2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

From Bone to Satellite

Using a bone as a weapon for the first time, an ape beats down the leader of another tribe to reclaim control of a watering hole. Triumphant, the ape tosses the bone into the air which transforms into an orbital satellite, jumping four million years of human history.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

© Warner Bros. 2012

Released in 1968 by Warner Bros..

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