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From: nobi@mtuxo.UUCP (m.juliar)
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Subject: Re: 2001 question
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 09:53:49 EST
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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.