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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberSK/12/1/2/5
Title'The Computer'
DescriptionTypewritten notes on yellow paper giving plot and character points relating to the storylines for the scenes on board the Discovery Spacecraft and mainly relating to the computer character for the storyline of 2001: Space Odyssey [later to be called HAL]. The text is broken down into sections with the headings Its Humanity, The Lie, Paradoxes and Lies, Chess, Hypochondria, Fear of Erasure, Plan to Switch to Earth Computer Control, The Accident, Nantucket Sleigh Ride, The Dilemma, Hybernation, Catastrophe, Murder, Poole is Lost, Poole's Death, Bowman Erects Antenna, Mission Control [Some of these subjects are also discussed in SK/12/1/2/6 Kubrick's Screenplay Notes].

Includes handwritten notes, crossing outs and corrections by Stanley Kubrick.

[PLEASE NOTE: pages 1 and 4 are on loan until February 2019 and so have been replaced by surrogates]
Date21 Oct 1965
Extent12 pages
LevelFile
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