Why this film still holds up in the 2020’s: Kubrick insisted on shooting EVERYTHING on camera originals. Everything was on the first generation. He refused to have generation loss. It was like the “Abbey Road” of movies.
2001’s “optical” process (as I understand it):
shoot an element behind a matte
mark the film frame
take the film out and put it in cold storage
build/paint the set that fills the outer part of the matte using the matte as reference
Put the film back in and shoot the other element of the shot
Why this film still holds up in the 2020’s: Kubrick insisted on shooting EVERYTHING on camera originals. Everything was on the first generation. He refused to have generation loss. It was like the “Abbey Road” of movies.
2001’s “optical” process (as I understand it):
shoot an element behind a matte
mark the film frame
take the film out and put it in cold storage
build/paint the set that fills the outer part of the matte using the matte as reference
Put the film back in and shoot the other element of the shot
develop the film