Title: Arthur C. Clarke
Content: novel details the threat posed to humanity by the alien monoliths, whose actions are not always as their builders had intended. Clarke's first venture into film was "", directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick and Clarke had met in New York City in 1964 to discuss the possibility of a collaborative film project. As the idea developed, they decided to loosely base the story on Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel", written in 1948 as an entry in a BBC short story competition. Originally, Clarke was going to write the screenplay for the film, but Kubrick suggested during one of their brainstorming

Title: The Sentinel (short story)
Content: Lost Worlds of 2001" (1972). Despite the story's initial failure, it changed the course of Clarke's career. "The Sentinel" (published 1982) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, which includes the eponymous "The Sentinel", "Guardian Angel" (the inspiration for his "Childhood's End"), "The Songs of Distant Earth", and "Breaking Strain". The story deals with the discovery of an artefact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral, is tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator speculates at one point

Title: The Sentinel (short story)
Content: by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick and Clarke modified and fused the story with other ideas. Clarke expressed impatience with its common description as the story on which the novel and movie are based. He explained The Sentinel (short story) "The Sentinel" is a short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity", which was used as a starting point for the and . "The Sentinel" was written in 1948 for a BBC competition (in which it failed to place) and was first published in the magazine "10 Story Fantasy"

Title: Stanley Kubrick
Content: old selves. After meeting Clarke in New York City in April 1964, Kubrick made the suggestion to work on his 1948 short story "The Sentinel", about a tetrahedron which is found on the Moon which alerts aliens of mankind. That year, Clarke began writing the novel "", and the screenplay was written by Kubrick and Clarke in collaboration. The film's theme, the birthing of one intelligence by another, is developed in two parallel intersecting stories on two very different times scales. One depicts transitions between various stages of man, from ape to "star child", as man is reborn into a

Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Content: Clarke decided it would be best to write a prose treatment first and then adapt it for the film and novel upon its completion. Clarke and Kubrick jointly developed the screenplay and treatment, which were loosely based on "The Sentinel" and incorporated elements from various other Clarke stories. Clarke wrote the novel adaptation independently. Although the film has become famous due to its groundbreaking visual effects and ambiguous, abstract nature, the film and book were intended to complement each other. The film was written by Clarke and Kubrick and featured specialist artwork by Roy Carnon. The film is notable for

Question: Which 1968 sci fi classic was based on The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke?
Answer: 2001: A Space Odyssey