Pictures gallery from the film:   2001 a Space Odyssey  (1968)
 

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Art Direction:Ernest Archer , Harry Lange ,  Anthony Masters
Special photographic effects: Wally Veevers, Tom Howard, Douglas Trumbull, Con Pederson
Aditional special effects: Les Bowie, Charles Staffel, Brian Johnson
Model effects:  Bob Cuff, Joy Cuff , John Mackey

Stanley Kubrick didn´t allow matte paintings , so for the moon scenes were built model miniatures.
Bob Cuff and John Mackey were responsibles of the excavated pit on the moon and to make various travelling shots of moonscapes.
 

"The shot of the monolith in a pit on the moon was shot at a weekend
this 10 min of shot of live action from Shepperton took a day to shoot.
Shot at 2 frames per second. The table top model was the landscape with
the pile of earth beside the pit which was matted on to the live action of
the space men walking down into the pit to look at the monolith."
By FX artist: Joy Cuff