There also aren’t any keyboards to be seen (and in the high-tech spacecraft full of computers going to Jupiter, the astronauts are writing with pens on clipboards presciently, no slide rules and no tape are shown-though there is one moment when a printout that looks awfully like a punched card is produced).
2000 SPACE ODYSSEY HAL MOVIE
(Both had actually been invented a few years before the movie was made, but neither was widely known.) And, yes, in the movie there weren’t any touchscreens-or mice. To be fair, cockpits today still have plenty of buttons-but the centerpiece is now a display. But otherwise, it’s lots and lots of mechanical buttons. But just when I was getting concerned, there was a bone thrown in the air that morphed into a spacecraft, and pretty soon there was a rousing waltz-and a big space station turning majestically on the screen.Īnother difference is in how the computers are controlled. I was confused, and frankly a little bored. But then what was going on? Those weren’t space scenes. It started with an impressive extraterrestrial sunrise. And to this day, I remember sitting in a plush seat and eagerly waiting for the curtain to go up, and the movie to begin. I’d been dropped off for a matinee, and was pretty much the only person in the theater. So in the early summer of 1968 there I was, the first time I’d ever been in an actual cinema (yes, it was called that in the UK). Then on Ap(May 15 in the UK), the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released-and I was keen to see it. And I was eagerly studying everything I could to do with space. For the first time, a space probe had recently landed on another planet (Venus).
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