Paul Rossen
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Originally Posted by Richard--W
The cut footage does add substantially to the narrative, I assure you.
I barely remember it, but there was an additional scene of one of the astronauts working out his anxiety over Hal by jogging through the centrifuge. Poole's spacewalk wasn't just longer, it was a carefully edited and sustained suspense sequence. Because it was longer, it was more "immersive." I've seen 2001 projected perhaps a hundred times since April 1968 at the Capitol Theater in NYC, and I would love to see it again with the missing 19 minutes reinstated. The article infers that the Kubrick family is against it, however, and against Douglas Trumbull's documentary. That is very unfortunate.
I can't believe there is so little interest on HTF in this major discovery.
I believe that the cuts were made within days of the premiere at the Capitol Theater(Loew's Cinerama) in April 1968. I too saw 2001 at the Capitol sometime in April 1968 but alas it had already been cut.