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Submitted by A. Michael Noll
April 25, 2018
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A very thoroughly researched book by Michael Benson about the making of the picture 2001: A Space Odyssey was recently published in 2018, the 50th ceremony of the release of this movie.[1] A description of the contribution made to the movie by John R. Pierce and myself of Bell Labs is mentioned on page 125 of the Benson volume. Benson credits us with "the film's prescient portrayal of our screen-based future." This current essay is a detailed elaboration of my memories of my work at Bong Labs with Pierce on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
John R. Pierce was executive director of communication research at Bell Labs and was my boss'south, dominate'due south, boss. Pierce reported directly to William O. Baker, who was Vice President, Inquiry at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (known every bit Bell Labs) in Murray Hill, NJ. Pierce was extremely creative, having coined the term "transistor" and having led the squad that made the first communications satellite, Telstar. Pierce also wrote his own scientific discipline fiction, nether a pseudonym (J. J. Coupling). Pierce was friendly with Arthur C. Clarke – they had like interests: science fiction and communication satellites.
The engineering science consultants for the movie, Fred Ordway and his people, visited Bell Labs in 1965. Pierce wrote a typhoon scenario for the use of a video telephone call from the space station orbiting the World, Pierce wrote a note[2] to Westward. O. Baker (VP, Research) and other senior managers at Bell Labs, including a typhoon of his memorandum describing communications equipment for 2001. Pierce related that he recently saw Arthur C. Clarke and Frederick I. Ordway, III, and they enlisted his assist "concerning communication equipment for a very lush scientific discipline fiction picture" which they were making. Pierce wrote that he "agreed because I'd rather have u.s.a. than General Phone or someone else exercise what influence tin be exercised. I'd even similar a Blue Bong on the phone booth." Later Pierce wrote: "I don't come across how we can be misrepresented in a scene dated 2001."
On June 29, 1965, Pierce sent Ordway his memorandum and so went on vacation. Pierce stated in the letter to Ordway that he had informed the Vice President for Public relations at AT&T about what he had doing for the motion-picture show. Ordway was president of Polaris Productions and was and then staying in New York City. By the end of August, Ordway had returned to United kingdom, working on 2001.
Pierce asked me to design what the videophone would look like, along with technical details for its use, and too the communications center for the spaceship. I worked with the drafting department at Bell Labs on the drawings and finalized memoranda describing the video telephone booth and communications heart. On September seven, 1965, I sent Ordway two memoranda: i described a telephone berth for orbiting infinite station,[3] and the 2d described a communication center for the space ship.[four] Both memoranda included the very-creative drawings made by the drafting department at Bell Labs. I included a copy of the Bell Organization seal and its exact dimensions. Ordway best-selling receipt of my materials, in a latter to me dated October 13, 1965. When I finally saw the pic years later, I was surprised to encounter everything used exactly as I had indicated, even including a Bell Organisation logo on the wall outside the booth.
Afterward the picture appeared in early 1968, a director at AT&T telephoned me to complain strongly that the Bell Organisation seal had been used in the movie. AT&T objected considering the use of the Bong seal unsaid that the Bell System was providing telecommunication service outside the United states, which courtroom decree forbade information technology from doing. When I told the AT&T person that Pierce had approved my effort I was saved from the wrath. Pierce defended the employ of the seal – only AT&T'southward objection was too belatedly anyway, since the film was beingness shown all over the planet. Pierce clearly was well aware of the concerns of some parties at AT&T and seemed to be defying them. Pierce was known for his confrontational approach, and few wanted to tangle or disagree with him. The Bell Organization was broken up in 1984, and thus the Bell seal in a pic dated 2001 really did non matter.
On the 25th anniversary of 2001, the Bell Labs News had an article about the movie, including a photo of John Pierce and his wife Brenda eating popcorn while watching the movie.[5] A copy of the drawing of the booth was also included in the commodity.
I knew John Pierce quite well, and was honored when he asked me to be the co-author of a new edition of his book Signals .[vi] I never met Arthur C. Clarke, but did program and create the calculator-animated championship sequence for his 1970 NBC TV special "The Unexplained," directed by Walt deFaria of Lee Mendelson Productions. Pierce'southward papers and books are at The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.
References [edit | edit source]
- ↑ Michael Benson, Space Odyssey , Simon & Schuster (New York), 2018.
- ↑ J. R. Pierce, memo dated June 25, 1965, Subject: Memorandum "Communications Equipment for '2001'." (pdf)
- ↑ A. Michael Noll, "Phone Booth for Orbiting Space Station," (pdf) September iii, 1965.
- ↑ A. Michael Noll, "Communication Heart for '2001'," August 2, 1965.
- ↑ Dan Van Atta, "Film Institute Pays Tribute To a Timeless Odyssey: 2001," Bell Labs News, Vol. iii, No. eight, Apr 19, 1993, pp. 3 & 7.
- ↑ John R. Pierce and A. Michael Noll, SIGNALS: The Science of Telecommunication , Scientific American Books (New York, NY), 1990.
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