2001 A Space Odyssey

Series of still shots revealing the dawn of civilization

A tribe of Pleistocene herbivore man appears

A leopard leaps and kills one or the tribe

Two rival bands of ape-like tribes establish territorial rights over a water hole

During the night the animals sleep closely together and huddle in fear as a leopard lurks nearby

At dawn a huge monolith appears in the den

The tribe reacts with fear to the monolith and then huddle around it and embrace it

During the afternoon the leader of the tribe searches for food. He finds a bone and uses it to smash a skeleton-discovering tools.

The man uses his new tool to kill a tapir.

The clan shares the tapir as the sun sets.

The next day the man-apes are approached at the waterhole and use their new weapon to fight off another tribe.

The leader man-ape flings his new tool victoriously into the air.

EPISODE TWO: The Lunar Journey (2000)

The tossed weapon from the last episode spins into a twirling space satellite.

Travel through space somewhere between Earth and the Moon. Satellites and space shuttles fly by.

Siting of the space shuttles’ destination, the Space Station 5 space way-station.

Interior of space shuttle. Dr. Floyd retrieves a floating pen and walks down a corridor.

The space ship docks with the space station in

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n by futuristic man in the year 2000. This monolith definitely represents a higher order, sent from somewhere on Jupiter. In episode three, Dave discovers the search for the monolith is the real purpose of his Mission. In episode four, Dave, who is the only one who survives the mission to Jupiter, is transported through some kind of cosmic time warp and ends up in a hotel room where he goes through a rapid aging process. When he is bedridden as a 100-year-old invalid, a huge monolith mirroring the other two appears mysteriously at the edge of his bed. He is transformed by this mysterious monolith into an embryo. The embryo is a transcendence of his physical self. Now, as the Star Child, he orbits near earth representing man’s ability to learn and use tools to understand his environment. However, the film plays with the idea that the tools he discovers and uses have a twofold purpose. On the one hand, they can be used for good, like the Pleistocene man-ape killing a tapir for food. On the other hand, they may be used for no good, like the man-apes killing other man-apes with the tool. Sounds and imagery are used to narrate this film, which contains barely 40 minutes of dialogue. For example, when we switch from the Plei
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