![]() TMA-1, or the Monolith on the Moon (No title card introduces this section of the film) The spinning bone segues to spaceships above Earth. The victorious alpha male throws his club and it spins into the air. ![]() The club-carriers bludgeon the other group's alpha male to death and chase off the rest. Club-carrying apes approach the group that drove them away from their waterhole. Three turning points in evolution happen simultaneously: proto-humans learn to kill with weapons, to hunt using weapons and eat meat, and to walk upright. (Soundtrack: "Thus Spake Zarathustra" again.) The ape realizes that it can destroy other bones with the club. (Soundtrack: György Ligeti's "Requiem.") An ape ( Daniel Richter) lifts a femur bone from a skeletal pile and realizes it makes a fine weapon. The apes are excited but touch the object and calm down. In the morning a tall, thin, rectangular black monolith stands among the rocks. ![]() At night the apes huddle in fear among the rocks. While one group of apes is drinking at a waterhole, another group approaches the two groups scream at each other and one party is driven off. The Dawn of Man In a sere African landscape, a group of ape-like hominids and some tapirs compete for the meagre green plants.
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