Tuesday, August 24, 2021

120 years of faking space travel for the movies

Starting at about 2:42: "Take this shot of a flying saucer in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). It's clearly just a toy on a string. But that would all change drastically in 1968 with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now that humans had actually gone to space, Stanley Kubrick needed to redefine what futuristic life in space would look like, and he did so by pushing the limits of visual effects."

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