Stanley Kubrick's special effects for 2001 were so advanced, it's one of the major pieces of "evidence" conspiracy theorists pull out to suggest he was involved in faking the moon landings. The gravity-defying jog early on in the film used a similar rotating set to Inception's spinning hallways, but the trippy journey through the stars was even more impressive. That hallucinogenic ten-minute sequence used a technique which created the effects in camera, exposing each frame, piece by piece, to look weird as balls. It took effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull two and a half years.
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