17 Minutes of Lost Footage from '2001: A Space Odyssey' Found!

Warner Bros has discovered 17-minutes of cut footage that was presumed lost.

In a long chain of discovery, The Film Stage learned this info from Blastr, who translated an article from Forgotten Silver reporting on the documentary duo whilst speaking at a special screening of a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey (did you get all that?). In addition, they've hypothesized that much of the footage is what ended up on the cutting room floor after the initial 160-minute running time from the 1968 premiere was reduced by 19-minutes later on. IMDb says some of the cut footage includes "a scene where HAL severs radio communication between the Discovery and Poole's pod before killing him," plus "an entire sequence of several shots in which Dave Bowman searches for the replacement antenna part in storage was removed."

However, just because this footage has been unearthed, doesn't mean it will ever be available to the general public. Still it's interesting to learn that this footage that was presumed lost forever has now been discovered still "perfectly preserved." In Toronto, Trumball and Larson showed images from the never-before-seen footage which will apparently be included in a behind-the-scenes photo book that is being put together in place of the halted production.

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