Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Ian Whitaker’s insightful commentary guides you through rare BTS images during
making of the Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. Includes deleted scenes, making the starchild baby, the AE-35 prop, effects, concepts for the monolith (pyramid and transparent cube included) Howard Johnson’s Earthlight room, the International Space Station, Moon Base Clavius, the apes / early prehistoric humans.
Stuart Freeborn, Douglas Trumbull, Kay Freeborn, Liz Moore, Roy Carnon and many other creative talents feature. As well as lost, presumed destroyed and some found props from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Update/Correction:
A picture from John Huckert‘s book ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
A Journal on the Making of the Motion Picture 2010 appears at 6:22, but it’s from 2010, not 2001. This limited edition book is available signed at drkrm.com or sealed at Amazon.
Music credit:
Winter-Vivaldi - Conducted by Philip Milman (Creative commons 3.0)
Ian Whitaker’s insightful commentary guides you through rare BTS images during
making of the Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. Includes deleted scenes, making the starchild baby, the AE-35 prop, effects, concepts for the monolith (pyramid and transparent cube included) Howard Johnson’s Earthlight room, the International Space Station, Moon Base Clavius, the apes / early prehistoric humans.
Stuart Freeborn, Douglas Trumbull, Kay Freeborn, Liz Moore, Roy Carnon and many other creative talents feature. As well as lost, presumed destroyed and some found props from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Update/Correction:
A picture from John Huckert‘s book ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
A Journal on the Making of the Motion Picture 2010 appears at 6:22, but it’s from 2010, not 2001. This limited edition book is available signed at drkrm.com or sealed at Amazon.
Music credit:
Winter-Vivaldi - Conducted by Philip Milman (Creative commons 3.0)










