During the Neary dinner scene, just before Roy piles on the mashed potatoes, the little girl Silvia (Adrienne Campbell) says: "There's a dead fly in my potatoes." This was unscripted and almost caused the rest of the cast to laugh. The scene was kept as-is. Show 528 of 532 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cary Guffey's performances were so good that they only had to do one or two takes of each shot he was in. He became known as "One-Take Cary" on the set, and director Steven Spielberg had a T-shirt printed up for him with the phrase written on it. 403 of 407 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The iconic five-note melody was a chance arrangement that both composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg happened to like out of hundreds of different permutations. The tone was later used in Moonraker (1979) and again in the cue line in Star Tours (1987). 357 of 362 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The film was partly inspired by an experience from Steven Spielberg's childhood when, without advanced warning, his parents rushed the children into their car one night, drove to an area where many others were gathered, and watched a spectacular meteor shower. 424 of 434 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The John Williams score was created before the film was edited. Steven Spielberg edited the film to match the music, a reverse of what is usually done in the film scoring process. Both Spielberg and Williams felt that it ultimately gave the film a lyrical feel. 307 of 314 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Director Steven Spielberg stated that nothing in his life had been more difficult than editing the final 35 minutes of this film. 383 of 393 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The words that the crowd in India chants are "Aaya Re! Aaya," which means "He has come" in Hindi. 300 of 307 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by Cary Guffey's performance that he wanted him to play Danny Torrance in The Shining (1980). However, Kubrick didn't get him for the role because of schedule conflicts (Guffey was filming Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre (1979) and its sequel Chissà perché... capitano tutte a me (1980)), casting Danny Lloyd instead. 382 of 392 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Douglas Trumbull achieved the dramatic cloud effects by filling a tank half full of salt water with lighter fresh water on top, then injecting paint into the top layer. The paint billowed through the fresh water but flattened out at the top of the heavier salt water, creating the effect we see on screen. 213 of 217 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Richard Dreyfuss had become quite interested in the ideas behind Close Encounters of the Third Kind when he heard Steven Spielberg talking about them on the set of Jaws (1975). When Dreyfuss heard that casting for the film was underway, he made a concerted effort to persuade Spielberg to take him on. 241 of 246 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options For the scene in which Barry says "toys!" as he looks out the window and spots the UFOs, Steven Spielberg actually pulled out a toy car behind the camera to cause Barry's reaction. 230 of 235 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg ran a few tests of computer generated imagery (CGI), now the industry standard, but then in its very first stages of development. He decided none of it looked believable. 201 of 205 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options This film is shown every night at the Devil's Tower KOA Campground, thereby making it one of the most screened movies ever. 297 of 305 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The situation on U.S. Navy Flight 19, from which the airplanes that appear in the Mexican desert came, disappeared off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in December 1945. No trace has ever been found of "the Lost Flight 19," which left the Naval Air Station near there in 1945. 264 of 271 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options According to Melinda Dillon, because it was done without rehearsal, the scene in the kitchen with all the objects flying around was truly scary, and her alarmed reactions were often quite real and spontaneous as she tried to protect herself and Cary Guffey. 187 of 191 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The scene in which Jillian sees the image of Devil's Tower on TV while staying in a motel was not in the original shooting script. As written, Jillian was to have remained in her house, shut off from the outside world. During production, however, Steven Spielberg decided it was better to show that Jillian had traveled out west searching for her missing son, and so the set of a New Mexico-style motel room was hastily built to film the scene. 64 of 64 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options François Truffaut's English was not strong. To get through some of his scenes, he stuck pieces of paper with his lines on them on various objects where he could read them and the camera would not pick them up. In one case, as he argues face to face with an Army officer (who has his back to the camera), he is reading his lines off a card pinned to the man's chest. He had shown the same trick to an actress who was having trouble with her lines in La nuit américaine (1973), in which he played the director of the movie-within-the-movie. 197 of 202 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Became one of the first films to have a "Special Edition" director's cut made when Steven Spielberg wanted to improve his original vision. 183 of 188 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Ray Bradbury declared this the greatest science fiction film ever made. 323 of 335 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Tuba player Jim Self is the "musical voice" of the mothership in the climactic scene when the big ship comes down on Devil's Tower. Steven Spielberg and John Williams chose the tuba as the voice of the mothership because the difficulty of playing the instrument added a human characteristic to the aliens. 155 of 159 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The actors had to spend a lot of time acting to objects and things that weren't there and being told by Steven Spielberg what they were looking at and how to react. "For weeks we were just sitting on a rock, shifting positions, pretending to look at the landing site and the sky," Melinda Dillon said. "It was a great acting exercise." François Truffaut, however, found it very difficult, finally giving himself over to be nothing more than another object in the "grand cartoon strip" of 2,000 storyboard sketches Spielberg had shown him. When Richard Dreyfuss saw the final picture, he was upset with several moments of his performance, believing he would have reacted quite differently if he had seen the actual effects. 104 of 106 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options For the scene where Richard Dreyfuss appears to go weightless in his truck in his first encounter with flying saucers, his truck was put on a turntable and rotated 360 degrees. 180 of 186 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Melinda Dillon was suffering from a broken big toe when location shooting began in May 1976 at Devil's Tower. Afraid she might be replaced, Dillon toughed it out during the filming of scenes in which she, Richard Dreyfuss and Josef Sommer (as Larry Butler) make a run for the mountain. 100 of 102 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Paul Schrader wrote the original script. When Steven Spielberg changed a great deal of it, Schrader decided to remove his credit. Since the film couldn't be left with no credit for writing, Spielberg claimed it for himself. 210 of 218 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the lights go out in the Neary house during the blackout, the miniature lakes on Roy's model train layout continue to glow in the dark. This was supposed to have been the payoff for an earlier conversation cut from the film in which Roy's son Toby accused his father of stealing his luminous paint, which Roy insisted was not true. 74 of 75 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options No one was more surprised than Steven Spielberg when his first choice to play the Frenchman - François Truffaut - said yes to appearing in his first American film. 171 of 177 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Richard Dreyfuss lobbied heavily for the part of Roy, but Steven Spielberg thought he was too young for the role. However, Spielberg came to see Dreyfuss as exhibiting and embodying the child like characteristics he wanted for Roy, resulting in casting Dreyfuss for the part. 47 of 47 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Real air traffic controllers were used in the opening sequence. In addition, the synthesizer technician/performer was the actual engineer sent by ARP Instruments to install the synthesizer equipment on the set, an ARP 2500. ARP Instruments (short for Alan Robert Pearlman, its founder) was a company which specialized in the manufacturing of synthesizers and electronic music, created in 1969 and closed in 1981 after money troubles caused its bankruptcy. Steven Spielberg watched the expert playing the equipment and immediately cast him for the role, playing it close at the ending in the musical conversation with Mothership. The name of the ARP engineer is Philip Dodds, who is mentioned in the credits as "ARP Musician". Close Encounters was his only appearance in a movie or series. 205 of 214 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The working title was "Watch the Skies," the closing words from The Thing from Another World (1951). These words also can be heard in the cartoon that wakes Neary. 105 of 108 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Stuntman Craig R. Baxley was injured during the sequence where the police cars are chasing the UFOs on a mountain road. This stunt called for him to skid around a turn, go through a fence and over an embankment, but Baxley was traveling too fast, and he overshot the area where he was supposed to land. His car landed too hard and, even though he was wearing a helmet, he received head injuries. He was hospitalized for several days. 100 of 103 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In an interview for the "making-of" featurette on the DVD release, a grown Cary Guffey said it was embarrassing for him to shoot the scene of him exiting the mother ship because he had to wear ballet slippers to keep him from sliding on the ramp. 81 of 83 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One idea tried and later deemed unsatisfactory involved filming the aliens mingling among human technicians, played by mimes. Steven Spielberg directed the mimes to move in slow motion so that when the film was sped up, the aliens appeared to be moving very fast compared to the technicians. 62 of 63 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options J. Allen Hynek was a famous ufologist and the creator of the diverse kinds of contact with extra-terrestrial life, as explained in his book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study" (1972). The first kind: sighting of one or more UFOs. The second kind: observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. The third kind: contact with one or more extra-terrestrials. Hynek made a cameo at the ending in the movie, credited as "Smoking Pipe at Landing Site". 216 of 227 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg knew only vaguely what the mothership would look like when he was filming the live action scenes; he decided it would be big, hulking, and very dark. While filming in India months later, he drove past a giant oil refinery every day and was inspired by the many lights and pipes and outcroppings on the rig to change the look of the spaceship. He now decided it would be brightly lit, which is how it appears in the final film, even though the footage of it casting a dark shadow over the crowd had already been shot. 124 of 129 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Bob Balaban had not spoken French since high school. When Spielberg asked Balanan over the phone if he did speak French, he answered in bad French that he did not speak much, half hoping that someone in the room, overhearing the call, could at least know enough French to hear that he was no good at it, but no one did. Balaban auditioned in French. He then attended Berlitz classes to refine his French, and spent hours talking to Truffaut in preparation for his role. In 1980 the two filmed additional footage for the revised Special Edition of "Encounters." 165 of 173 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg was intimidated by the prospect of asking one of his cinematic heroes, François Truffaut, to play the part of Lacombe. Truffaut liked Spielberg's work and agreed but told him, "I am not an actor; I can only play myself." Spielberg replied that was exactly what he wanted, and Truffaut signed on for $75,000. 106 of 110 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Most of the UFO miniatures were filmed in dark, smoke-filled rooms to give them a halo effect and so the beams of light emanating from them would be more prominent. 118 of 123 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg was originally aiming for a Summer 1978 release date for the film, but Columbia Pictures - on the verge of bankruptcy - spurred him to finish it for late 1977. This meant that Spielberg felt rushed, and had left important elements out of the film. Because of the large success on its first theatrical run, Columbia was happy to give Spielberg another $2 million to film the interior of the alien spaceship for "The Special Edition." In retrospect, Spielberg now acknowledges that doing all of this addition was unnecessary. 145 of 152 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The ship found in the Gobi Desert, "The Cotopaxi," is an actual tramp steamer that went down in the Bermuda Triangle in December of 1925. Oddly enough (although it's never mentioned openly), Flight 19's five planes found at the beginning in the Sonora Desert also disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in December 5, 1945. It was popularized by writer Charles Berlitz in his 1978 best seller "The Bermuda Triangle", that it turned the triangle into a world wide icon of mystery. Bermuda Triangle is a geographical zone in the Atlantic Ocean of which the three vertices are Florida, island of Puerto Rico and Islands of Bermuda. There are dozens of recorded strange phenomenons, including the disappearances of boats and planes. On January 2020, and after 15 years of investigation by marine biologist Michael Barnette, a shipwreck known as Bear Wreck could be successfully identified as The Cotopaxi, lying 35 nautical miles (40 miles or 65 kilometers) off St. Augustine, Florida. 165 of 174 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The last scene to be filmed was the opening scene in the Sonora desert. 105 of 110 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After a while, François Truffaut found the long shoot tiring and he was frustrated over not being able to get on with his own directing work. He also got a good dose of Hollywood reality, noting to Teri Garr that for the $250,000 it cost to do a single helicopter shot, he could make an entire movie. Still, the experience gave him good insight into what it takes to act in film. All in all, Truffaut respected Steven Spielberg for his outward calm, patience and good humour and found that despite his own relative lack of experience in front of the camera (having acted only twice in his own movies), "several times during the shooting [Spielberg] made me...come out of myself. Thanks to that, I discovered a real pleasure as an actor." Truffaut also added, "In the face of overwhelming hardships and innumerable complications that would, I suspect, have discouraged most directors, Steven Spielberg's perseverance and fortitude were simply amazing." 141 of 149 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Vilmos Zsigmond, the director of photography on The Sugarland Express (1974), returned to work with Spielberg after passing up the job of shooting Jaws (1975). He found the director more commanding and less eager to discuss options than previously, but Zsigmond was enthusiastic to be on the picture. "[Close Encounters] had the smell of a great movie. We fell into sandtraps not because anybody made mistakes but because we were making things that had never been done before." Zsigmond found himself blamed for many of those "sandtraps" by producer Julia Phillips and the studio, who almost fired him over his insistence that he needed at least one day to pre-light the enormous set. Nevertheless, Zsigmond refused to give in to pressure to use less lighting, and he was supported in this by Spielberg and especially Trumbull, who knew what it would take to match the scenes to the special effects. After the first two months of shooting in Mobile, when studio executives and financial backers began to show up on set, Phillips insisted on firing him. Several other cinematographers were called as potential replacements--John A. Alonzo, László Kovács, Ernest Laszlo--but most of them were friends of Zsigmond and agreed that if he couldn't handle the job, no one could. 75 of 78 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options According to Julia Phillips in her autobiography "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again", she and the studio did not want to meet Richard Dreyfuss' price of $500,000 plus gross points to play Roy Neary and offered the script to Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, and Gene Hackman. Pacino wasn't interested, and Nicholson thought that any actor would be overwhelmed by the special effects. Hackman turned down the role because he was in a troubled marriage and could not spend 16 weeks outside of Los Angeles on location-shooting. The studio suggested James Caan, but his agent wanted $1 million plus 10% of the gross. Phillips went back to Dreyfuss and cut his deal back a bit, and he became immortalized on film as Roy Neary. 162 of 173 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The large, long-armed alien character who came to be known as Puck was a puppet created by marionette maker Bob Baker with an upper torso and head and articulating features for close-ups by Carlo Rambaldi, who had created the ape's face in the remake of King Kong (1976). Eight people operated the mechanisms to control the puppet, and Steven Spielberg was so pleased with it, according to Rambaldi, he often played with it. The face worked particularly well in the moment when the creature exchanges beaming smiles with Lacombe. François Truffaut became so enchanted with it, he would go over to greet it every morning on the set. 81 of 85 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg was eager to show François Truffaut the giant landing site set, hoping to impress the other director. Truffaut didn't seem to be impressed at all. Spielberg and his crewmates later realized that Truffaut was used to directing movies in small, intimate settings, and Truffaut simply could not grasp the scale of the landing site. When he went into the set of the hotel room where Jillian watches the Devil's Tower newscast, Truffaut stood in the middle of the room, raised his arms up, and said, "Now, THIS is a set!" 144 of 154 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Lacombe is François Truffaut's only acting role in a film that he did not direct. 123 of 131 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In a new technique, the special effects were produced in 70mm. A live action shot which would later have a special effect added would also be shot in 70mm. The rest of the film was shot in 35mm. When the 70mm special effects shot was overlaid on the 70mm live action, the overall graininess was the same as normal, non-effect 35mm film, thus matching the rest of the film, even after the completed film was blown up to 70mm prints. This was to avoid the effect Steven Spielberg had noticed in previous effects-laden films, where the audience could tell when a special effect was coming up, because of the change in the grain of the shot. 97 of 103 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options It is possible to see an upside down R2-D2 (from Star Wars (1977)) in part of the large spacecraft that flies over Devil's Tower. The SFX people needed more detail, and so supposedly there are many more such items, including as a shark from Jaws (1975) (also directed by Steven Spielberg). R2-D2 is visible as Jillian first sees the mothership up close from her hiding place among the rocks. 144 of 155 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The mothership is now located at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, south of the Dulles Airport, in Chantilly, VA. Visible on it are a miniature R2-D2, a mailbox, a cemetery, and models of the airplanes that were abducted by the ship. 115 of 123 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond overexposed the scenes with the extraterrestrials deliberately so they would appear fuzzy and diffused. When producer Julia Phillips saw the footage, she thought he had made a mistake and ordered the film reprocessed so that the aliens came out with a normal contrast, which resulted in their rubber heads and suits looking obviously fake. She then told Zsigmond he'd botched up the filming and it looked awful. The upset Zsigmond told the lab to reprocess the film the way he originally requested and everything looked fine in dailies the next day. 143 of 154 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The hand signals are actually used by classroom teachers to teach the solfege scale. They were invented by the Reverend John Curwen, an English Congregationalist minister, and then adapted by composer Zoltán Kodály. 114 of 122 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Production designer Joe Alves chose an old farmhouse located outside Fairhope, Alabama, for the Guiler home, feeling it had a lonely quality suited to Jillian's character as a free spirit. 27 of 27 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Melinda Dillon - who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance - was not cast until the weekend before she was due to begin filming. 84 of 89 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg edited the film secretly and under guard, not at the studio, but in a rented apartment in Marina del Rey. 63 of 66 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the scene where Ronnie cuts out a newspaper article about the UFO sightings, the night after Roy's first glimpse of the UFOs, an article on Star Wars (1977) appears on the other side of the UFO article. 121 of 130 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The nine foot diameter model of the mothership that was used in the final sequences was kept locked up in Steven Spielberg's garage to help prevent pictures of it from appearing in the media before the release of the film. 62 of 65 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Because the future of Columbia Pictures was riding on the success of the film, and because Steven Spielberg wanted to prevent any made-for-TV ripoffs, the film was made under extreme secrecy. To prevent anyone not directly involved with the production from sneaking onto the set, everyone working on the film was required to wear an ID badge, and on one occasion Spielberg himself was barred from entry when he showed up without his. 39 of 40 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options A model miniature was used for some of the shots in the climactic scene. At least part of the illumination coming out of the ship was created by a set of Christmas lights strung up on the back of a metal plate, behind little tiny alien figures, creating the silhouetted look we see. This was composited into a shot with real-life actors. 50 of 52 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg first considered doing a documentary or a low-budget feature film about people who believed in UFOs. 38 of 39 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One early concept for interpreting the aliens included an orangutan on roller skates. The idea did not work, because the orangutan became very frightened the second its roller skates touched the ground, and it kept grabbing onto the arms of its caretaker. 96 of 103 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The humans communicate with the aliens by making music with their computers. Writer-director Steven Spielberg's mother was a musician and his father was a computer scientist. Spielberg himself had not thought of this until it was pointed out by James Lipton in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio (1994). 130 of 141 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg and Joe Alves at first thought they would build the landing site in Monument Valley but realized that would present great difficulties in controlling climate and lighting conditions. They settled on an abandoned hangar near Mobile, Alabama where they thought they'd have greater control over the enormous $700,000 set. Bigger than a football field and six times the size of the largest Hollywood sound stage, the hangar harbored its own climate, trapping humidity that sometimes caused clouds and precipitation during filming. Dozens of very large lights were needed, and the 200 extras involved necessitated careful logistics of movement. All of this meant frequent delays and rising costs. The scenes filmed on this set accounted for only about a fifth of the film's running time but took up approximately half of the shooting schedule. Spielberg stated, "That set became our shark on this picture." 67 of 71 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Actor Bob Balaban kept a diary of behind-the-scenes events during production. This diary was published to tie-in with the release of the film. 76 of 81 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options All of the stars in the background of the night shots, as well as many distant trees, hills, roads, etc. were special effects and not real. This is true even in non-special effect shots, such as when Neary's truck is just driving along country roads. 75 of 80 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Richard Dreyfuss's father was an extra in the film and spent six months on location; however, the scenes in which he appeared never made the final cut. 64 of 68 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Near the end of the film, when the crowd facing the huge docked UFO seems to be waiting to see what will happen next, the late honored French pianist and teacher, Odette Gartenlaub, uncredited, stands up from an organ on which she had been playing the 5-note musical "motif" among a number of other organists. She appears near François Truffaut, but is not acknowledged and quickly disappears. She was an expert at music theory, which includes the hand signals used to communicate the motif. 64 of 68 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The character of Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) is based on real-life French UFO expert Jacques Vallée, considered as one of the greatest UFO investigators of the 20th century. 70 of 75 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Opened the same week that Star Wars (1977) overtook Jaws (1975) to become the biggest blockbuster of all time. 117 of 128 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The federal agent-types on stage with Lacombe during the auditorium scene in which he teaches the hand signals were real federal agents. Similarly, some of the extras who played scientists in the end sequence were real scientists. However, one of the "agents" was actually the principal of Foley High School in Foley AL, a town near Mobile AL, and was an actor in local theaters. 58 of 62 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Although often thought to be a reference to the Dawn of Man sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the mechanical monkey seen clanging the cymbals in Barry's room was actually meant as an homage to a scene featuring the same toy in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). 21 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg cast Teri Garr in the film after seeing her work in a coffee commercial. He was impressed that she was able to convey a wide range of emotions in just a 30-second clip. 80 of 87 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Production designer Joe Alves drove 2,700 miles through the West to find a suitable mountain site for the mother ship landing. He finally suggested Devil's Tower in Wyoming, which closely resembled prominent features of Monument Valley, where John Ford shot movies like The Searchers (1956). Devil's Tower was preferable because it was less familiar to movie audiences and a more solitary and abrupt intrusion on the landscape. These features made the sheer, jagged-edge rock rising nearly 1,300 feet from the surrounding terrain eerie and imposing. 40 of 42 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The film holds the record for most cinematographers on a production (11, counting the Special Edition). 71 of 77 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The musical score heard coming from the television when Roy's kids are watching The Ten Commandments (1956) is actually an original piece of music John Williams created for the film called "The Eleventh Commandment". 20 of 20 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Although Steven Spielberg continued to support Vilmos Zsigmond, creating what the cinematographer called "a very rewarding" experience, Zsigmond was not asked to shoot additional sequences and shots that were needed after the company left Alabama. He believed this was largely the work of Julia Phillips and the studio. Although Zsigmond shot about 90 percent of the picture, additional material (the India sequence, the discovery of the lost Air Force squadron, etc.) was shot by others, primarily William A. Fraker, as well as Douglas Slocombe, John A. Alonzo, and László Kovács, all of whom received on-screen credit as additional directors of photography, a vindictive move by Phillips, by her own admission. 44 of 47 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options A highly detailed miniature and the filming technique "forced perspective" were used to create the effect of an ocean freighter left stranded in the Gobi desert. 51 of 55 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Because the complicated and extensive visual effects were stretching the limits of what had been done before, Steven Spielberg also discovered a difficult new challenge in having to shoot scenes without an exact idea of how they would look when Douglas Trumbull completed them and added them to the film in post-production, months after principal photography was finished. On Jaws, the effects were difficult, but they were mechanical and physical, right there before him every day. The unknown of working around optical effects to be added later meant a more tense on-set atmosphere. Trumbull said, "I'll never be able to thank him enough for having the confidence and the patience to see it through time and not panic. There was enormous pressure on the production all the time from the studio to keep moving on." 43 of 46 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Studio heads opposed the abduction of Barry by the aliens, feeling it would be too horrific for audiences, especially as it involved a small child. As a result they requested the filmmakers have an alternate scene in which Jillian had saved Barry from being carried away by the aliens. Filmmakers agreed and filmed the scene, but it went unused. 27 of 28 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The entire landing strip complex behind Devil's Tower was constructed and filmed in an abandoned aircraft hangar at the former Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama. 42 of 45 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Julia Phillips, who by this time had developed a serious cocaine problem and was divorced from producer Michael Philips, was forced off the picture by Columbia during post-production in 1977. 62 of 68 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The film originally ended with the version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" used in the film Pinocchio (1940), but it tested negatively in previews and was cut. That is why Roy Neary was trying to convince his family to see that film together just before the blackout. The song remains incorporated in the John Williams score, though. A toy can also be heard playing the melody right before Roy rips off the top off his sculpture. 68 of 75 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During a fierce summer storm, the side of the hangar blew off. Luckily no one was hurt, but the accident caused further delays while it was repaired. Richard Dreyfuss later said, "Part of the shoot was a nightmare. It went from fun to frightening." 34 of 36 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Major Benchley (played by George DiCenzo), the Air Force spokesman who shows a hoaxed photo of a flying saucer during the press conference, was named for "Jaws" author Peter Benchley, whom Steven Spielberg considered a skeptical personality. 17 of 17 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Gillian's phone number, seen when she tries to dial for help when the aliens come for Barry, is 311-555-2368. This number frequently appeared on phones in Bell Telephone print ads around the late 1960s. Area code 311 is not an Area Code in North America, and it never will be. 311 is used in recent times as a non-emergency number for municipal services. 40 of 43 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Two of the old AMT Star Trek (1966) model kits - the USS Enterprise and the Klingon Battle Cruiser (both painted silver) - can be seen hanging over Roy's model railroad layout, on which he fashions his clay model of Devil's Tower. 32 of 34 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options According to the book 'Reel Gags' by Bill Givens, Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia was an extra during the scenes in India, and he can be seen in a crowd shot. 62 of 69 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options From a budget of $20 million (sizeable at the time), this went on to become one of the top grossing films of the 1970s. 56 of 62 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options From the beginning when he took the part of Lacombe, François Truffaut made it quite clear that he was working strictly as an actor, and he had no interest in helping out as an assistant director. 60 of 67 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg repeatedly watched John Ford's The Searchers (1956) while he was making the film. 54 of 60 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of the reasons behind new cost increases was Steven Spielberg's decision to release the film in 70mm using a process that allowed for a wider magnetic sound track to let him create greater audio impact as well as visual. 36 of 39 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The UFO landing site built for the movie was 27 m high, 137 m long, and 76 m wide, making it the largest indoor film set ever constructed. The structure included 6.4 km of scaffolding, 1570 square metres of fibreglass, and 2740 square metres of nylon canopy. 52 of 58 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options While making Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg was sure he was in the midst of the most difficult production he would ever have to tackle. He would come to find Close Encounters to be "twice as bad, and twice as expensive, as well." 45 of 50 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The darkening sky and the shape of the clouds forming in the scene before Jilian's son gets abducted by the aliens resembles that of the "Angel of Death" in The Ten Commandments (1956) that comes into the sky before the slaying of all the firstborn of Egypt begins. Also, Roy and his family are watching this movie on TV before he is called to work after the power failure. 49 of 55 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg and other producers wanted Walter Cronkite as newsreader for the broadcast that Neary ignores in the living room sculpture scene. However, CBS would not allow Cronkite to take the role, so producers settled on ABC's Howard K. Smith. Unfortunately, the news cutaway scene to Wyoming reporter was filmed before this decision; as a result, the reporter says "order your steak well done, Walter." In addition, during the interrogation of Neary by Lacombe, Neary shouts "you think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is?" 38 of 42 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options John Williams wanted the music to "convey a sense of awe and fascination" as well as "overwhelming happiness and excitement" at the prospect of seeing aliens for the first time. 43 of 48 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When principal photography began again on May 16, 1976, the budget had risen in stages to $11 million, and kept climbing as Steven Spielberg expanded his ideas. 20 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg had approached Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Gene Hackman for the role of Roy Neary. Jack Nicholson was also considered. McQueen turned the role down because he said he wasn't able to cry on film. 70 of 81 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cary Guffrey, four years old at the time of the film's production, was first discovered as a result of being a schoolmate of a Casting Director's Niece. 13 of 13 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The underside of the mothership was inspired by the lights of the San Fernando Valley at night. 48 of 55 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Originally, there was a different sequence filmed in which Lacombe and Laughlin met for the first time. In the earlier version, the two got together in a limo parked on the concourse at IND, where Lacombe had come to await the arrival of the plane which had just avoided a midair collision with an UFO. During the scene, Lacombe tested Laughlin's skills as an interpreter by having him translate part of an erotic book. When Steven Spielberg decided the movie needed a more impressive opening (it was originally supposed to begin with the air traffic control scene), he devised the sequence in which Lacombe and Laughlin meet in the Sonora desert. 12 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After visiting the set of this movie, George Lucas was sure Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) would outperform the yet-to-be-released Star Wars (1977) at the box office. Steven Spielberg disagreed, and felt Lucas' Star Wars would be the bigger hit. With the idea of earning some compensation in case Star Wars was a box office bomb, Lucas proposed a gentlemen's agreement with Spielberg, (as they were close friends from university), trading two and a half percent of the profit on each other's movies. Spielberg accepted the deal, and Lucas still receives two and a half percent of the profits from this movie, as Spielberg receives the same from Star Wars. 12 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Maurice White of the band Earth, Wind & Fire cited the movie as inspiration for the writing of the group's hit song Fantasy. 18 of 19 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options This is essentially an adult rethink of "Firelight," a movie that Steven Spielberg made as an adolescent. He even gave Douglas Trumbull and Vilmos Zsigmond notes that he'd made at that time, for their work on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." 33 of 37 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the project was first pitched to Columbia in 1973, Steven Spielberg said it would cost $2.7 million to make. Due to delays caused by script development problems, he went on to make Jaws (1975), a huge success that gave him more status and bargaining power with the studio. At that point, exhausted and frazzled from the difficult location work on the shark movie, Spielberg decided he wanted to make Close Encounters entirely in the studio, and the budget was set at $4.1 million. As time went on and production ideas and plans grew more elaborate, it became clear more money would be needed, a prospect not looked on favourably by the financially strapped studio. Douglas Trumbull was surprised by the original low budget because he had estimated early on that his effects alone would cost about $3 million. The final figure for effects was fairly close to that. 28 of 31 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Richard Dreyfuss hosted Saturday Night Live (1975) on May 13, 1978, he appeared as Roy Neary in a skit with the Coneheads called "Cone Encounters of the Third Kind." 28 of 31 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The production began shooting on December 29, 1975, at an air traffic control centre in Palmdale, California, so that Columbia, juggling its very shaky resources, could qualify for a tax shelter. That shoot wrapped after two days and filming would not resume again until the following May. 32 of 36 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Special effects were a part of more than 200 different shots in the movie, and some of them contained as many as 18 separate visual elements, including dozens of matte paintings and animated sequences. With no knowledge of such techniques, Steven Spielberg depended heavily on Douglas Trumbull. "If Trumbull hadn't accepted the job," Spielberg said in a 1978 article, "I'd still be on the Columbia back lot trying to get a cloud to materialize from thin air." 32 of 36 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the very beginning of the "space show" at the end of the film, the various dots (ships) doing their tricks in the sky form the "Big Dipper." This takes place just before Roy and Gillian laugh as they watch the objects in the sky. 36 of 41 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. 17 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options A digital system called the Electronic Motion Control System was employed to record and program camera movements so they could be duplicated in post-production when putting live-action photography together with the matching miniature effects. 21 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Several scenes were filmed around Mobile, AL, and many locals were cast. This is why several characters in the film have accents uncharacteristic of those from Indiana and Wyoming. 37 of 43 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options According to the novelization of the film, the Guilers had a dog named Barney, which explains the doggy door Barry crawls through when he's abducted by the aliens. 20 of 22 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In a conversation with Bob Balaban, François Truffaut, talking of his directorial career, said he had to choose his projects carefully, since he felt he only had about thirty more years in which to make films. Tragically he lived only another eight years after filming Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 36 of 42 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cary Guffey's performance was so outstanding, that his name was mentioned as a possible nominee for Best Supporting Actor, during the nominations process for the Academy Awards, in 1977. Had he been nominated, he would have been the youngest Oscar nominee, ever, at the age of 5. 24 of 27 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options To get the spaceships' attention prior to their arrival at Devil's Tower, the five notes the scientists play are G, A, F, (octave lower) F, C. When they arrive at the tower and are attempting communication, the notes they play are B flat, C, A flat, (octave lower) A flat, E flat. 49 of 59 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Douglas Trumbull and Steven Spielberg went through several conceptions of what the UFOs would look like. One abandoned idea was to have them resemble structures and logos familiar on Earth, such as those for McDonalds and Chevron, to suggest the aliens were using human symbols to make their crafts appear less threatening. 23 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options John Williams' iconic five-note melody that plays as the mother ship communicates with the scientists devolves into Williams' two-note chiller from Jaws (1975), a film in which Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss and Williams had earlier collaborated. 23 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Six "wrap parties" were held before the film completed its production, since Steven Spielberg was continually revising his vision of the film. 33 of 39 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the scene in which the power goes out at a McDonald's restaurant, the song "More Than a Feeling" by Boston can be heard coming from a car radio. This song appeared on the band's self-titled debut album in 1976 which, coincidentally, featured and inverted Ovation acoustic guitar to simulate a huge saucer-shaped spaceship on the cover. 33 of 39 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In 1978, Topps Chewing Gum Co. produced a set of 66 trading cards and 11 stickers based on the film. Ironically, because neither Richard Dreyfuss or François Truffaut had granted permission for the use of their likenesses, none of the cards featured photos of Roy Neary or Claude Lacombe, the film's two main characters. Instead, Topps' version of the story focused on Ronnie Neary and her children, and Jillian and Barry Guiler. 14 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The music heard playing when the UFOs fly through the toll gates is Slim Whitman's 1952 version of "Love Song of the Waterfall." 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The shot of a large saucer-shaped shadow passing over Roy's DWP truck as it crosses the countryside was added in the 1980 Special Edition. 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Production Designer Joe Alves recalled many of the locals around Devil's Tower were angered by the movie going through production there. On a subsequent visit to the area years later, he noticed a local gift shop selling souvenirs and memorabilia relating to the film. 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg became obsessive with attention to detail, looking for the highest grade of realism portraying the daily life of Jillian Guiler and Neary family. It can be appreciated even in Ronnie Neary's closet, where all the clothes hangers are of different shapes, sizes and colors, in the same way that working or middle class families might not buy all the hangers they need at once due to the lack of money or resources. 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Melinda Dillon was cast largely at the suggestion of director Hal Ashby. He had heard that Steven Spielberg was having difficulty casting the part of Jillian, and Ashby had just completed his movie Bound for Glory (1976) with her in the cast - and liked her work. So Ashby sent Spielberg a couple of film reels containing her acting. Upon seeing those, Spielberg hired Dillon immediately. 25 of 29 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Despite the title "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Barry and the other abductees were actually involved in a case of "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind," which denotes abduction by extraterrestrial beings. However, among other problems, the phrase "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind" had not been invented yet, and was unnecessary for Steven Spielberg's use. 65 of 82 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options A deleted scene showed Roy watching the sky from an observation platform he had constructed on the roof of his house. The platform can be spotted in the film during the scene in which Ronnie leaves Roy with kids and backs out of the driveway in the family station wagon. 13 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The organization that Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) leads is called the Mayflower Project, a secret collaboration between USA and France to establish contact with UFOs. Its flag is white with a black triangle on it, and it can be seen between US and French flags during the secret reunion scene where Lacombe explains Zoltan Kodaly's manual signals used to interpret the musical notes. Mayflower Project is never explained in the movie, but in the novel. 20 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In 1977, model kit manufacturer Revell was interested in creating a mothership model kit, but they ultimately passed on the opportunity. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the beginning of the film in the Sonoran Desert, from inside one of the World War II airplanes, they pull out a calendar that looks vintage from 1945. Across the grid of the days of a full month on the calendar is plainly seen a light blue logo from the defunct Security National Bank (which did not exist in 1945, either). In the fall of 1972, Security National Bank issued a 1973 calendar that corresponded exactly, month by month, day by day, to the 1945 calendar for fun. Thus, this unique idea was a promotional give away to the bank's customers. As no time had passed in the relative universe of the planes, the 1945 calendar had to appear brand new so they utilized the fake vintage calendar. 38 of 47 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options While no part of the film was actually shot in Muncie, Indiana, a production team did visit for local details and props, such as the pull-down map of Muncie that Roy consults in his truck. They also visited the bookstore of Ball State University for university memorabilia, such as a fraternity "BSU" paddle visible on Roy's wall, and the red-and-white "BallU" (or U-Ball) T-shirt worn by Roy in the shaving-cream scene. 25 of 30 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Jean Renoir compared the film to Jules Verne and Georges Méliès. 25 of 30 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The huge success of the film made a popular icon of its signature logo, a black-and-white image of a highway receding towards a glowing horizon at night. In 1978, an enterprising group of students from the College of Architecture at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, manufactured and sold a small production run of black T-shirts emulating the logo and typeface of the original, but reading "MUNCIE INDIANA: A Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind." Sales were going well until stories about the shirts appeared in local media, prompting complaints from Columbia Pictures, who were offended by the logo, and the Muncie City Council, who were offended by the slogan. 39 of 49 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The synthesizer fanfare composed by Suzanne Cianni usually heard over the Columbia Pictures logo at their film's openings was not used; instead, the opening title for this film was silent. 7 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Marvel Comics published an adaptation of the movie as part of their Super Special series. However, artists were given very little visual references to work with, and were unable to obtain likeness rights for the movie's cast members. 17 of 20 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the aliens visit Jillian's home, there's a shot of the screws in the floor vent unscrewing. This is shown in an extreme close-up. The unscrewing effect is very similar to what we see in the movie version of The War of the Worlds (1953), which would later be remade by Spielberg. 31 of 40 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of two feature films where actress Melinda Dillon has been Oscar nominated in the Academy Awards category of Best Actress in a Supporting Role [to date, April 2017], her only ever Oscar nominations. In neither movie though did Dillon win. The other movie was Absence of Malice (1981), released 4 years after Close Encounters. Both pictures were produced by Columbia Pictures studio. 10 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Post-production was completed by June 1977, too late for the film to be released as a 'summer blockbuster' which might have been just as well, as Star Wars (1977) opened that summer. 18 of 22 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg's original conception of the mother ship was an enormous black object that blotted out the sky and emitted light from the bottom, but that evolved into the brightly lit and less threatening image we know today. One of the influences on the final design was a huge oil refinery that Spielberg saw while filming the India sequence (the first overseas location shoot in his career), covered with pipes, tubes, walkways, and thousands of small lights. The bottom of the ship took form after he drove up into the hills of Los Angeles and looked upside down at the great expanse of city lights. 15 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The 2007 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition is the first release of the original theatrical cut since the Criterion laserdisc released in 1991. 22 of 28 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Bob Balaban (who played David Laughlin) recorded his experiences of working on the film in a diary and published it in 1978 as the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary." A new, expanded edition of the book was published in 2002, retitled "Spielberg, Truffaut & Me." 9 of 10 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Preproduction began with a year's worth of conceptual planning between Steven Spielberg and illustrator George Jensen, who created thousands of sketches from the ideas he and Spielberg exchanged. The two plotted details of seven major sequences, including the 30-minute finale. 16 of 20 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In a Rolling Stone Magazine interview at the time of the film, Steven Spielberg said he drew inspiration from the song "When You Wish Upon a Star". The score featured a brief movement based on the song, and can be heard during closing scenes. Also, Roy talks to his family about wanting to see Pinocchio (1940), the film in which the song was featured. 11 of 13 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the scene at the train station, whilst the town is being evacuated, the truck from Duel (1971) can be seen in the top right of the screen. 11 of 13 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Roy Neary was originally meant to be 45 years old. 15 of 19 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Two unused scenes included Ronnie Neary holding a party in her garden for the neighbors on a sunny afternoon, trying to get back to normal after Roy's close encounter. At the party, Roy can be seen absent-mindedly walking across the grass, with no interest in the party, but looking at the blue sky all the time. This caused others at the party to look to the sky to see what had Ronnie fixated. This first scene was just prior to another unused sequence where Roy is building a watchtower above the rooftop of the house, being helped by his son Toby. They were interrupted by Ronnie who was trying to get Roy to stop building. Although these scenes were cut from the theatrical release, but included in Special Edition releases in the "Deleted Scenes" section. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One unused sequence shows Roy Neary sitting down in a police station after his close encounter with the UFOs, ready to make a report about it, together with the police officers who just before had witnessed the UFOs along with him. However, looking around him, Roy watches as the police officers change their first declaration, fearing the consequences of being taken as insane and/or losing their jobs. This causes a disappointed Roy to destroy his own declaration and stand up to exit the police station. Although the sequence was filmed and finished, it was ultimately deleted. It was, however, included in later Special Edition DVDs in the "Deleted Scenes" section. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Twenty years later, Robert Zemeckis directed Contact (1997), based on Carl Sagan's book about a possible first contact between alien beings and the human race. Since Steven Spielberg was Zemeckis' mentor at the beginning of his career, Zemeckis included several nods to Close Encounters in his movie as tribute for Spielberg. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options With an original gross of $303,788,635 over a budget of $20,000,000, the movie raised 15 times its cost. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the year following the premiere of the movie, the number of tourists to visit Devil's Tower doubled due to the exposure provided by the movie. It has continued increasing year after year. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As the main group of UFOs arrives, a technician pops up and takes a photo with a slim black consumer camera. This was a Kodak 110 Instamatic, which used drop-in cassettes of 16 mm film. This was a hugely popular model at the time due to being very compact and easy to use. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Both Gene Dynarski (who played Roy's DWP foreman Ike) and Carl Weathers (who appeared briefly as an MP who questions Roy at the train depot) are listed in the end credits of every version of the film, but they're only seen in the original 1977 theatrical cut. 8 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Amy Irving, who would later be Steven Spielberg's first wife, auditioned for the part of Roy's wife Ronnie. 10 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The reporter who is seen at the Devil's Tower (on TV in Roy Neary's living room) is John Lindsay, a real reporter who had been the anchor at WLWI (now WTHR) in Indianapolis, Indiana, for a few years just before the filming of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Roy's house is supposedly in Muncie, Indiana, which is within the viewing area of WTHR. 18 of 24 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options A Disco version of some of the film's score, notably the Re Mi Do Do Sol communication tones, was recorded, and included as a bonus 45 LP with the double LP soundtrack album. The instrumental was given extensive radio airplay, and despite not being officially released as a single, charted on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, peaking at Number 13. The track would be later included on releases of the soundtrack album. 14 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg was dissatisfied, feeling "there wasn't enough wow-ness". 28 of 40 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The iconic and futuristic font type from the poster is called Handel Gothic Regular (AKA SF Fourche). 26 of 37 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The first collaboration between Steven Spielberg and his editor Michael Kahn. 17 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Neary gives his date of birth as December 4, 1944. This is also the date of birth of Richard Dreyfuss' older brother Lorin Dreyfuss - and, by coincidence, a year and a day before the disappearance of Flight 19, on which the lost planes in the movie are based. 28 of 41 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Douglas Trumbull's Motion Tracking System was accurate down to one ten-thousandth of an inch. 7 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options NASA is said to have sent a twenty-page letter to Spielberg, telling him that releasing the film was dangerous. Both they and the US Air Force refused to cooperate with the making of the film. 7 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the three detainees are running through the camp toward the Tower, the music is reminiscent of the fire engine scenes in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), which was directed by François Truffaut (Mr. Lacombe). 23 of 33 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The mothership's appearance was eventually re-used several times. In one episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) an alien race called Bendari arrives at Eternia in a space ship which resembles the mothership. And in Uncle Fester's Quest: The Addams Family (1989), another alien race who abducts all the population of a city travels aboard a spaceship very similar to the mothership. 9 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Despite its realistic appearance, the place where Roy Neary meets Jillian and Bary Guiler for the first time (the road where Roy almost ran over Barry and where Roy returns the next night finding a lot of people looking for contact with UFOs) was created in studio. 4 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The first time the original theatrical version of the film was made available on home video was a Criterion Edition Laserdisc, released in 1991. Before that, the only version available was "The Special Edition". 15 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Lino Ventura were considered for the role of Claude Lacombe. 18 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The trailer for the 1980 Special Edition was narrated by Percy Rodrigues, who had also done a memorable job narrating the trailer for Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975). 8 of 10 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The stars were created by spraying white paint onto Exeter paper with a low-pressure airbrush. 6 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The 600-foot-tall mountain (actually what's known as a Butte) is Devil's Tower in Wyoming. It was America First National Monument established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. It's a sacred religious site for American Indians from over twenty tribes in the Great Plains, in addition to be a popular place for technical rock climbing. Although its original name is Mato Tipila (translated as "Bear Rock", "Bear Lodge", or "Bear Tipi") its definitive name as Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge when Dodge's interpreter reportedly misunderstood the native name to mean "Bad God's Tower". It can also be seen in Paul (2011) (they used the formation at the film's climax as an homage to this movie). And lastly, The Native American story of the formation of the stars of the Pleiades at Devil's Tower is featured in Cosmos (2014). 6 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options It was one of the first home videos released with NCI Closed Captioning in 1981 by Columbia. When you have your TV set to display closed captions, a closed captioning copyright Captions Copyright 1981 Columbia Pictures Corporation is displayed at the end of the movie. That is present in all versions of the movie including the 1998 re-edit. 19 of 30 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The scene in which Lacombe demonstrates the Kodaly hand signs was filmed at the Municiple Auditorium in Mobile, Alabama, the day after Elvis Presley performed there. 10 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Besides the three primary versions of the film, there was a network broadcast version which aired on ABC-TV several times throughout the '80s, beginning in 1981. This version is often wrongly referred to as a "complete" version, combining all footage from both the original 1977 theatrical cut and the 1980 Special Edition. In actuality, this version was basically the Special Edition, but with some (but not all) of the trimmed footage reincorporated. 7 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One unused sequence shot for the original movie involved Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) and David Laughlin (Bob Balaban) get into the Air East 31, one of the flights that previously reported a UFO sighting to Indianapolis Air Traffic Control. Lacombe and Laughlin are seen entering into the plane to meet the passengers and the pilots, looking for information about the UFO sighting. After exiting the plane, they get into a car where Lacombe tests Laughlin's skills as translator by reading a passage from a book. Although the sequence was filmed and finished it was ultimately deleted. It was, however, included in the novelization and rescued for later Special Editions in the "Deleted Scenes" section. 3 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Justin Dreyfuss, who played Toby Neary, was actually Richard Dreyfuss' nephew. 8 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The release of the Blu-Ray Ultimate Edition in November 2007 marked the first time that a Steven Spielberg film was released in high definition. 17 of 28 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The trailer (for the 1977 original theatrical version) featured a camera traveling down a moonlit road towards the mysterious light of a mountain. In reality, a motion control camera rig that tracked down a 2-foot-wide road built with forced perspective. The mountains were actually 3-foot-high cardboard. The light was attached to a dimmer, one controlled by an effects assistant. 6 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One unused sequence shot for the 1980 Special Edition involved Roy stopping at a gas station while pursuing the UFOs in his DWP truck. Because there was a similar scene involving strange occurrences at a gas station in The Fog (1980), the sequence was never finished and ultimately dropped. It was, however, included in the revised version of the novelization published to tie-in with the Special Edition. 7 of 10 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The scene where Jillian grabs Roy's hand while he is hanging onto the side of the mountain right before they see the landing site resembles that of Cary Grant's hanging on Mount Rushmore before he is helped up in the film North by Northwest (1959). Mount Rushmore is only about 90 miles away from the Devil's Tower. 25 of 47 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Gene Rader, who played the gas mask salesman at the train depot, also appeared as a gas station attendant in Steven Spielberg's first feature, The Sugarland Express (1974). 8 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Despite his experience as Claude Lacombe was positive and it gave him another perspective about actors' work front to camera, by his unfamiliarity with Hollywood and science fiction François Truffaut despised Steven Spielberg and the own movie during a time, considering Spielberg's work ineffective, that the movie was a miss and giving negative opinions about it after the filming. However, when Spielberg was promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) in France, after the ending of the premiere in a theater of Paris he saw the figure of a viewer in a distant balcony standing up to clap strongly, making that the rest of audience also clapped. Looking for the figure in the halls, Spielberg found that he was Truffaut, who saluted E.T. was one of the best movies of all times and apologizing Spielberg for not having recognized then his great labor not only directing Close Encounters but directing him as actor. 8 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Michael Kahn's first special effects movie. 14 of 24 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The synthesizer/keyboard used by Lacombe (François Truffaut) in the movie is the Yamaha SY-2. It came out in 1975. 16 of 29 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider. 15 of 27 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Roy Neary was originally going to be named Norman Greenhouse. 9 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Jerry Belson, Matthew Robbins, Hal Barwood, David Giler, and Walter Hill all worked on the screenplay at some stage. 14 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As of 2018, this is the only time that Steven Spielberg was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director in a film that was not also nominated for Best Picture. 6 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the film's first scene, members of the crew are asked to get the engine block numbers off of the Grumman Avengers. In truth, these planes were equipped with radial engines, which have no engine block per se. 7 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Monty Jordan, cast as stuntman and helicopter pilot for the film was a Captain in the US Army Reserve at the time and was officially tasked by AL National Guard authority with overseeing military relations, operations, staging and shooting in Alabama. As a combat veteran, he was also cast to play the Special Forces team leader during the pursuit of Neary and Jillian up Devil's Tower. 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Basil Hoffman, who plays Longly, plays Dr. Friedman in another movie about contact with alien beings, Communion (1989). 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy is taking down all of his UFO-related paraphernalia, a model of the Starship Enterpise is seen hanging from the ceiling. Teri Garr previously appeared on an episode of Star Trek (1966). 12 of 23 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options While Roy Neary is talking with his wife, Ronnie, by telephone, the TV set in their living room shows an episode of the soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965), just before the ABC News report about the train accident (when Roy discovers the meaning and location of the Devil's Tower National Monument). 21 of 47 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options UFO is short for Unidentified Flying Object. Although it refers at any unknown object seen, filmed or detected in the skies (probe balloons, missiles, artificial satellites, meteor shower, blue jets, red sprites, etc.), it's assumed UFO as a space ship from another world commanded by advanced extraterrestrial beings. The term UFO was mentioned by first time in 1953 by writer Donald E. Keyhoe, being finally coined in 1956 by USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (head of Blue Book Project made by USA Army to investigate UFO) to replace the previous "flying saucer" established by pilot and businessman Kenneth Arnold in June 24, 1947, after to watch nine strange objects when he was flying in his plane above Mount Rainier (Arnold reported that the objects were moving as "flying like a saucer would"). This incident is considered the rise of the modern age of the phenomenon of UFO sightings and also the rise of the ufology, science to analyze and investigate the kind of UFO that it was seen, videotaped, filmed and detected in radar, in order to determine if it's something natural (meteor shower, shooting stars, Aurora Borealis, blue jets, red sprites), artificial (missile, probe balloon, satellite, flight of secret military planes) or something really extraterrestrial. 5 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The only film that year to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, but not Best Picture. 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Claude Lacombe, David Laughlin and the team are in Goldstone Radio Telescope's Station 14, Team Leader (Merrill Connally) questions Project Leader (J. Patrick McNamara) by the origin of the signal that it's sending a series of numbers as possible answer to the India's sounds recorded that the project send to outer space, with Project Leader saying him: "Light travel time, roughly seven seconds. It's well within the plane of the ecliptic." Seven seconds at light travel time are equivalent to 2.1 million kilometers or 1.3 million miles from planet Earth. More exactly 2,098,547.21 kilometers or 1,303,976.78 miles away, or between 4 and 5 times farther out than the Moon. 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At 3mins, seven passengers egress the car. The car appears to be an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser (of some version). These had three rows of seats for passengers, and could have carried that many. 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Only one movie for Adrienne Campbell (Silvia Neary), Mary Gafrey (Mrs. Harris), Michael J. Dyer (Rev. Dyer), Phil Dodds (ARP Musician), Roy E. Richards (Air East Pilot), Cy Young (Radio Telescope Team) and John Ewing (Dirty Tricks #1). 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Biggest spaceship of the movie is named Mothership. Ironically, this movie became one of the Sci-Fi genre's biggest hits and the basis of many movies about alien contact with humans, making this the "mother" and/or direct influence of both mainstream movies and TV movies (no matter if the plot is fictional or based/inspired on real events). Movies such as The Abyss (1989), Communion (1989), Project Alien (1990), Intruders (1992), Fire in the Sky (1993), The Puppet Masters (1994), Visitors of the Night (1995), Species (1995), Independence Day (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), The Arrival (1996), Contact (1997), Target Earth (1998), The Second Arrival (1998), Signs (2002), Silent Warnings (2003), Night Skies (2007), The Objective (2008), The Fourth Kind (2009), Skyline (2010), Super 8 (2011), World Invasion: Battle LA (2011), Battleship (2012), Dark Skies (2013), The Signal (2014), Arrival (2016), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When in Goldstone Radio Telescope Station, David Laughlin realizes that the numbers are coordinates and the team takes a large Earth globe from the supervisor's office to locate them, a man complains that the globe has a cost of $2,500 (dollars of 1977). Accounting for inflation, the globe would have a cost of $11,017 (dollars as of 2021). 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options According to Animation Supervisor Robert Swarthe, the stadium lights needed to be brightened for some shots. This was successfully achieved by Swarthe's crew - on the matte stand. 4 of 6 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Many of the battery-operated toys which come to life in Barry's bedroom represent real-life objects seen during the film: a jet airliner, a helicopter, a police car, etc. 10 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At one time there were three editions of the film; the original edition and the director's edition, which were put together for TV and shown over two nights, creating a third edition. All three editions could be bought together either on VHS or DVD. 8 of 16 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After this film, Cary Guffey appeared with Bud Spencer in two Italian-made family movies, Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre (1979) and its sequel, Chissà perché... capitano tutte a me (1980). In them, Guffey played a humanoid alien named H7-25. 8 of 16 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The second of two times that Teri Garr plays a woman who is married to a man who is sane but considered crazy because of something he saw. The first was Oh, God! (1977). 8 of 16 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) is talking to his wife trying to describe what he saw in the sky, he likens it to reading about the Aurora Borealis in the National Geographic. Previously, in Jaws (also directed by Steven Spielberg), Dreyfuss' character was mocked by the mayor, claiming that he would love to get his name in the National Geographic. 9 of 21 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of the planes that air traffic control talks to is Allegheny Airlines, and in Barry's bedroom not long thereafter in the film, an American Airlines toy can be seen on the floor. Allegheny Airlines later became USAir, later US Airways, which was merged with and absorbed into American Airlines. 10 of 24 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Based on the position of Roy and Jillian at the side of Devil's Tower, and the PA announcement of the first approach of the alien visitors, the box canyon landing base was located on the southeast quadrant of the mountain. 4 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy Neary wakes up after spending the night sleeping in the living room, he sees his little daughter Silvia watching a cartoon short of the Looney Tunes in the TV. This cartoon short is Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953), which features by first time Daffy Duck as Duck Rogers, a Buck Rogers (1939)' parody. 4 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Director John Milius's name can be briefly seen in one of the two UFO articles Ronnie Neary cuts out of the newspaper. Incidentally these articles are positioned between a "continuation" of an article about Star Wars. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American Movies. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the child Barry Guiler runs from the house at night chasing the UFOs, he meets Farmer on the road just prior to his being almost run over by Roy Neary (avoided in the last moment by his mother Jillian). In the 1960s and 1970s, during the golden age of the hippie movement, it was relatively common for families and groups of friends to travel together at night looking for any kind of supernatural or UFO activity. This is later seen when Roy Neary attempts to return the next night following his first close encounter to the place where he saw UFOs, finding not only a great deal of people hoping to make contact, but meeting Jillian and Barry. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Not counting Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut), David Laughlin (Bob Balaban), Wild Bill (Warren J. Kemmerling) and Robert (Lance Henriksen), the rest of the members of the secret organization (as Team Leader and Project Leader) have no name. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Actors Lino Ventura and Yves Montand were considered for the role of Lacombe. 10 of 28 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options First collaboration between Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr. They would meet again in the comedy Let It Ride (1989). 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Teri Garr and Bob Balaban both guest starred on Friends (1994) as Phoebe's biological parents, though they weren't in the same episode. Garr appeared in Friends: The One at the Beach (1997), Friends: The One with the Jellyfish (1997) and Friends: The One with Phoebe's Uterus (1998), and Balaban in Friends: The One with Joey's Bag (1999). 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options (at around 34 minutes) Commenting on the fact that half of Roy Neary's face is burned and the other half isn't, a kid says, "He looks like a 50/50 Bar." A 50/50 Bar is an ice cream bar that is half vanilla ice cream at the center with another half on the outside that is orange Popsicle, hence the name 50/50. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Eliott Keener was supposed to have a role as one of the people being evacuated from Devil's Tower, but all of his shots were cut out, except one where you can briefly see his elbow. 9 of 25 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Once when the door opened the aliens fell out. 9 of 25 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the Indianapolis Air Traffic Control's scene are mentioned three airlines companies: TWA, Allegheny and Air East. TWA is short for Trans World Airlines, created in July 16, 1930. It was a mayor company and one of the "Big Four" domestic airlines companies (together American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and United Airlines) until December 1, 2001 when it closed to be acquired by American Airlines. Allegheny Airlines was founded in March 7, 1939 by brothers Richard Chichester du Pont and Alexis Felix du Pont Jr. with the original name of All American Aviation Company, renamed as All American Airways in 1949 and the definitive Allegheny Airlines in 1953. It was closed in October 28, 1979 to be reconverted in USAir, operating until October 17, 2015 when it was merged with American Airlines. Finally, Air East isn't a real airline, but a fictional company created specifically for the movie. 3 of 6 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Early in the movie one of Barry's toys moving across the room is an American Airlines DC-10. Later on during the press conference the journalist notes that he can't recall a photograph ever being taken of a crashing plane. In a disturbing coincidence two years after the movie came out an American Airlines DC-10 crashed at O'Hare airport in Chicago killing everyone on board. There is a famous photograph of the plane on its side in peril just moments before impact. 2 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Richard Dreyfuss (Roy Neary) and Bob Balaban (David Laughlin) would meet again four years later in Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981). 2 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Lance Henriksen, who plays Robert (a Lacombe's assistant), eventually turned in an icon of fantasy and Sci-Fi after he was involved with Alien (1979)'s franchise, playing Bishop, Bishop II and Charles Bishop Weyland in Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) respectively, in addition to play Vukovich in The Terminator (1984) and Frank Black in the series Millennium (1996), among others roles. 2 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Jillian Guiler is watching a TV news story about Devil's Tower about a train wreck transporting toxic gas, in Jillian's room can be seen a lot of pictures and drawings made by her depicting Devil's Tower. It's not unusual for UFO contactees to make pictures and drawings about the close encounter they have had. 3 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Two of the main characters are a man from Indiana (Neary) and a Frenchman who leads a government project. In Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the main character's name (or nickname) is Indiana, and the German archaeological team is led by a Frenchman. 8 of 41 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The car crash that occurs while police pursue UFOs was performed by stuntman Craig R. Baxley. Baxley would later direct fellow CE3K alumnus, Carl Weathers, in Action Jackson (1988). 3 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Three actors of this movie have appeared in the Star Trek franchise: 1 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The farmer, played by Roberts Blossom, talks about his encounter with Bigfoot during the meeting with authorities. Melinda Dillon would play a member of a family who encounters Bigfoot in Harry and the Hendersons (1987) (later adapted as the TV series Harry and the Hendersons (1991)). 1 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The song that begins to play spontaneously on Barry's phonograph is called "The Square Song", and is by the Pickwick Children's Chorus. It appears on an album from 1970 with, among other things, the theme from "Sesame Street". 1 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options An uncredited appearance from Fred Grandy, known by his role as Gopher in The Love Boat (1977), can be seen in (at least) the Director's Cut at 1:10:30, as the man on the right of the TV screen, holding a microphone on what appears to be some sort of TV game show. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Richard Dreyfuss and Julia Phillips; and four Oscar nominees: François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Dr. J Allen Hynek who was the lead researcher for the US Government to study UFOs/UAP from 1947-1969 made a brief appearance. He died hypothesizing the objects were from an unknown intelligence and wanted more scientific funding for the topic. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the Spanish dub, the famous line "toys" said by Barry when he looks out the window as UFO close to his home was translated as "deprisa" ("hurry up"). Unconfirmed, the change of line apparently would be to make more evident Barry's desire to be taken by the UFO, asking them close him faster. 1 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy Neary, Jilliam Guiler and Larry Butler escape of the decontamination camp, Wild Bill can be seen talking to the another contacted taken to the camp by Lacombe that they are inside of a helicopter, saying them that they don't remove their gas mask to arrive the evacuation zone. The helicopter takes off and Wild Bill talks by telephone with his superior about to catch Roy, Jillian and Larry, talking after with Claude Lacombe (accompanied by David Laughlin), while at all the time can be seen at the bottom of the screen as the helicopter flies away, losing at the distance in the cloudy sky. 1 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of the first movies to be scientifically credible to depict a contact between alien beings and human race, moving away from the typical and classic 50s' Sci-Fi movies as The Flying Saucer (1950), Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950), The Man from Planet X (1951), The Thing from Another World (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952), Invaders from Mars (1953), It Came from Outer Space (1953), Robot Monster (1953), The War of the Worlds (1953), Target Earth (1954), Them! (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), The Creeping Unknown (1955), This Island Earth (1955), It Conquered the World (1956), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Forbidden Planet (1956), World Without End (1956), X the Unknown (1956), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), Not of This Earth (1957), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958), between others. Oddly enough, the own Steven Spielberg directed 52 years later The War of the Worlds (1953)' remake, War of the Worlds (2005). 1 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Both Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban also appeared in Absence of Malice (1981). 2 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Claude Lacombe and David Laughlin are above a hill in India questioning the crowds about the origin of the chants they sing, all the crowds point to the sky with their index finger raising them hands. Counting totally and partially seen, there are about 23 hands raised. In numerology, 23 symbols knowledge, diplomacy, creativity and a personal sense of freedom. All these concepts are in the movie: Roy Neary, Jillian Guiler and Claude Lacombe looking for knowledge about UFOs, with Lacombe leading an international project to communicate with an alien race, using diplomacy instead aggression. Jillian Guiler works as artistic painter, using her creativity to recreate UFOs in her paintings (it can be seen in the motel scene, during Devil's Tower TV report). And Roy Neary acquires a personal sense of freedom after his close encounters with the UFOs, rejecting any social conventionalism and turning him in a weirdo for his neighbors, friends and bosses (time later of Roy's close encounter Ronnie complains him that he lose his job and their friends don't call them anymore) in his searching for the truth, losing finally his family and being free to travel Devil's Tower to contact with the UFOs. 2 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Claude Lacombe, David Laughlin and the team are in Goldstone Radio Telescope's Station 14 investigating India's sounds recorded, they receive a series of numbers that Laughlin identify as earth coordinates. The numbers are 104 44 30 40 36 10. 1 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The extraterrestrials never speak. 1 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy Neary is at the train crossroads, he points his flashlight at some mail boxes after hearing the noise of them moving on their own. On the top right mail box can be read "G. Dickson. Box 201". 0 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. 0 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options CameoJ. Allen Hynek: Famed ufologist, who coined the phrase "close encounter of the third kind". He can be seen as the gray-haired man with glasses, a pointed beard, and a pipe walking out to see the returnees in the final sequence. 88 of 93 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options SpoilersThe trivia items below may give away important plot points. Barry is shown to be surprised by the extraterrestrials. Director Steven Spielberg had two crew members hide in boxes off camera, one in a clown suit and one in a gorilla suit. One popped out, then the other as the cameras rolled, catching young Cary Guffey's bewildered reaction. Spielberg then whispered to the gorilla to remove his mask, eliciting a smile from Guffey. 167 of 169 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The small aliens in the film were played by local girls aged between 8 and 12 years old. Girls were used instead of boys because Steven Spielberg felt that they moved more gracefully. 161 of 163 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Cary Guffey really did cry at the end of the movie when he said goodbye to the aliens. Steven Spielberg told him to think of all his friends going away forever. 108 of 111 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options François Truffaut was continually trying to improve his English during production, and he was self-conscious of his heavy French accent. When he delivered the line "They belong here more than we" (after he learns the Army plans to dust the mountain with nerve gas), several crew members thought that he had said "Zey belong here, Mozambique." Several T-shirts were printed with this quote as a joke. When he heard about this, Truffaut supposedly burst out laughing. Steven Spielberg mentioned on a laserdisc documentary for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) that Truffaut later used a variation of the line in a congratulatory telegram after E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The telegram to Spielberg read, "You belong here more than me." 101 of 104 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg's Cocker Spaniel Elmer can be seen during the release of the abducted humans from the mothership, sliding down the ramp. Elmer also appears in Jaws (1975) as the Brody family dog. 103 of 107 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg has confessed that if he had a chance to make this movie today, Roy would never have abandoned his family to go to outer space. Source: "Spielberg on Spielberg", 2007, TCM. 136 of 143 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The Jaws (1975) theme can be heard during the scene when the mother ship is communicating with the base, right before the release of the human abductees. The joke is that if the humans could not recognize the message in the initial series of lights and sounds, perhaps they should try something more familiar. 119 of 126 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The final alien with whom Mr. Lacombe communicates by sign language was initially a child in a rubber costume. However, when doing the hand gestures, the folding rubber simply looked fake, so the scene had to be re-shot with an animatronic puppet. 42 of 43 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The spindly alien which appears briefly, spreading its arms in a peaceful gesture, was an elaborate marionette made for the film by puppeteer Bob Baker, and referred to during the production as 'Daddy Long Legs.' Actually the prototype for a planned sequence involving several aliens performed as marionettes, Baker's alien had transparent skin so that the internal organs and skeleton were visible, including a beating heart. Although the idea of using marionettes was abandoned, a last-minute decision was made to include Baker's prototype; and so a miniature set of the mothership ramp was constructed to film the creature emerging from the ship. 26 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Beyond having to manage the myriad of complex technical and artistic details involved, Steven Spielberg would find he also had to spend a lot of time and energy battling the studio for more and more money, a task he wasn't prepared for and didn't like. At one point later in production, the studio refused to shell out several thousand dollars for the effect of the Devil's Tower control room glass shattering and Spielberg used his own money for it. 39 of 41 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Steven Spielberg gave Carlo Rambaldi photos of Cary Guffey to use as reference when creating the animatronic extraterrestrial (nicknamed "Puck") that communicates with Lacombe. The resemblance is most noticeable when the alien smiles. 28 of 29 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The final sequence as well as almost every scene that takes place at night was filmed at a giant dirigible hangar in Mobile, Alabama. The heat was unbearable, although it did not actually rain in the hangar as is often erroneously reported - the crew was only told that such a condition was possible because of the great humidity. There was a constant effort to get every arc light available to the location to film the reflections of the UFOs. Many lights in retirement from the Technicolor era were brought out of mothballs for the spaceship sequences. 48 of 52 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The mothership interior sequence from the 1980 Special Edition was designed by artist Ron Cobb, who also designed the Nazi flying wing for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). At the time, Cobb was being considered to direct another Steven Spielberg project known as "Night Skies", a proposed followup to Close Encounters of the Third Kind that was ultimately scrapped when Spielberg decided to make E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) instead. 17 of 17 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Many techniques were attempted to portray the aliens, who were played by little kids in rubber suits. One involved shooting them at normal speed while they moved through a sea of mimes dressed as technicians. The mimes would make slow motion movements so that when the film was sped up, the mimes looked normal and the aliens would appear to run about with super-human quickness. Flailing their arms and long hands about, they would somewhat resemble bugs. Inventive as it was, the human movements did not look convincing, so the idea was abandoned. Another idea was to suspend the aliens on wires and have them fly, since the mothership was supposedly in a lower gravity field (this line remains in the final cut of the movie as the ship lands: "watch for dizziness and low gravity"), and Neary was even supposed to float up as he walked into the ship at the end. This idea was eventually cut too, as this meant there would be a huge number of wires that could not be concealed by lighting, so wires were only used on the very thin insectoid alien. 46 of 50 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Dr. J. Allen Hynek (who created the 'close encounters' and other UFO report classification schemes) makes a cameo appearance near the end of the film during the return of abductees just after one of the infamous Flight 19's pilots is announced as having returned. Hynek is smoking a pipe. This was the second time that Spielberg used an author as a cameo appearance in a movie; Peter Benchley had a cameo in Jaws (1975). 49 of 54 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the end sequence when Roy is about to board the mothership, you can distinctly hear a stylized, yet very recognizable rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" playing in the score. 49 of 54 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the mothership opened, strings of white cubes were originally supposed to come out of it, quickly flying through the area like little sensors probing the surroundings. A test was done and some footage shot with the effect, but the special effects crew thought their techniques weren't advanced enough, so the idea was scrapped. 25 of 27 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Altough Warren J. Kemmerling's character is credited as Wild Bill, Lacombe calls him "Major Walsh" all times. It reveals his full name as Major William "Wild Bill" Walsh. 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As the returned abductees emerge from the belly of the "Mothership", their names are read out over a PA system. One of the names is Ken Swenson, who in reality was one of the model-makers working on this film. 32 of 38 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The priest giving last rites to the potential astronauts was a real Catholic priest, Father Dier. He was assigned to Blessed Sacrament in Birmingham, Alabama prior to coming to Mobile. 22 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy Neary has his close encounters with UFOs (together Jillian Guiler and her son Barry), three spacecraft are seen with a red light point flying behind them. It's seen again near the ending of the movie, when Roy and Jillian are hiding in the Devil's Tower, along with the same three spacecraft it was following earlier in the movie. This second time that the four are seen are when they hover above the landing site during the contact with Lacombe. In ufology, this red light point is called foo fighter. Originally mentioned by cartoonist Bill Holman for his surrealist comic strip "Smokey Stover" in the 1930s (where the own Stover referred to himself to be a "foo fighter" instead "fire fighter"). The term was finally coined during World War II by Donald J. Meiers, member of 415th Night Fighter Squadron who, in November 27, 1944, reported to watch red light points during a mission, referring to them as "f*cking foo fighters". The word "foo" is a bad derivation of "feu" (French for "fire"), translating "foo fighter" as "catch the fire" (referring to the pilots that tried capture them). During World War II it was very common for air pilots to report about the sightings of strange light points in the skies, making impossible movements for any human plane. 7 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The night when Roy Neary is at the train crossroads looking at a road map inside his truck, crickets and grasshoppers can be heard chirping in the background until a moment prior to his close encounter with an UFO. When it appears, the crickets and grasshoppers suddenly stop chirping, not sounding again until after the UFO goes away. In ufology this phenomenon is known as dead silent or cone of silence, an effect related to UFOs where nature and all the insects go completely silent while the UFO is present and remain that way until it goes away. 7 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Makeup man Bob Westmoreland appears twice in the film, first as one of Roy's co-workers at the DWP (only in the original 1977 theatrical cut), and later as one of the missing Flight 19 pilots returned by the mother ship. 10 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Lacombe plays the 5 notes on the keyboard, in the scene when the number transmissions are revealed to be Earth coordinates, watch closely in the background for the iconic poster of Farah Fawcett (then Farah Fawcett-Majors). 15 of 19 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options (at around 2h 8 mins) The little gray aliens are all little girls in costume from a ballet dance school. Spielberg considered that a little girl was more delicate and graceful to move than a little boy. 5 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options (at around 1h 26 mins) When Roy Neary meets Claude Lacombe and David Laughlin, Lacombe makes Roy a Q&A test with six questions to determine the kind of Roy's encounter he had with UFOs: 8 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The second time Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) meets with Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), during a reunion of people who hope to contact UFOs, while they both watch two lights moving in the night sky, she says, "It's like Halloween for grownups". In the Spanish dubbed over voice it was changed to "Es como una Noche de San Juan a la Bestia" ("It's like Bonfires of Saint John's Night to the Wild"), since Halloween was totally unknown in Spain at the time. Bonfires of Saint John is a feast of Celtic origin celebrated in several European countries that takes place at midnight on summer solstice to celebrate the coming of summer. 14 of 18 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of the new scenes added for the 1980 Special Edition shows Roy entering the Mothership, showing the inside. When the camera pans up by it revealing several floors and big windows with people in the distance, John Williams' instrumental version of "When You Wish Upon a Star" can be heard, which is Pinocchio (1940)'s main theme. 6 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options (at around 1h 42 mins) When Roy Neary and Jillian Guiler arrive at the Devil's Tower landing site, seven white points can be seen moving across the starry night sky that eventually form into the asterism of the Big Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear). It's the third largest constellation in the night sky after Hydra and Virgo respectively, and one of the five constellations visible all night long every night of a year (with Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Draco, and Ursa Minor), composed by seven stars: Dubhe (123 light-years from Earth), Merak (79.7 light-years), Phecda (83.2 light-years), Megrez (80.5 light-years), Alioth (81 light-years), Mizar (83 light-years) and Alkaid (104 light-years). It has been known throughout history since the times of the Greek philosopher Ptolemy (2nd century AD) as well as in all ancient cultures of the world centuries before. In addition, Dubhe and Merak can be used as "pointers", tracing a straight line between them upwards you can locate Polaris, the North Star, in Ursa Minor (Lesser Bear or Little Dipper) that points north. 6 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The musical conversation close to the end of the movie was inspired by one of Steven Spielberg's favorite movies about aliens, The Man from Planet X (1951), where an alien being comes to Earth from another world and speaks through music instead voice and words. 3 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy Neary returns to the road where he saw UFOs the night before, he not only again meets Jillian and Barry Guiler, but a lot of other people who are looking to make contact with UFOs. Among the people are seen an aged couple, who at one point look on with fascination at two light points that move in the night sky. Later, when Roy and Jillian are captured by Wild Bill's patrols at Devil's Tower surroundings and Roy is taken to the helicopter to evacuate him from the zone where he finds the other 11 contactees that Lacombe previously took there to interview them trying know their motives to go Devil's Tower, between the contactees not only are Jillian and Larry Butler, but also the aged couple. 3 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Ahead of its time, the film shows an accurate depiction of a case of PTSD (an acronym for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a term coined in the third edition of "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" published in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association), which is incarnated in Roy Neary. After experiencing the phenomenon of a close encounter that he can't explain or understand, Roy's life starts to become progressively unraveled. After his attempts to explain and understand what he experienced are unsuccessful, Roy becomes increasingly obsessed, eventually suffering from anxiety, anger, frustration, and depression. As a consequence, his personal life is severely affected, resulting in the loss of his family, friends, and job. Roy, now alone, becomes an outcast, unable return to his previous life. The term PTSD became especially popular in the 1990s during and after the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), also known as "Operation Desert Storm", by the high number of veterans that returned to their homes with several symptoms of mental disorders making it difficult or even impossible to return to civil life, something that would happen again in later conflicts. Turned eventually into a common term after "Desert Storm", PTSD too is used to depict the trauma of the witnesses of any supernatural event as well as the witnesses and victims of a crime. 7 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options By the PA system of Devil's Tower landing site are mentioned the names of some abducted after they are returned by the aliens and identified by Lacombe's team: Frank Taylor, Harry Ward Craig, Matthew McMichael, Otis B. Furlow, David A. Erickson, Robert F. Henkle, Matthew Daniel Swensen and Rudolph E. Delores. All these names are fictional. 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The first three returnees Frank Taylor, Harry Ward Craig and Matthew McMichael supposedly were pilot belonging the missing Flight 19. The real-life pilots of Flight 19 were Charles C. Taylor, E. J. Powers, Joseph T. Bossi, George W. Stivers and Forrest J. Gerber. 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Prior to the scene of the landing site at Devil's Tower, you can see Wild Bill (Warren J. Kemmerling) and the four Dirty Tricks (John Ewing, Keith Atkinson, Robert Broyles and Kirk Raymond) discussing possible methods to keep civilians far away from the zone chosen for the contact between the UFOs and the public. The methods mentioned are epidemics of plague and anthrax. Anthrax is a disease originating from the bacteria "bacillus anthracis", which can be found not only in livestock such as cows, bulls, goats, and other herbivorous beings, but also humans. Besides the discussion, there can be seen a yellow paper where there are written several diverse ideas: 2 of 2 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the UFO is close to Jillian Guiler's house to abduct her son Barry, the two can hear footsteps on the rooftop of the house, with the camera focusing on the ceiling and aliens walking by the rooftop off-screen. This scene pays tribute to a famous UFO case known as the "Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter", which occurred in the Sutton farmhouse located in an open field between the towns of Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, USA. On the evening of August 21, 1955, the inhabitants of the house, Elmer Sutton and his wife Vera; John Charley Sutton and his wife Alene; Billy Ray Taylor and his wife June; O.P. Baker (Arlene's brother); Glennie Lankford and her children Lonnie, Charlton, and Mary; and two sons from a previous marriage reported to the police station in Kelly that they experienced a close encounter with "little men" who were walking on the rooftop. Hearing the footsteps above their heads, they fired guns at the intruders for four hours. Worried about possible hostilities and a gun battle between citizens, four city police, five state troopers, three deputy sheriffs, and four military police from nearby Fort Campbell arrived at the farmhouse to find traces of the shootings made by the Sutton family but no injuries or fatalities. The authenticity of the close encounter remains controversial between skeptics that consider it a fraud and an example of pseudo-science and ufologists and believers who take the case as a true example of contact with extraterrestrial beings. The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter established the concept of "little green men", a term used by the press that covered the incident after some depictions of the witnesses in relation to alien beings, which has since turned into a popular icon of the UFO phenomenon. Eventually, the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter loosely inspired M. Night Shyamalan's movie Signs (2002), which pays tribute to the Spielberg movie when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his younger brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) run out of their farmhouse to chase a possible intruder, learning that the intruder suddenly jumped from the ground and is walking on the farmhouse rooftop. 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The USA Army press conference's scene is a semi-fictional version of the real conferences made by the army trying discredit the UFO phenomenon. The reason for the discredit was the fear generated with the legendary Orson Welles's version of the H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. In the night of October 30, 1938, Welles did a radio version of the novel (the fall of a meteor that inside it there was a alien ship from Mars to invade planet Earth), that it caused a widespread panic in the population, whom taken it as for real. Realizing how people could be easily fooled and deceived, USA Army was afraid that the then USSR used something similar to repeat the same widespread panic, taking the decision to deny any UFO sighting, specially after the famous cases of Kenneth Arnold, that in June 24, 1947 claimed to watch some UFO above Mount Rainier (Washington) and the happened on Roswell, a little town from New Mexico where in July 2, 1947 an UFO (supposed an alien ship from another world) crashed in the ranch of a farmer named J.B. Foster, 85 miles northwest of Roswell. USA Army did a first declaration about that Roswell UFO was a real alien ship, but at the next day did a second declaration denying it, to say that it was a meteorological probe balloon, being the only one case where Army affirmed (although briefly) to catch an alien ship. Both cases not only were the birth of the UFO phenomenon and ufology, but the USA Army's stance about any UFO's sighting, giving several press conferences with the years to discredit it. 3 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options (at around 1h 8 mins) When Roy Neary wakes up in the living room after sleeping there all night, he starts to discard the newspaper articles about UFO reports he had been collecting. The headlines of the articles include: "UFO Sighted over Indiana", "UFO: Seeing is Believing", "Canada: A Haven for UFO's?" (with the deck of "A noted expert has researched the subject extensively over the years as far back as World War II. His belief is that they come from Canada. By Renato Vesco"), "Scandinavia Bizarre's Sightings", "The Tulsa, Oklahoma: Photo & Analysis", "UFO Buzzes Air Force Base", "How to Contact a UFO", and finally "Flying Saucers and The Twilight Zone". To the left of the cut headline of "Canada: A Haven for UFO's?" can be seen a picture of an UFO with text below which reads: "Seven highly trained Tennessee police officers and reliable citizens have provided evidence of one the most documented, yet unauthorized, sightings in history". 4 of 6 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At the ending of the movie Lacombe turns the iconic five-note melody in Zoltan Kodaly's signs language to salute the elder alien, being answered by him and implying that he also knows Kodaly's language. Although as extraterrestrial race there is impossible that they know about Kodaly's language, it isn't necessarily a mistake, but an evidence that extraterrestrials have studied planet Earth for long time (as it's shown when the returnees are released from Mothership) looking for a language they could use to communicate with human beings. 3 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Larry Butler's fate is left uncertain. After running away with Roy Neary and Jillian Guiler from the decontamination camp commanded by Wild Bill at the Devil's Tower surroundings, the three climb the mountain trying to hide from the military forces that pursue them. Unable to locate them, Wild Bill sends helicopters laden with EZ-4 gas to fumigate the mountain, hoping to put them to sleep. Tired by the climb, Butler sits down on a big rock to catch his breath just before being alerted by Roy and Jillian about the fumigation. He is last seen lying on the ground as the gas reaches him. It remains ambiguous if Wild Bill's patrols finally locate and arrest him, or if the Mothership takes him when it later appears at Devil's Tower to make contact with the landing site lead by Lacombe. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Despite his prominence leading the evacuation of people from the Devil's Tower surroundings in order to avoid any undesirable witnesses of the contact with aliens and the interrogation of Roy Neary, Jillian Guiler, and Larry Butler, Wild Bill (Warren J. Kemmerling) is never seen after the interrogation, not appearing at the landing site where the mothership establishes contact with Lacombe and the rest of the secret organization. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Despite its great prominence in the plot, UFOs only appear three times throughout the movie: 1st, when Roy and Jillian have their close encounter on the road; 2nd, when it abduct Barry Guiler at Jillian's house; and 3rd, at Devil's Tower landing site. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the five-note theme is first sung and recorded in Northern India, it's in D major. However, when the open-reel tape of the theme is played back by Lacombe, it's in C major-a whole step lower. Then, with the Kodály hand signs, the audience sings this theme in Db major-right between the previous two versions. 2 of 3 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Roy Neary is talking with his boss Earl on the telephone when suddenly all the lights go out in a complete city-wide blackout. This is an usual occurrence with UFO sightings in which any electric lighting system is altered or turned off. This will be seen again later with Roy Neary's close encounter at the train crossroad when his flashlight turns off and his DWP truck suddenly stops while the radio changes the dial by itself. 4 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At one point in the movie Roy Neary goes with his wife Ronnie to a US Army press conference where officials talk about UFO phenomena, trying to discredit it to the public eye, using photos and other materials in an effort to deny any kind of authenticity. Later in the meeting, Farmer (Roberts Blossom) stops it to claim he saw Bigfoot once at Sequoia National Forest in 1951, causing affliction to Roy and amusement to Ronnie (as well as the rest of the press conference) by the surrealism of the moment. Also known as Sasquatch, Bigfoot is a mythical giant ape-like creature that theoretically lives in the wilderness and is a would-be missing link between the homo sapiens and human ancestors such as Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon. Ancient legend of the American Indian tribes, it became known to the entire world when on October 20, 1967 Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed Bigfoot (1967) at Six Rivers National Forest in northern California, where the first alleged Bigfoot video was captured. The video remains controversial between the believers that consider it real and detractors that consider it a fraud or hoax. It's usual in UFO meetings and press conferences for people to claim to have witnessed UFOs and/or all matter of supernatural beings such as angels, demons, ghosts, winged-men/women, sirens, etc., being the subject of mockery by the sightings they claim to have had. The press conference scene can be found in the 1977 theatrical release, but was cut from later editions. 3 of 6 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The movie is the personal effort of Steven Spielberg to get a feel for the time when it was filmed (70s years), where UFO phenomenon was in its golden age by the huge amount of apparitions and testimonies since 1960s years, making a visual encyclopedia about it collecting as fiction real-life cases including all its possibilities: plane pilots and air traffic control centers around the world detecting it flying by the skies and/or too much close of planes; police officers reporting to see strange objects while they was making their patrol; black out in towns and cities when UFOs are around; ordinary people claiming to see it or be contactees by them; people being abducted, returning time later (or not returning); night meetings of UFOs' lovers looking for make contact with aliens; true contactees unable to continue with their normal life after the contact because the trauma of that experience; press conferences of the government for trying to deny the phenomenon; and the secret attempt of the government to contact with an advanced extraterrestrial race. 3 of 6 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Roy's first close encounter with an UFO happens at the train crossroad, where a large spacecraft can partially be seen, thought to be Mothership. In the 1980 Special Edition Steven Spielberg added a brief moment where Roy's DWP truck is moving at night along the road with the shadow of a giant UFO moving from one side to another above him. This shadow matches with Mothership's appearance, confirming it as the UFO of the train crossroad. 2 of 4 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Wild Bill talks by telephone with his superior about apprehending Roy Neary, Jullian Guiler, and Larry Butler after their escape, he receives the order to fumigate Devil's Tower with EZ-4. When Lacombe inquires about what EZ-4 is, Wild Bill explains that it is a sleep aerosol that they used to put to sleep all of the livestock around Devil's Tower, and that it is used also in riot control and that it makes one sleep for six hours after exposure to it. 3 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Although Chris Carter was inspired by the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) to create the later The X Files (1993), Roy and Ronnie Neary could have been the Carter's inspiration to create the main characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, where Mulder (David Duchovny) is the believer and Scully (Gillian Anderson) the skeptical, imitating Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr in this movie. In addition, William B. Davis' character, Cigarette Smoking Man, could have been an updated version of Wild Bill (Warren J. Kemmerling), as a G-Man who works for hiding all supernatural event to the public eye and implied with a secret organization in a project about contact with extraterrestrials. 4 of 13 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy drives with Jillian to Devil's Tower, they see a lot of livestock (sheep and cows) seemingly dead along the road and in the grass. Although it is later revealed that this wasn't caused by UFOs and that in truth the animals weren't dead, but were fumigated with EZ-4 gas to put them to sleep as part of Wild Bill's hoax to keep the zone free of witnesses. A phenomenon related to UFO sightings is cattle mutilation. Even though the first documented mutilations date to the 17th century, it remained largely unknown to the public until 1967, when Agnes King and her son Harry, who lived in the town of Alamosa (Alamosa County, Colorado) found the body of their three-year-old horse Lady, horribly mutilated. The case was covered by the local newspaper "Pueblo Chieftain", obtaining great interest. After Lady's case, the cattle mutilation turned into a worldwide phenomenon, where all types of animals (bison, cats, deer, dogs, elk, goats, horses, pigs, rabbits, and sheep) have been reported mutilated with extreme surgical precision, being drained of all their blood and/or eviscerated of an ear, eyeball, genitals, jaw, flesh, lymph nodes, rectum, and tongue, depending on the case. It's the origin of some urban legends in an attempt to explain these mutilations, implying mythical creatures as chupacabras, secret government experiments using black helicopters to perform the mutilations, and UFOs. The cattle mutilation was investigated in 1975 by the US Treasury Department, which was transferred in 1979 to the FBI, looking for a satisfactory explanation. 3 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Lacombe's organization discloses the place chosen by the UFO for contact (Devil's Tower), it is shown how the army moves all its troops, disguising three trucks as Coca-Cola, Piggly Wiggly, and Baskin-Robbins. Of course, Coca-Cola is the famous worldwide nonalcoholic beverage company from Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1892 by John Stith Pemberton, who also created the beverage in 1886. Piggly Wiggly is a supermarket chain from Memphis, Tennessee, founded in 1916 by Clarence Saunders, being the first true self-service grocery store in USA's history. Finally, Baskin-Robbins is an ice cream and cake shop company founded in 1945 in Glendale, California by Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, hence the name. The scene makes an accurate depiction of how military troops and secret operatives move men and materiel from one location to another, avoiding being seen by civilians. 2 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At the opening can be seen two on-screen titles on the lower third one behind the other, saying "Sonora Desert, New Mexico" and "Present Times". Ironically, the movie makes and so much accurate depiction of the years 1976-1977 (when it was filmed), avoiding to be timeless for turning in a strong reference of the late 70s years in special and of the 70s in general. 2 of 5 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After his close encounter with the UFO at the train crossroad, it can be seen that half of Roy Neary's face was burned in the same way that Jillian Guiller is burned in her entire face and chest. The two comment about this when they meet the second time. It's not unusual for UFO contactees and witnesses to have burns on their faces and other parts of their bodies that are exposed to the UFO. However, these burns last for only a few days. 3 of 11 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The movie does not finish with the ending credits, since during the credits, the Mothership can be seen ascending into the night sky and getting smaller as it goes further away until it fades off between the stars. 2 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The movie can be interpreted as an inversion of the biblical Tower of Babel story. According to it, millennia ago the generations following the Great Flood spoke the same language and tried to build a tower in Shinar, also known as Babylonia (modern Iraq) so high that it could reach Heaven and meet God. Angry by this arrogance, God cursed the human race to prevent the success of the mission, turning their only language into several different languages, so that humans were confused and the project was abandoned. At the beginning of the movie, in the Sonora Desert in Mexico, the audience can see the confusion because the people are speaking English, French, and Spanish. Later in the movie, Lacombe and his team travel to India, filming people singing in Hindi the same song time and time again, looking for its meaning as well as the strange pulses detected by Goldstone Radiotelescope Station, converted to a series of numbers with no apparent sense. Discovering that the numbers are the location for Devil's Tower as the place chosen by the UFOs to make contact with the human race, Lacombe and the rest of the team move to the landing site, making Devil's Tower the opposite of the Tower of Babel, surpassing any linguistic barrier to get a straight communication with UFOs, using music and sign language. It would unite the human race to complete the unfinished job from millennia ago, talking with a "God" (UFO) that comes from the skies to give a message of understanding, peace, and hope. Very interestingly, the etymology of Babel is "gate of God", as a door to a new state of being, accurately the achievement by Lacombe and the organization: transcend the own concept of humanity to be capable of communicating peacefully with extraterrestrials as the next step for the human race. 3 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the night scene on the road where Roy Neary meets Jillian Guiler after almost running over her little child Barry (moments before their close encounter with UFOs), there appears a cloudless, starry night sky, where at the right of the screen can be seen the constellation Orion. It consists of the stars Betelgeuse (about 620 light years from Earth), Rigel (770 light years), Bellatrix (245 light years), Mintaka (915 light years), Alnilam (1,340 light years), Alnitak (800 light years), Saiph (650 light years) and Meissa (1,040 light years). It's one of the most well known constellations of the night sky, featured in myths and legends in many ancient cultures throughout early history. In addition, it's famous not only by its asterism of Orion's Belt (formed by Mintaka, Alnilam, and Alnitak, known in Spain and the Latin countries as "The Three Marys"), but also by the so-called Orion Correlation Theory, introduced for the first time in "Discussions in Egyptology, Vol. 13" and published by the Harvard University in 1989, which theorizes that the main three pyramids of Egypt (The Great Pyramid of Giza, Pyramid of Khafre, and Pyramid of Menkaure) were built to replicate the Orion's Belt star position it had in around 10,000 BC. It's believed by some ancient cultures that its respective gods and a powerful race of extraterrestrial beings come from Orion. 2 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Roy returns home after his close encounter with the UFO, he wakes up his family to take them to the same road where it happened. Trying to describe to Ronnie what he saw, she questions Roy if it was like "Sara Lee moon-shaped cookies". Sara Lee was a consumer-goods company from Downers Grove, Illinois, founded in 1939 by Nathan Cummings after he acquired C.D. Kenny Company, a wholesale distributor of sugar, coffee, and tea from Baltimore, Maryland which was founded in 1872 by C.D. Kenny, which in turn descended from the previous Sprague, Warner & Company, a grocery store from State Street in Chicago founded in 1862 by Albert A. Sprague and Ezra J. Warner, hence the name. As of 2013 these three companies were defunct: Sprague, Warner & Company closed in 1912, C.D. Kenny Company closed in 1934, and the own Sara Lee closed in 2012 to be split in two different companies, Hillshire Brands (for bakery and deli products) and D.E Master Blenders 1753 (for international beverage and bakery). As of 2020 the Sara Lee name survives as trademark of some Hillshire Brands' products. 2 of 10 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When aliens are at Jillian's home by first time, it can be seen the refrigerator opened and the food by the floor to the doggy door, which is moving quickly because the aliens crawled through it to leave the house. It foreshadows Barry, who later he crawls through the doggy door to be abducted by the UFO when they aliens return by second time. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In Roy Neary's first scene, he is reminded by his wife Ronnie to take the family to the cinema as he had promised a few days before, and by their older son Brad that he also promised go to Goofy Golf. "Goofy Golf" refers to miniature golf (also called crazy golf, mini golf, mini-putt, midget golf, or putt-putt), a version for children of the original golf game for adults. It was introduced officially in the 1912 edition of "The Illustrated London News" with the name of "Golfstacle" (a portmanteau of the words "golf" and "obstacle"), being exported to other countries through the years. The term Goofy Golf was coined after How to Play Golf (1944), where Mickey Mouse's best friend Goofy Goof tries to learn to play golf. For the Spanish dub, Goofy Golf was translated as "parque de atracciones" ("theme park"), as Goofy Golf was totally unknown in Spain at the time. Where can u watch True to the Game 3?True to the Game 3, a crime movie starring Malik Barnhardt, Starletta DuPois, and Omar Gooding is available to stream now. Watch it on The Roku Channel, Prime Video, Vudu, Redbox. or Apple TV on your Roku device.
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