The narration features voices of market commentators: "A wild ride on Wall Street … the biggest point drop … a precipitous fall … these guys have been gambling … gambling … bad bets … they didn't know when to back away.
At 1 p.m., Roots of Brazil, a folkloric dance troupe, will present a program of dance and narration, featuring percussionists, martial artists, dancers and singers demonstrating instruments and traditional songs from Bahia.
Talk about missed opportunities! "Pull My Daisy" is the 1959 film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, based on writings by Jack Kerouac (who provided the voice-over narration), featuring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Alice Neel, and other artists in a story that takes place entirely in one apartment, and that involves scenes of musicians improvising.
Many of these books also include animated stills in addition to the narration – a feature now common to interactive e-book apps today.
Early drafts included a short prologue containing interviews with scientists about extraterrestrial life, voice-over narration (a feature in all of Kubrick's previous films), a stronger emphasis on the prevailing Cold War balance of terror, a slightly different and more explicitly explained scenario for Hal's breakdown, and a differently envisaged monolith for the "Dawn of Man" sequence.
The narration, which features some well-observed meditations on Midwestern style and New York corporate life, works a sort of three-card monte on the audience's moral imagination.
The ballet includes a vocal section -- a poem is sung about the mermaid -- but does not feature narration.
After the opening titles, which feature narration from Sir Patrick Stewart over crude CGI renderings of DNA strands (which, frankly, look more like footage from a colonoscopy), we are taken to Auschwitz in 1944.
