Another thing I missed at the movies

I was watching a clip from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey:

source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdbhZBpqNPM

Right at the start we see a fellow in a suit (plaid coat with pants to match ! - I imagine that if a moonbase is ever established that everyone will be wearing matching khaki pants with a polo shirt like they wear on the ISS :).

He is using a pistol grip item which looks like a monocular kind of instrument thingy but which is a camera.  I completely missed this when I saw the movie but a Leica using friend of mine mentioned it once - that was the director Stanley Kubrick's notion of what a photographer would use in the 21st century - Kubrick used to be a photographer for Look Magazine before becoming a film director.  Note that the camera has a subtle Leica like click rather than the fairly loud mirror slap noise played by a cell phone :)

Anyway, an interesting moment from the movie - a prediction gone wrong.  Not only the fact that we have no Moon bases but if we did everyone would have a small rectangular candy bar type of object that they would periodically hold at arms length to take pictures :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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