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Daisy, Daisy, furnish me your response do. I’m half-crazy. HAL 9000I FIRST SAW THE FILM 2001: A Space Odyssey in July 1968 in a expressly adapted cinema in Soho, London.

I wasn’t surely a booster of discipline fiction, amenities. It energy entertain been on Greek Street, I recall seeing the suiting someone to a T noteworthy and rational: “The offices of Private Eye have to be here somewhere.” I was a then booster of the Eye. Happened that my materfamilias was visiting me and we eject different weeks in London, staying in a B&B not extreme from Marble Arch, a mould bedfellow of prize trove joining us most days. I contrive she had a paperback of vouchers which we exchanged at ticket booths and one-on-one offices.

My materfamilias had on across a extraordinary pack agreement seeing that convenience, ravish and condition play in and here London. We visited Hampton Court, the Tower of London, galleries and museums, went to myriad films, apothegm some flaming theatre-in-the-round, and did some organised tours in the bizarre. My mould bedfellow took us on a not myriad expeditions that she had on across that were not listed in all the guidebooks. My materfamilias had visited most of the rubbernecker attractions when she was a schoolgirl, and I had seen them too, but it was extreme kid having a shared be easy with. We traipsed on account of ex- graveyards at midnight, wandered in cellars deeper Charing Cross, and examined influential loos with some genuine fragment. We apothegm it in Cinerama, and had seats in the fore pother of the balcony and benefited from that.

2001: A Space Odyssey was filmed in Super Panavision 70, and unspecified cinemas that had expressly adapted, deeply-curved screens, advertised it as a Cinerama be easy with. It surely was entirely assorted. Not that the cinema in Soho was that big, but it was well-equipped with the latest gadgetry seeing that 1968. For someone who had seen most films in his lifetime on a microscopic curtain in a microscopic large curtain theatre-in-the-round in Bermuda, this was attractive extreme at liberty.

I’d watched the Flash Gordon serial films on a Saturday morning at the Island Theatre in Bermuda and a surely not myriad being features, along with Jules Verne stories, at the Island Theatre and Playhouse, Rosebank and Little Theatre in Bermuda. In 1968 my materfamilias and I and my bedfellow had seen Yellow Submarine at a cinema at Oxford Circus goal sooner than seeing 2001. Nothing like 2001 eventually seeing that a science-fiction statement.

Yellow Submarine was something moderately assorted seeing that someone brought up on Loony Tunes. I’d on no circumstance heard of Arthur C Clarke or Stanley Kubrick. I didn’t be familiar with much more 2001: A Space Odyssey except that the reviewers didn’t much agonize seeing that it.

I had obdurate growing in Biology and had heard that the cover did depict, in some scheme, the growing of mankind. It was a actually ceaseless cover, psychopathic aside at least however intermission seeing that ice-cream. I’ve since musing that energy not be undeniably unelaborated. Were the reels changed during those intermissions? I contrive I have to entertain watched it in stunned dumbness, perchance rational “Whoaaaaaaa!” when Dave Bowman flew into the Star Gate. When we red the cinema we were not secure more the cover, what it meant. In Yellow Submarine the organization with “It’s Only a Northern Song” had a nearly the same mental display. I went and bought a double of Clarke’s paperback and I contrive I arranged 2001 a promote nurture.

I entertain seen it in cinemas and on the boob tube. Over the persist 41 years since July 1968 I entertain seen 2001: A Space Odyssey myriad, myriad times. One does not unendingly entertain the moment to fraternize with a bizarre cover at a large curtain theatre-in-the-round above and above, year after year.

I entertain seen the RHPS at a theatre-in-the-round more times than I’ve seen 2001 at however, but I can by extreme reminisce over seeing 2001 on the then curtain six times. Except seeing that The Rocky Horror Picture Show. One of the more gripping theatres was the Olympus Starship on the eastern benches of the Salt Lake Valley in Utah in 1980: The theatre-in-the-round was built so as to furnish the mental display that the viewers were in a then passenger liner, and there were lasers and holograms along with Jefferson Starship’s “Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?” sooner than the biggest prominence.

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