https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/con-pederson-rip-2001-a-space-odyssey-258110.html>Hollywood press outlets recently announced the death of Con Pederson, the last of the four men credited as special photographic effects supervisor — alongside Wally Veevers, Douglas Trumbull, and Tom Howard — on Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science-fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.>The four supervisors’ names appeared at the close of Kubrick’s film following a card announcing, “Special Photographic Effects Designed and Directed by Stanley Kubrick.” Kubrick went on to claim his sole Oscar for Best Special Effects for the film and was a no-show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion ceremony in April 1969. Decades later, when the year 2001 dawned, and attention refocused on the film, Pederson remained reticent to speak to journalists on the topic, although his work with Kubrick remained close to his heart. “It was a couple of years of unprecedented moviemaking,” Pederson told an audience in Burbank, California, in 2018. “It couldn’t have been done here, and that’s too bad. It’ll never be done again.”>In a 1999 interview with CalArts film and animation professor William Moritz, Pederson expressed his affection for Kubrick as a deep thinker and a fellow maverick Hollywood outsider with whom he maintained a friendship through subsequent years. “[Stanley] was wonderful,” Pederson recalled. “A generous man. Brilliant guy and surprisingly folksy… He was always doing things where there was a high probability of failure, but he substituted something for fear. And I don’t know what it was.”>Pederson was born in rural Minnesota on April 15, 1934, and later moved with his parents and two sisters to Inglewood, California, in 1943, where he developed a fascination with aircraft and science fiction. He studied at Los Angeles City College and, in 1951, pursued art and anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bump.
