

2001, Part II (and believe me, I could go to part 8, but I’ll pull it back…)
Here’s the thing about the making of 2001, a Space Odyssey that made it a giant leap for sci-fi filmmaking-kind: The entire film was done in analog format. To be clear, that’s zero digital effects. CGI didn’t exist in 1965 and the closest you could get was to animate — cartoon — a ray gun burst or a UFO flying into the ether, but what you most often got was hokey models on strings. Models on strings. And there is one in 2001, which took ages to get just right. In an early sce