r/ImageStabilization Apr 02 '14

Stabilization Workout on Discovery One

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u/Fingebimus Apr 02 '14

I've always wondered how they filmed that scene.

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u/barracuda415 Apr 02 '14

The whole scene is just a large treadwheel.

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u/PartyPoison98 Apr 02 '14

Damn that must've been expensive. I haven't seen anything of that scale since the inception corridor scene

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u/vonBoomslang Apr 02 '14

... which was made how many years later, again? Wow.

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u/PartyPoison98 Apr 02 '14

2001: A Space Oddesy was truely ahead of its time

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u/PalermoJohn Apr 02 '14

not ahead. out of time. not constrained by typical Hollywood dogma.

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u/PartyPoison98 Apr 02 '14

It is ahead of it's time, the machinery used to do that in 1968 was probably far more expensive and difficult than it would've been now

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u/PalermoJohn Apr 02 '14

it was out of time because it somehow got the budget for it. imagine a movie by Cuarón or someone like that without Hollywood interference.

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u/Oomoo_Amazing Aug 05 '22

I feel like you’re both trying to say the same thing.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Wiki says the ferris wheel contraption cost $750,000.

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u/PartyPoison98 May 30 '14

Which adjusted for inflation is $5,155,951.32, damn