OPENING IMAGE: Earth viewed from space.
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 the blackness of space.
An elevator with Floyd comes to its floor. The first dialogue in the film is heard.
Customs area of the space station. Dialogue between Floyd, an attendant and a security office.
Passenger lounge where Floyd awaits entry, talks to his daughter on a Bell Picturephone and speaks with Russian scientists.
Dr. Floyd on another spaceship where he is given dinner, and uses a toilet.
Dr. Floyd gives a briefing to other scientists at Clavius. A monolith has been discovered on the moon.
A moon bus trip to the moon excavation site by Floyd and other...