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2001: A Space Odyssey Frank Poole Gary Lockwood Space Suit Set

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Movie - Memorabilia Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
2001: A Space Odyssey Frank Poole Gary Lockwood Space Suit Set
Frank Poole’s (Gary Lockwood) Yellow Spacesuit Set: The plot thickens when HAL (the voice of Douglas Rain), the “perfect computer” seems to make its first mistake, when it alerts Poole and Bowman that the AE-35 Unit, an antenna system outside the shop is about to fail. When they retrieve it and check it out, it shows no sign of malfunction. An embarrassed HAL suggests they put it back and let it fail, since he knows he’s right. Poole goes out again in a Yellow Spacesuit, but this time, HAL orders his Pod to cut Poole’s oxygen supply, killing him. Bowman rushes to another pod to retrieve him, and while he’s out, HAL creates “mass murder” by also turning off the life functions of the other astronauts that have been sent up in suspended animation, leaving Bowman as the only living thing on the ship. Poole’s yellow suit was a striking visual against the blackness of space, and turning the arms of Bowman’s Pod (Bowman has to release the body however when he realizes that HAL is not going to let him back in the ship. This amazing set comes with the full yellow suit with buttons and straps, matching helmet with “United Astronautics Agency – Discovery” emblems’ on either side on top (which, in the movie, when shot from a high angle as he is coming out of his pod in space, makes him look like a giant alien bug!), red communication pack and red oxygen pack, yellow gloves and silver boots. It comes packaged in a beautiful black box with overlapping lid, filled with color photos and a “legend” (again note that the only glitch is that the title is misspelled!). The suit and accessories are vacuum formed into the box which is made to look like the corridor to the entrance to HAL’S main brain. Suit is approx 9”x6”