2001: A Space Odyssey - Instructions for the Zero Gravity Space Toilet

Some of my favorite collector's items are movie paper props. I got a huge number of paper props for the Back-to-the-Future trilogy from the forums at therpf.com. Recently, I re-typed the "All work and no play..." typewriter pages from The Shining and posted these here. "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie is one of my all-time favorite movies. While it uses a lot of typesetting (which has been studied in great detail in this fantastic review), it does not contain many paper props. But there is one thing that I wanted to hang on my wall (next to my HAL 9000 replica): The instructions for the "Zero Gravity Toilet".

I created a document in legal size (8.5" x 14") in the Open Source Desktop Publishing software scribus and found fonts that closely match Eurostile Bold as described here.

I adjusted the spacing, to reproduce the spacing and the line breaks as seen in various movie images. At some point, I may build a light box, to make it exactly look as seen in the movie. Currently, I have it in a simple black frame.

In case somebody prefers to use less ink/toner, I also made a black-on-white version.

To get the full quality, click on the images, then right-click on the new image, and select "open image in new window" - there you right-click: "save image as".

PS: I just figured out that this does not give you the full quality, so I uploaded the hi-res .pdf file on my Google Drive.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - the first 20 pages

Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" has so many iconic scenes. One of them is when Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) finds Jack's typewriter. The page in the typewriter, as well as all pages in the adjacent cardboard box are featuring seemingly infinite copies of that one sentence: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" (different language-specific pages were used in different releases. E.g. in the German release, the text is "Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen").

In the movie, one can see the page in the typewriter, plus the upper 17 pages in the cardboard box. In addition to these 18 pages visible in the movie, I found two photos on the web that showed two further pages with additional, different layouts.

Nowhere on the web, however, I was able to find good-quality images of the individual pages. Since I love movie props, and I wanted to have printouts of these pages, I decided to re-type these myself. While (as the story goes) Kubrick's assistant had to type all of these (in fact, a total of 500 pages) by hand, I used copy and paste. The real work was to add the little imperfections (typos, variations of line spacing, etc.).

I used a set of three typewriter fonts from the (free) Gabriele family and typed everything in Open Source Desktop Publishing software Scribus. Since only the upper 75% of the pages are visible in the movie, I extrapolated the bottom parts in a consistent way.

The first 18 pages appear in the movie clip above at the following times:
0:40 - 1 double spacing - no periods
1:04 - 2 full page, not formatted - 6 paragraphs
1:21 - 3 unformatted + 3 "verses"
1:23 - 4 all formatted
1:26 - 5 all formatted
1:27 - 6 like 3 - different
1:30 - 7 unformatted
1:33 - 8 formatted
1:35 - 9 formatted
1:36 - 10 formatted 1.5 space
1:37 - 11 triangles 
1:37 - 12 formatted double/single spaced
1:38 - 13 formatted - verse
1:40 - 14 unformatted double spaced
1:42 - 15 unformatted 1.5 spaced
1:44 - 16 formatted single
1:46 - 17 formatted single - shifted right
1:47 - 18 formatted double
on the web:  19 zig-zag
from therpf.com: 20 page with tiny margins

And here are the 20 pages in letter size and at 150dpi resolution. Serving suggestion: Display them in a box, next to your typewriter (get one at a yardsale) and make your visitors think you're insane.
(To get the full quality, click on the images, then right-click on the new image, and select "open image in new window" - there you right-click: "save image as".)

Bound Paperback (Note-)book

After I created these pages, I wanted to have them in a bound book. I created a 5.8" x 8.2" book with 82 pages which features all the typewriter pages on the right (odd) pages, printed in light grey while the left (even) pages are empty. So, it can be used both as a notebook - or as an item for movie buffs (or both). The cover artwork is based on the carpet pattern.

The book is available here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-torrance/all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-dull-boy/paperback/product-24432397.html

The Carpet Pattern

Here is the image that I created for the book cover.

And a high resolution pdf file can be downloaded from my Google Drive.