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In 2018, the Smithsonian exhibited a complete recreation of a set from this film by Simon Birch titled The Barmecide Feast. A character in this film uses an Arne Jacobsen cutlery set to eat a meal resembling a TV dinner. Set designer Anthony Masters filled a sloping hallway in this film with Eero Saarinen pedestal tables surrounded by Olivier Mourgue’s red Djinn chairs. (15[1])The arms firm Vickers-Armstrong built a giant vertical (*) “wheel” as a rotating set for this film, whose effects head Douglas Trumbull (10[1])inserted op art images in a slit-scan photography sequence. A bedroom in this film with French neoclassical furnishings and a gridded white floor is often thought to be a “human zoo.” For 10 points, a black monolith launches the “Dawn (10[1])of Man” in what film by Stanley Kubrick? ■END■

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