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Post by auntym on Jun 8, 2011 11:10:18 GMT -6
Super 8
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Super 8 hits theaters on June 10th, 2011.
Cast: Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Amanda Michalka
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Super 8 trailer courtesy Paramount Pictures.
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Post by auntym on Jun 8, 2011 20:01:27 GMT -6
Steven Spielberg Talks UFOs
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While speaking on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg discusses his beliefs regarding UFOs and alien visitation to Earth.
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i saw this interview, he was on the ACTORS STUDIO, and i mentioned it several times on mufon & ufomania
Steven Spielberg believes in aliens
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Spielberg Talks About Close Encounters & UFOs
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Steven Spielberg talks about Close Encounters and UFOs in a 1977 interview.
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Post by auntym on Dec 5, 2011 12:15:23 GMT -6
silverscreensaucers.blogspot.com/2011/12/spielbergs-et-came-close-to-being.html5 December 2011 Spielberg's 'E.T.' came close to being a horror[/color] By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers One of the world’s most beloved family films – E.T. The Extraterrestrial – was very nearly a nightmarish horror; this according to the film’s director Steven Spielberg, who recently told Entertainment Weekly of his 1982 classic: "It was going to be called Night Skies, based on a piece of UFO mythology... where a farm family reported little spindly grey aliens attacking their farm, even riding cows in the farmyard. This farm family basically huddled together for survival... It's a story that's well-known in the world of ufology, and we based our script on that story." Spielberg is, of course, referring to the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter of 1955, which is regarded as one of the most significant and bizarre UFO cases on record. It is also one of the best-documented. Spielberg tells Entertainment Weekly that he even went so far as to hire legendary effects designer Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) to bring the impish Hopkinsville Kentucky aliens to life on the big screen, adding that E.T. only transformed into a family film when Harrison Ford's then-girlfriend Melissa Mathison came onboard to rewrite the screenplay. "Melissa didn't want to write it,” Spielberg says, “I needed Harrison and all of us to talk her into it." silverscreensaucers.blogspot.com/2011/12/spielbergs-et-came-close-to-being.html
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Post by auntym on Dec 5, 2011 12:19:52 GMT -6
www.presidentialufo.com/steven-spielberg/344-spielbergs-saucer-secrets Spielberg's Saucer Secrets [/color] Written by Robbie Graham & Matthew Alford Monday, 04 October 2010 Steven Spielberg is obsessed with UFOs. Indeed, judging by the success of his alien movies to date, his obsession is infectious. Perhaps more so than any other filmmaker, Spielberg has moulded our perceptions of otherworldly visitors. Films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982) abound with iconic imagery seared into the minds of millions: a mothership’s miraculous ascension at Devil’s Tower; a boy and his fugitive friend from the stars cycling in silhouette across the face of the moon. Even Spielberg’s less memorable alien movies – War of the Worlds (2005) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) – have enjoyed enormous success at the worldwide box-office, raking in some $1.4 billion between them. Although the 63 year old has donned his director’s cap for just four alien-themed movies, his role as a producer has long seen him neck-deep in extraterrestrial entertainment. Spielberg’s credits to date include, Batteries Not Included (1987), the Men in Black franchise (1997 -), the epic alien abduction mini-series Taken (2002) and the Transformers franchise (2007 -); he is also closely involved in the development of four projects due in 2011: the alien invasion series Fallen Skies; the ‘Sci-fi-Western’ Cowboys and Aliens; the much anticipated Super 8, the plot for which features Area 51, the US Air Force and an escaped alien entity; and the ‘aliens in high school’ thriller, I Am Number Four. That Spielberg continues to make movies about life elsewhere is owed not simply to good business sense, but is due in large part to his own childhood fascination with UFOs; a fascination that would intensify into his late twenties and culminate in his cathartic production of Close Encounters – one of the director’s most personal films. “I was mainly inspired when I began to meet people who had had experiences,” Spielberg told Sight and Sound magazine in 1977. “I realised that just about every fifth person I talked to had looked up at the sky at some point in their lives and seen something that was not easy to explain. And then I began meeting people who had had close encounters... where undeniably something quite phenomenal was happening right before their eyes. It was this direct contact – the interviews – that got me interested in making the movie.” Spielberg’s interest in UFOs even extended to a belief in an official cover-up: “I wouldn’t put it past this government that a cosmic Watergate has been underway for the last 25 years,” he remarked during a Close Encounters promotional interview, “Eventually they might want to tell us something about what they’ve discovered over the decades.”[ii]
That the world’s most successful living director has an overt fascination with UFOs has long fuelled conspiracy theories that he may have gained “inside knowledge” of a genuine “cosmic Watergate.” Spielberg, after all, is a generous campaign contributor to the Democratic Party and routinely rubs shoulders with the Washington power elite.[iii] Some even peg Spielberg as the government’s go-to guy in what is thought to be a secret programme to acclimatise the public to the reality of extraterrestrials through entertainment media.
Spielberg has been inseparable from the political dimension of the UFO phenomenon since the early days of his career. In 1977, he spoke with relish of “rumours” that President Carter was due to make “some unsettling disclosures” about UFOs later that year.[iv] Needless to say, no such disclosures were forthcoming, although not for lack of effort on Carter’s part. Jimmy Carter famously had reported his own UFO sighting in 1969 and it had made a believer of him[v] – so much so that one of his informal campaign pledges had been to reveal the truth about UFOs.
CONTINUE READING: www.presidentialufo.com/steven-spielberg/344-spielbergs-saucer-secrets
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Post by auntym on Dec 5, 2011 12:32:51 GMT -6
silverscreensaucers.blogspot.com/2011/06/reagan-wasnt-joking-and-spielberg-knows.html7 June 2011 Reagan wasn't joking, and Spielberg knows itBy Robbie Graham In an interview with Ain't It Cool News writer Eric Vespe (better known online as 'Quint') published June 6th, Steven Spielberg confirms that, following a White House screening of E.T: The Extraterrestrial in 1982, President Ronald Reagan did indeed make remarks to the effect that the premise of Spielberg's movie - extraterrestrial visitation - was fact, not fiction. This is something of a bombshell. Rumours have persisted for years about just what - if anything - Reagan told Spielberg during the 1982 White House E.T. screening, but not until now has the director spoken about it on the record. Spielberg's version of events, however, differs slightly from the version that has entered UFO-lore. According to Spielberg, Reagan did not address his remarks to him personally, but rather - and more remarkably - to all guests in the room collectively (some of whom were astronauts). Here is what happened in Spielberg's own words: "It was in the White House screening room and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the President, the First Lady and all of their guests, which included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week of as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts… I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain, but it was an amazing, amazing evening. He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, 'I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,' and then he looked around the room and said, 'And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.' And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it." CONTINUE READING: silverscreensaucers.blogspot.com/2011/06/reagan-wasnt-joking-and-spielberg-knows.html
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Post by paulette on Dec 5, 2011 12:44:22 GMT -6
Good info. What I remember most about Close Encounters was the lead guy (Drifess?) drivenness to keep trying to figure out what was in his head - to the point that his wife thought he was nuts. The mashed potatoes scene - in which something as innoculous as eating dinner could give him a clue...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2011 12:58:01 GMT -6
Spielberg is amazing..he can make you believe just about anything Super 8 wasn't as involved as much of his work but it was entertaining.
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Post by casper on Dec 9, 2011 18:57:24 GMT -6
Good info. What I remember most about Close Encounters was the lead guy (Drifess?) drivenness to keep trying to figure out what was in his head - to the point that his wife thought he was nuts. The mashed potatoes scene - in which something as innoculous as eating dinner could give him a clue... I just watched Close encounters and it was pretty good for an old movie. Richard drefuss was the lead guy. I liked when he built that big mountain out of mud in his living room and then it showed up on the tv.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2011 23:24:57 GMT -6
Good info. What I remember most about Close Encounters was the lead guy (Drifess?) drivenness to keep trying to figure out what was in his head - to the point that his wife thought he was nuts. The mashed potatoes scene - in which something as innoculous as eating dinner could give him a clue... I just watched Close encounters and it was pretty good for an old movie. Richard drefuss was the lead guy. I liked when he built that big mountain out of mud in his living room and then it showed up on the tv. You just now saw that movie for the first time? Really?
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Post by casper on Dec 10, 2011 21:41:03 GMT -6
I saw it a long time ago when I was alittle kid. I didn't really care much for aliens tho. If it would have had a ghost in it I would have been all over it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 13:08:33 GMT -6
"close encounters of the third kind" was on Tv last night. It came out originally when I was 11 yrs. old. I thought it might be fun to watch. You know, notice parts I didn't notice before, etc. I'm pretty sure I've seen the whole movie before, just probably not at a movie theatre . I was BOTHERED. What?! I only watched about 45 minutes into it and shut it off. Even the cute little kid smiling (and he has a "good fate" at the end) bothered me terribly. Richard Dreyfuss is classic, but laying in bed later last night I remembered that he decides to leave his wife and two kids for adventures in Space (?). Is that all the "bothered" is? That I'm seeing this movie through the eyes of an adult? I don't recall this movie doing anything to my emotions as a teenager. I would expect some parts to be remembered as scary. It is scary.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 15:01:50 GMT -6
I watched that (CE-3) movie a couple years ago on the internet. I had seen it several times when I was a child and a young teenager.
You know about the group of dudes in Asia who are singing the tones they heard from the heavens? Well, when they were discussing it in the lecture hall setting, the French dude was making hand gestures to describe the tones.
I had never noticed that before, but while I was in choir in high School, I learned the "sign language" version of the tones of the major scale... our teacher taught it to us...
Of course, a person like me wonders WHY on EARTH does anyone want to explain music to someone who is deaf... but I suppose it doesn't really matter... ;D
In the ending of the movie when the alien and the French dude are facing one another, he made the sign language symbols for the musical tones sung by those guys in Asia, and the alien repeated the symbols. I had not really noticed that before when I was younger... but yea.
Just thought I would point that out in case anyone was interested... ~shrug~
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 20:33:33 GMT -6
I only know sign language enough to spell "Jesus". So I can sign His name when I can't speak in dreams. . How about this "new" sign that people say represents the goats head or the devil? People used it way back when at rock n roll concerts. Before that it was used to ward off "the evil eye". (smirk). anyhow, one part I did see last night (of CE-3) and only vaguely remembered, was the part where the "hick" looking family was parked around the bend of a road. Casually they waited for ufos to show up (which they did). It was like the dad of the family had an "inside track" to where they would show up.
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Post by Steve on Dec 28, 2011 23:25:20 GMT -6
This scene speaks volumes to me about Ufology. Glad who ever posted it in my image search thought so too. An unpopular, misunderstood and lonely path that - in the film's ending at least - results in a profound scientific payoff. (maybe them going broke renting the hall too) JC, that is one of the fun left unspoken things about the movie I liked. There are some strange nuances about the whole phenomenon like that the film captures. Why they knew something was about to go down. No one knows why, it is just is. Some seem to have this inside track, or at least that is the fond wish about the mystery of telling a good story, which most UFO cases are. I thought having famous and also well respected French film director Francois Truffaut play one of the film's leads as 'Lacombe' was such a brilliant stroke. In conversations with people, I am struck there are a few interested in UFO's who still have not yet seen this now classic film. In a way I envy them, because I wish I could imagine seeing it again as if for the first time too. I remember those characters. The ones standing in the back on the bed of the pickup truck, with this weird knowing expectation. Little Barry who knew so too, and with delight exclaims "Ice cream!" seeing the cone shaped object in that zanny chase that follows. The man who stands up in expectation of the UFO's on the road was wonderful character actor Robert Blossom who just passed away this year in July 2011. He is more remembered for his role as 'old Man Marley' in 'Home Alone'. Thank you Robert. He said it best when in the film Blossom's character holds up a sign saying 'stop and be friendly'. Later at the press conference he mentions 'Big Foot'. ;D The unforgettable mashed Potatoes scene 'Dad is still dad.' I had a case in California in which the witnesses triangle object amazingly matched an identical description of an object, (even down to the objects off set windows) to a case in New Jersey. I am always searching past cases for comparisons. The New Jersey witness was very open to being interviewed long distance. The witness was a retired successful businessman who had an object pass very low over his backyard astronomical observatory. It pretty much shook him up by the experience, especially the entities seen clearly gazing down at him as it passed silently low over him. He thought it was going to crash. He admitted in my interview he even starting to play with his mashed potatoes after that. Life imitating art. Noticing this, his wife asked him perhaps he should talk to their Pastor. In their private meeting, the pastor happily was quite opened minded about his experience, and admitted for the first time he had had a close encounter too himself once. Steve
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Post by skywalker on Dec 29, 2011 12:32:26 GMT -6
Those triangles do look very similar. I wonder what the offset square is for?
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Post by Steve on Dec 29, 2011 13:06:53 GMT -6
Those triangles do look very similar. I wonder what the offset square is for? According to the New Jersey witness (the G. Filer investigator), it was a large bay with windows inside it. It was where the entities gazing down at him were located as it passed over him the witness claimed. Steve
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2011 14:10:04 GMT -6
Robert Blossom, eh. I can picture him as the neighbor in Home Alone that needed to reconcile with his son . Funny how these type of things overlap in my life. Mr. Blossom's character portrayal, the things he said about why he and his son no longer talk (in Home Alone), has been a part of my "hope basket" the past 3 years. You see, my son and I said some really mean things to each other in December of 2008, and we didn't speak for almost 9 mo. I kept telling myself that maybe we would be close again. . . course my son (and I) are a lot younger, but to me that just made our rift the more terrifying; I had truly lost my son. Our time together this Christmas Eve was AWESOME! ;D Back to CE-3, I have to really sit down and think about all the nuances (as Steve called them ) that were depicted in the movie of 1977! Steve, do you have a 'working list' of anything that has changed since then? Obviously better descriptions of the ships from witnesses. oh, if anyone wants to chime in I would be pleased. Just because I was born during the major flap of 1966 doesn't mean I know anything. But here is my next question: In the CE-3 movie, when Richard Dreyfuss character nears the mountain, there's a part I truly don't understand. And this is from memory. It's a bright sunny day, and the movie starts showing humans wearing no-contamination suits. Then it shows cows (that were recently grazing) laying on the sides of the road or in open fields. Then one of the suited up guys pulls a little cage out of Dreyfuss' (?) vehicle that is housing two dead (or asleep?) birds (he had gotten them recently alive). What happened here to these animals? Dreyfuss (and others) were not wearing protective suits.
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Post by skywalker on Dec 29, 2011 14:51:39 GMT -6
The government was trying to convince people that a cloud of deadly toxic gas had been accidentally spilled in the area so that the people would evacuate. The military "gassed" some of the cows and other animals with sleeping gas to make it look like they were dead. If you watch the movie you will see that when one of the contamination suit wearing dudes takes the birds out of the car he sprayed them with the sleeping gas first. I like Close Encounters. It's one of my favorite UFO films. I recently watched The Fourth Kind again and was just as disappointed as I was the first time I saw it. Tonight I'm going to watch Super 8 for the third time.
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Post by skywalker on Dec 29, 2011 14:54:39 GMT -6
I can also fully relate to the driven feeling that the people in that movie had that caused them to want to find out what was happening to them. I feel that same way much of the time. I can understand their frustration too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2011 23:59:02 GMT -6
oh yeah, gas. Thanks sky!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 1:13:13 GMT -6
This scene speaks volumes to me about Ufology. Glad who ever posted it in my image search thought so too. An unpopular, misunderstood and lonely path that - in the film's ending at least - results in a profound scientific payoff. (maybe them going broke renting the hall too) That's the sign language symbol for "Re" the second tone in the major scale. ;D ~is a nerd~
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Post by Steve on Dec 30, 2011 5:31:36 GMT -6
Steve, do you have a 'working list' of anything that has changed since then? Obviously better descriptions of the ships from witnesses. Hi JC, There is a scene where the buses and trucks are loading up to move immediately to Devils Tower, Wyoming. They have just interpreted the radio signals are actually longitude and latitude for Devils Tower. Near by a team known in the film credits as the dirty tricks team is trying to come up with a way to clear the rancher population to reduce as much as possible the number of witnesses, so they create a scheme of a train derailment leaking anthrax toxic gas - "something so scary it will scare the helll out of every living Christian soul". ;D So back in 1977, not long after Watergate, the public suspicions about a government UFO cover-up was already well established, and widened further in the public's mind by the popularity of this film. How has Ufology changed since 1977? Much has changed! Alien abduction reports increased several fold. The Budd Hopkin's research and his books would in a few years make 'Alien Abduction' almost a house hold word. In a year or two (1979), the Roswell story and all that surrounds it would break. You begin to see a major increase in large Triangle reports since 1977, large silent almost majestic descriptions of enormous objects defying gravity and obviously not airborne due to any aerodynamic means. More reports of rumors of other possible UFO crash claims - many seeming to coattail of the Roswell story. About three years after the film's release, the Rendelsham Forest incident in the United kingdom occurs (December 1980). Most of the accounts in the film's story line elude to a number of unexplained 'Blue Book' cases - in the film, particularly the police cars in pursuit of the UFO's on the interstate. (toll booth scene). These scenes are inspired directly by the famous Portage County UFO chase in 1966. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County_UFO_chaseThis was probably directly due to Hynek's classic book 'The UFO Experience: A scientific Inquiry', now a classic published in 1972, upon which much of the film was inspired by. This book introduced to the public and the culture the term 'Close encounter of the .....Kind'. Hynek's classification system. It became the title of the film and Hynek was hired briefly becoming the film's technical advisor to Spielberg. Dr. Hynek with his famous pipe makes a brief cameo appearance in the film near the end after the mother ship arrives. In the three or four second cameo scene, he walks up to the camera to get a better view of the mother ship, he takes his pipe out of his mouth and strokes his beard once, astonished seemingly by what he sees. Glad Spielberg included this, it would seem only fitting both for the scene in the story and for this great astronomer & gentleman. This cameo appearance and other little things examples of those 'nuances' I referred earlier to. His close friend and colleague well respected Ted Phillips who worked closely with Hynek on the famous 1964 Socorro landing case and many more following, later encouraged Phillips to focus his work on CE-2 (physical trace) cases. Ted now has that famous pipe, willed to him by Hynek's widow. Speaking personally with Ted, he commented to me it is one of his most cherished possessions of his close friend. Steve
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 8:24:23 GMT -6
Thanks Steve . Again, I am encouraged that "art imitates life" .
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Post by skywalker on Jan 1, 2012 1:17:16 GMT -6
I'm watching Super 8 again (for the fourth time ) and I keep noticing things that remind me of some of Spielberg's old movies. For instance the music is reminiscent of both Jurassic Park and Jaws, and the cable repair guys name is Brody, which was the name of the police Chief in Jaws.If I notice anything else I'll let you know.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 1, 2012 14:55:57 GMT -6
I noticed some more interesting little insignificant details from the Super 8 movie. The boy who is the main character has a lot of Star Wars toys and comic books in his room, and there is a scene where a little kid is pounding on the dinner table with a plastic bat and the mom takes it away so the kid picks up another bat and keeps pounding away. Close Encounters also had a similar scene where the kids were pounding on stuff with palstic bats. Another toy in the boy's room is a tiny little model of a Grey alien...possibly similar to the ones in the Close Encounters movie. Were there any other movies from way back then that had Grey aliens?
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Post by skywalker on Jan 1, 2012 15:23:05 GMT -6
This movie is just full of Spielbergian moments. When the sheriff is getting gas you can here what sounds like Star Wars droids talking on the radio, and later when the Deputy is investigating the monster attack at the gas station one of the old guys who is there says, "I think this is most likely a bear attack." That's the same thing some guy said in Jaws when they were wondering what was going around killing people. Stay tuned for more irrelevant but interesting info...
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Post by Steve on Jan 8, 2012 3:19:07 GMT -6
Steven Spielberg Cameo appearances.
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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2012 20:14:36 GMT -6
That was interesting. I had no idea he was in some of those.
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Post by Steve on Jan 28, 2012 4:12:49 GMT -6
Steve Spielberg's first comerical film at 17. UFO's of course! So this theme with Steve runs deep. "brief glance back to a time and place of considerable significance in the history of Hollywood's longstanding love affair with aliens; specifically, to 1964, when, at the Phoenix Little Theatre, in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona, a 17-year-old Steven Spielberg premiered his first-ever UFO movie - the 8mm 'Firelight'. The film cost Spielberg $500 to produce and, having managed to sell an impressive 500 tickets for the premiere at $1 each, it was his first commercial success (it made a profit of $1 dollar: "I think somebody probably paid two dollars," Spielberg later surmised)." Seventeen year old Steven Spielberg (1964).
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Post by skywalker on Jan 28, 2012 18:50:43 GMT -6
From such humble beginnings...
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