| Description | Four copies of a screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke, with dialogue, details of actions and character movements. The screenplay is divided into 4 sections A, B, C and D, reflecting the chapters of the finished film a) Dawn of Man, b) Journey to the Moon and investigation of the Monolith and c) the voyage of the Discovery to Saturn [in the film the planet was changed to Jupiter] and D) an encounter with another monolith. Each section has its own page numbering. The screenplay includes a narrator describing some of the events in the film.
All four copies are bound, one has the number 205 on the top right hand of the front cover, while the others are 240, 241 and 253. The text is dated using American style dating Month/Day/ Year and printed on pink, blue amd green paper [probably to reflect the different dates of production].
There is also a spiral bound photocopy of this script with 'res'd 1-3-1966' written in the bottom right hand corner on the title page. |