A Welcome Discovery: Puzzle Solved
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beamjockeyYou'll recall that I made a claim that a museum exhibit from the movie 2010 was misidentified. When challenged by Miriam Posner of the American Museum of the Moving Image, I began to doubt this claim.
Certainly the globe of Io was mislabeled as the Moon. However, the spaceship model is not the Leonov as I had thought at first. Instead it is the Discovery. Just not the entire Discovery...
The model at AMMI, displayed against the Io globe miniature:
Here is the same model, on exhibit at COSI in Ohio, in pictures snapped by Mark "Neolase" Schweter.
Over on sci.space.history, Andre Lieven and OM suggested that I look at the scene where Leonov clamps onto the central spine of Discovery in order to use the American ship as a booster. This occurs at about 1:29 in the movie's running time, Title 1 of 5, chapter 24 of 32 on my edition of the DVD, with 26 minutes left to go.
(Please forgive the quality of these images. My computer's DVD-playing software inhibits my ability to grab images off the screen. This is a "fair use" situation for sure, but the machine allows NO capture of DVD images. Rather than take time to locate and install software that defeats this function, I simply grabbed my camera and hastily shot the TV screen. I think the images are good enough to identify the miniature.)
Leonov approaches Discovery with a giant clamp extended, just aft of the command sphere. (Don't ask me why a Jupiter probe has a giant clamp, at least not until I've re-watched the entire film.) We see closeups of this process as the clamp grabs on.
Comparing my screen shots to the above and other photos of AMMI's exhibit, I am satisfied that the miniature is part of the spine. I was wrong to claim otherwise, and I have passed these images on to the museum.
After the operation is complete, a long shot shows the arrangement of the two ships.
As a delightful bonus, here is a frame from about 45 seconds into Title 5 on the DVD, the "making of" featurette, where Sir Arthur C. Clarke, formerly of "The Flat," 88 Gray's Inn Road, Bloomsbury, London, UK, more recently of Colombo, Sri Lanka, addresses the audience:
It is apparent that AMMI's model was once attached to the command sphere.
This means that, if you like to play the "Kevin Bacon"/"Erdös Numbers" game under the operation of "has been photographed in front of the same miniature as," well, I am just one step away from Sir Arthur.
Certainly the globe of Io was mislabeled as the Moon. However, the spaceship model is not the Leonov as I had thought at first. Instead it is the Discovery. Just not the entire Discovery...
The model at AMMI, displayed against the Io globe miniature:
Here is the same model, on exhibit at COSI in Ohio, in pictures snapped by Mark "Neolase" Schweter.
Over on sci.space.history, Andre Lieven and OM suggested that I look at the scene where Leonov clamps onto the central spine of Discovery in order to use the American ship as a booster. This occurs at about 1:29 in the movie's running time, Title 1 of 5, chapter 24 of 32 on my edition of the DVD, with 26 minutes left to go.
(Please forgive the quality of these images. My computer's DVD-playing software inhibits my ability to grab images off the screen. This is a "fair use" situation for sure, but the machine allows NO capture of DVD images. Rather than take time to locate and install software that defeats this function, I simply grabbed my camera and hastily shot the TV screen. I think the images are good enough to identify the miniature.)
Leonov approaches Discovery with a giant clamp extended, just aft of the command sphere. (Don't ask me why a Jupiter probe has a giant clamp, at least not until I've re-watched the entire film.) We see closeups of this process as the clamp grabs on.
Comparing my screen shots to the above and other photos of AMMI's exhibit, I am satisfied that the miniature is part of the spine. I was wrong to claim otherwise, and I have passed these images on to the museum.
After the operation is complete, a long shot shows the arrangement of the two ships.
As a delightful bonus, here is a frame from about 45 seconds into Title 5 on the DVD, the "making of" featurette, where Sir Arthur C. Clarke, formerly of "The Flat," 88 Gray's Inn Road, Bloomsbury, London, UK, more recently of Colombo, Sri Lanka, addresses the audience:
It is apparent that AMMI's model was once attached to the command sphere.
This means that, if you like to play the "Kevin Bacon"/"Erdös Numbers" game under the operation of "has been photographed in front of the same miniature as," well, I am just one step away from Sir Arthur.
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Date: 2007-05-07 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 01:29 pm (UTC)See I WAS right after really looking at the damned thing.
BTW: The DI worked a contract in Niagara Falls a couple of weeks back and I got to spend some time at the Niagara Aerospace Museum, saw your rocket belts.
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Date: 2007-05-07 01:46 pm (UTC)Why did the _Leonov_ have a clamp? Been a while since I saw the movie so I can't really say. At a guess, they might have expected to need to bring _Discovery_ home that way if it wasn't repairable.
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Date: 2007-05-07 02:07 pm (UTC)