, let me know. I'd love to see them! Awesome vid!

[boriato]

@thecollector1138 Clarke & Kubrick got many ideas from Conquest of Space: families strained by separation, magnetic shoes, yucky space food, an astronaut killed on EVA to repair an antenna, a crewman cracking up & trying to kill the crew (like HAL), and other themes from the Jupiter Mission, in context of a mission to Mars. One line in the film is: "...Mars, or Jupiter, or Infinity." Remnds me of a parallel between that mission to Mars, and 2001's mission to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

[thecollector1138]

@boriato Thank you very much for the help! I've checked out the trailer, and Conquest of Space looks like a film I'd enjoy. Definately going to seek it out now!

[boriato]

@thecollector1138 You may also like George Pal's earlier film: Destination Moon. From '40's, totally dated, but cool screenplay by Heinlein (author of Starship Troopers & other stuff), colorful spacesuits like in 2001 (suspect Kubrick got the idea there), a pretty good spacewalk scene, authentic (to what we thought back then) first-steps-on-moon scene, and a moving comment on Earth's blue-green vulnerability that probably inspired Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech.

[timparcival]

Great idea! Earth vs. The Space Kubricks or something.

[ThrilloVanHouten]

My God.

[gatomjp]

Love this!

[pessimist94]

its true, 2001 a space odyssey looked way better than the science fiction of the 50s, but frankly, 2001 looked better than the any of the science fiction of the 60s and 70s. compare 2001 to the space scenes in Jame bond: you only live twice (which came out a year later) and you'll get a feel for how innovative kubrick was. He would have made it look good no matter what time period. I think it looks better than the sci fi of today.

[TheCineMatt]

this came out in '68

[ItsAHedgehog]

Very cool! I love the early space age images and the music, of course, is just classic. Well done!

[candr]

Think yoou did a excellent job there.

[0000syu]

とっても興味深く示唆に溢れる映像でした。2001年は本来、数­年違うのでしょうけども、こうなったとしても全然おかしくなかっ­たのですね！やはり2001年が生まれたのは、何かの間違い・奇­跡だったのですねー。

[dinguedutitanic]

c'est vachement bien foutu ! bravo

[Eeyore3061]

It's being done. Check out the Man Conquers Space project. Some of the teasers are up here on YouTube but the website has more up-to-date info.

[resqspc]

Bravo! Well done.

[bremneshatten]

Think this is great. Novel juxtaposition.

[tarnik101]

@Kre8ivity I was redoing the scene with images from a 1950s Disney film. Read.

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

@tarnik101 - 1930s CCCP outer space movie you might be interested in,

/watch?v=rh9Nh64zRkM

'The Space Voyage'

[uklandman]

@Kre8ivity He has merely given it a retro makeover to how the film may have looked made 10 years before 1968.

[TheDrokonas]

@Kre8ivity well it seems that you don't know how to read a description, as he clearly states that this it what it WOULD look like IF it was made in the 1950s, not that it WAS made in the 50s.

[Kre8ivity]

@TheDrokonas

OK TheDork

you taught me my lesson

touche

[buttdagger]

@Kre8ivity not sure if troll or stupid.

[Kre8ivity]

@buttdagger

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lol

[Wolfreys44]

@Kre8ivity take the time to read the description before making retarded comments

[helloiamfreeloj]

@Kre8ivity

Your name is really ironic for what you just said lol.

[Minxdini]

Well done..great  idea..

[MichaelJavert]

Okay, this is not 2001 Space Odyssey. This is the Blue Danube Waltz.

[jeffamarie]

Then it's a good thing it wasn't made in the 50's!

[sclogse1]

@jeffamarie

The fifties sci fi were very beautiful in their abstract look...paintings come to life...at least the best films were.

[maxpowz]

That's Disney's Man in Space series, shown on the Disneyland TV show in 1955. All three episodes are up on Youtube. Good Job!

[RideMyBMW]

That's Disney's Man in Space series . maxpowz

Yup, produced by Nazi mad scientist Werner VonBraun himself...fu&%in shamelsss.

[bladerunnerchile]

well done

[modelermark172]

Very enjoyable! I was born in 1959, and I was almost 10 when I first saw "2001: A space Odessey."

To this day, I cannot hear the Blue Danube waltz, and not see spacecraft in my mind's eye!

I had planned to rent the movie to show my own son on his 10th birthday what we thought 2001 would look like when I was his age.

We never did. His 10th birthday was in September 2001, and other things got in the way . . . .

I have added this to my favorites. Good job!

[Stationmaster]

The future ain't what it used to be - Yogi Berra

[barryperrins]

Great vid  and well made.

[ZemplinTemplar]

Cool ! :-D 2001 still is believable futuristic after over 40 years, but this version is downright retro indeed... :-) Good work !