2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) (Observation cameras) | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

Brief description

There are several brief scenes in which this technology is referenced. The camera is on the outside, and a screen connected to the camera is showing the outside to those inside.

The first scene is the one in which Dr. Heywood Floyd's transport is descending on the Moon. (quote 1, p. 53)

In the second one, the temporary facility built next to the monolith on the dark side of the Moon contains a TV screen showing the monolith, surveilling it at any given moment. Dr. Floyd is among the ones watching. (quote 2, p. 76)

The third one references cameras that show the outside of the spaceship Discovery to those inside. This is mentioned in the chapter that details Poole's and Bowman's routine aboard the Discovery ("Cruise Mode"). (quote 3, p. 99)

Pull Quotes

Quote 1:
"The wide arc of windows set in the curving wall of the passenger section now looked out onto the open sky, not the approaching globe, so he moved into the control cabin. Here, on the rear-view TV screen, he could watch the final stages of the descent." - p. 53

Quote 2:
"It also contained most of their equipment and instruments, all the stores that could not be left in the vacuum outside, cooking, washing, and toilet facilities, geological samples, and a small TV screen through which the site could be kept under continuous surveillance." - p. 76

Quote 3:
"Although it would require an excursion out into space to examine this region of the ship, there were instruments and remote TV cameras which gave a full report on conditions here." - p. 99

Work that the situation appears in

Title	Publication Type	Year	Creator
2001: A Space Odyssey (novel and film)	Narrative, Movie, Novel	1968	Arthur Charles Clarke, Stanley Kubrick

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Notes

Especially quote 2 implies that these are surveillance cameras with a kind of control room set-up therefore I added surveillance cameras to the tech. (Linda)

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