I can't believe how beautiful some of the shots are in this movie, and it is incredibly hard to believe that this was made all the way back in 1968. There must have been such a difference to watch it back then though, when technology was even more primitive than ours is now. I found the shots of the planets were comparable to ones still used today in movies.
shareIndeed. I am most impressed with the Dawn of Man prologue. It featured shots of a truly primeval landscape filmed in
Africa and combined using state of the art front projection technology with the shots of the ape-men. And the famous
jump cut from a simple bone as weapon technology to a space vehicle is brilliant. It apparently came about as a happy
accident. Incidentely the space vehicle is supposed to be a nuclear bomb as part of a doomsday machine to prevent a
nuclear war. And the split-scan technique of the star gate sequence was groundbreaking as well. I saw it in 1968 in
70mm and it was mighty impressive. If you get the chance to see it in 70mm it adds to the epic scope of the film.
Truly a work of art by a genius. Especially when accompanied by the classical music. Not like the over the top CGI crap that passes for entertainment nowadays.
shareI was surprised that some of the visuals are paintings rather than miniatures. Everything's so detailed and realistic.
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