2001, a space odyssey [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer presents a Stanley Kubrick production ; directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
Other Titles: 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture).
Edition: Digitally restored and remastered ed.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2001.
ISBN: 0790760118
Description: 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Series: Stanley Kubrick collection
Subject(s): Twenty-first century Drama.
Computers Drama.
Space vehicles Drama.
Human-computer interaction Drama.
Science fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Editor, Ray Lovejoy ; director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth ; music, Aram Khatchaturian, György Ligeti, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss.
Performers: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: G.
Notes: English or French language soundtrack (5.1 surround) with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
" ... preserving the 'scope' aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition. Enhanced for widescreen TVs"--Container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.
Special features include: New 2000 digital master from restored elements ; soundtrack newly remastered in dolby digital 5.1 ; interactive menus ; theatrical trailer ; scene access.
Summary: A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
