No, this shot isn't in the film -- I know, the entire film is impressed onto my
brain in precise detail -- but I suspect in was in the footage that was deleted
(and probably no longer exists). I know there was footage of Bowman going into
the storage area and retracting the replacement AE-35 (I've seen photos of it),
and I also have heard that originally Poole's EVA was a perfect, shot-for-shot
duplicate of Bowman's, until he's killed, so it stands to reason that the same
shot of Bowman retrieving the AE-35 was duplicated by Poole.

If so, this would have been a continuity error, since Poole was putting back the
AE-35 that Bowman had retreived, and that unit was on the workbench in the pod
bay, not in the storage area. I've always been curious to see the original cut,
but from what I've heard, the final version is an improvement.

Collin

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
wrote:
>
> Are you sure this is not in the film? I haven't watched 2001 in a
> while but I recall that this was a brief shot when Poole is
> prepping to go out to get the AE-35.
>
> Mark McKennon
>
>
>
>
> On Mon Jul 20 12:06:32 CDT 2009, Christian Bobak
> <kubrickrules2001@...> wrote:
>
> > Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question
> > I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following
> > picture as the group home page photo on both my Yahoo and
> > Care2.com groups:
> >
>
> > I love this thing and have used it for years. Trouble is, I can't
> > actually find the scene in 2001 where this would have appeared.
> > The closest I could find was a scene where Bowman was facing the
> > other way and the corridor certainly wasn't this yellow. Is this
> > even a photo or screen capture to begin with, or an elaborate,
> > life-like painting? I thought it was a frame from the film but it
> > isn't (unless it's part of the missing 19 minutes of footage).
> >
> > Anyone know the origin of this picture/painting?
> >
> > Christian
>