On Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 10:50:41 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-03-21 11:17 a.m., Graham wrote:
>
> >> I won't watch that movie again because HAL is the creepiest. That
> >> voice - shudder.
> >> Janet US
> >>
> > I saw that movie when it first came out. I still regret spending that
> > admission money. What a lousy, over-rated film!
> My uncle took my cousin and me to see it at a theatre in Toronto that
> that the cinemascope or whatever the format was that made it special.
> About half way through the movie the power went out because of a fire at
> a nearby lumber yard, so we got rainchecks to come back and see it the
> next night.

The same exact thing happened to me. It wasn't a movie but it was Jimi Hendrix. The power didn't go out but his amps was humming too much so he walked off stage. I did see him the next night too.
You probably saw it on a Cinerama format/screen. It a process of filming with 3 cameras and 3 synchronized projectors projecting on a wide, curved, screen. It's kind kind of a goofy format. It's kind of disorienting if you get too close to what you're filming around the edges.
I have seen a Blu-ray disk copy of 2001 on a HD TV. It's like seeing the movie for the first time. Stanley Kubrick was a technical perfectionist and the images he captured in his camera was still startling half a century later.