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Maximum Card - 2001 A Space Odyssey - British Film stamps 13 May 2014Stamp: 2001 A Space Odyssey issued 13 May 2014
Card: Film Poster, "2001 A Space Odyssey", EDC2041, Encyclopedie du Cinema, France
Postmark: Great British Film, Shepparton showing film clapper-board, 13.5.2014
American director, Steven Spielberg is on record as saying it inspired him to become a filmmaker. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is the other British film that appears close to the top in the greatest movies lists. Categorised as science fiction it has multiple interpretations and has won generations of fans. It regularly tops lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time and is also the only science fiction film to make the British Film Institute (BF I) poll for ten best movies of all time.
It was selected as the best science fiction movie ever by the American Film Institute. Although American, director Stanley Kubrick was a committed anglophile. He moved to the UK in the early 1960s and then made every film in the UK using British crew and studios. The innovative and hugely influential visual effects, sets and cinematography of 2001 are the work of British technicians and cameramen at Surrey’s Shepperton Studio, with the script co-written by British author Arthur C Clarke (whose short story was the basis for the film). Most observers will say that the images of future space travel have never been bettered and was achieved without the benefits of computer technology. It is widely regarded as a British film.
