![]() I always liked this theory (cinema screen = the monolith) and it is further supported by the fact that the droning music that plays in the overture is the same piece that always accompanies the monolith on the screen. So if it was meant to be a black screen, we would know. On the contrary we have tons of anecdotal and eyewitness testimony of the deleted scenes of 2001, even though the film only screened a few times with those scenes intact, and all footage was later destroyed. If kubrick specifically wanted to break tradition for this specific element, we would have some evidence, like projectionist/audience testimony or projection instructions. That is why the MGM logo is after the leader, not before it, because this is the moment the curtains open.Įvery 70mm screening of 2001 I have been to in the last 15 years (granted this is not during the original theatrical run, but still), the projectionist plays the overture and intermission with the curtains closed, lights dimmed but not off, in the traditional roadshow way. Unless the overture and intermission contained images or frames instead of leader (as a commenter elsewhere noted this was also occasionally done), all of these roadshow pictures played their music with curtains closed. ![]() Projectionists at the time would have ALWAYS played overtures and/or intermissions with the curtains closed, to do otherwise would have been the exception, not the rule. If Kubrick wanted otherwise there would be a wealth of eyewitness accounts and instructions from MGM or Kubrick (much like the Barry Lyndon instructions recently leaked). ![]() Yes we do know this for a fact, basically because we have no evidence of the contrary.
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