2001:A Space Odyssey_THE “Star Gate“visual effects_HD

I am not making any money off this channel and all videos/edits are in accordance with copyright/fair use. Follow Us 👉 2001: A Space Odyssey The “Star Gate“ sequence was one of many ground-breaking visual effects. It was primarily for these that Stanley Kubrick won his only personal Academy Award. The colored lights in the Star Gate sequence were accomplished by slit-scan photography of thousands of high-contrast images on film, including Op art paintings, architectural drawings, Moiré patterns, printed circuits, and electron-microscope photographs of molecular and crystal structures. Known to staff as “Manhattan Project“, the shots of various nebula-like phenomena, including the expanding star field, were colored paints and chemicals swirling in a pool-like device known as a cloud tank, shot in slow-motion in a dark room. The live-action landscape shots in the ’Star Gate’ sequence were filmed in the Hebridean islands, the mountains of no