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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[1977]
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1977
Running Times: 127 mins [UK special edition]
132 mins [UK special edition] 135 mins [USA]
Format: Metrocolor Panavision [anamorphic]
35mm 70mm [blow-up]
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Columbia / EMI
Executive in Charge of Production: John Veitch
[uncredited]
Producers: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Associate Producer: Clark L. Paylow
SCRIPT
Script: Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader [uncredited]
Technical Dialogue: Colin Cantwell
DIRECTION
Director: Steven Spielberg
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond; William A.
Fraker [US sequences]; Douglas Slocombe [India sequence]
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Steven B. Poster
Additional Photography: László Kovács; Frank Stanley
[uncredited]; John A. Alonzo
Additional Photography [Special Edition - Gobi Desert
Sequence]: Allen Daviau [uncredited]
Additional Photography [Special Edition - Mothership
interior]: Michael C. Butler [uncredited]
Camera Operators: David Berry, Eldon Rickman, Eugene
Eyerly, Maxwell Morgan, Nick McLean, Ron Peterso
Assistant Camera: Bruce Nicholson, David R. Hardberger,
Alan Harding, Richard Ripple
Colour Consultant: Bob McMillian
Gaffer: Earl Gilbert
Key Grip: Ray Rich
Video Technician: 'Fast' Eddie Mahler
Stills: Jim Coe, Pete Turner, Peter Sorel, Marcia Reid
Camera Design: Don Trumbull, John Russell, Fries
Engineering
Laboratory Technicians: Don Dow, Thomas Hollister
Laboratory Expeditor: Charles Hinkle
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Editors: Michael Kahn, Steven Spielberg [uncredited]
Assistant Editors: Joseph A. Ippolito, Charles Bornstein,
Geoffrey Rowland
MUSIC
Music: John Williams
Songs: Al Stillman, Robert Allen [Chances Are]; Ned
Washington, Leigh Harline [When You Wish Upon a Star];
Joseph Raposo [The Square Song]; Bob Nolan, Bernard
Bames, Carl Winge [Love Song of the Waterfall]
Songs Performed By: Johnny Mathis [Chances Are]; Slim
Whitman [Love Song of the Waterfall]
Score Mixer: John Neal
SOUND
Dialogue Editorial Staff: Richard Friedman
Assistant Dialogue Staff: Bill Jackson, Robert A. Reich
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Wardrobe Supervisor: James Linn
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: Douglas Trumbull
Special Effects: Future General Corporation
Director Of Photography [Photographic Effects]: Richard
Yuricich
UFO Photography: David K. Stewart
Mothership Photography: Dennis Muren
Animation Supervisor: Robert Swarthe
Animation Staff: Bill Millar, Carol Boardman, Connie
Morgan, Cy Didjurgis, Eleanor Dahlen, Tom Koester
Animator: Harry Moreau
Developed Cloud Tank: Scott Squires
Effects Electrician: David Gold
Electronics Design: Alvah J. Miller, Dan Slater, Jerry
Jeffress, Peter Regla
Extraterrestrials: Carlo Rambaldi
Technician: Robert Hollister
Special Mechanical Effects: Roy Arbogast
Mechanical Design: Don Trumbull, John Russell, Fries
Engineering
Effects Negative Cutter: Barbara Morrison
Effects Unit Project Manager: Bob Shepherd
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Joe Alves
Title Designer: Dan Perri
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Charlsie Bryant
AFI Intern: Seth Winston
Assistant To Spielberg: Rick Fields
Assistant To Producers: Kendall Cooper
2nd Assistant To Producers: Judy Bornstein
Production Accountant: Peggy Rosson
Production Secretaries: Gail Siemers, Joyce Goldberg
Production Staff: Janet Healy, Pat Burns
Project Assistants: Glenn Erickson, Hoyt Yeatman
Project Co-Ordinator: Mona Thal Benefiel
Special Consultants: George Randle; Jeff Shapiro; Ken
Ebert; Kim Lutes; Paul Huston; Peter Anderson; Richard
Bennett; David M. Jones, Kevin Kelly, Larry Albright,
Rourke Engineering
Technical Advisor: J. Allen Hynek
Transportation: Bill Bethea
Pilot: Steve Hinton
Publicity: Al Ebner, Murray Weissman, Pickwick Public
Relations
LOCATIONS
Locations: Bay Minette, Alabama, USA; Bernal, Querétaro,
Mexico; Bombay, Maharashtra, India; Devil's Tower,
Wyoming, USA; Mobile, Alabama, USA; Mojave Desert,
California, USA; Palmdale Air Traffic Control Center,
California, USA; Tequisquiapan, Mexico
Location Manager: Joe O'Har
Location Auditor: Steve Warner
CASTING
Additional Casting: Sally Dennison
CAST
Richard Dreyfuss [Roy Neary]
François Truffaut [Claude Lacombe]
Teri Garr [Ronnie Neary]
Melinda Dillon [Jillian Guiler]
Bob Balaban [David Laughlin]
J. Patrick McNamara [project leader]
Warren Kemmerling [Wild Bill]
Roberts Blossom [farmer]
Philip Dodds [Jean Claude]
Cary Guffey [Barry Guiler]
Shawn Bishop [Brad Neary]
Adrienne Campbell [Sylvia Neary]
Justin Dreyfuss [Toby Neary]
Lance Henriksen [Robert]
Merrill Connally [team leader]
George DiCenzo [Major Benchley]
Amy Douglass, Alexander Lockwood [implantees]
Gene Dynarski [Ike]
Mary Gafrey [Mrs Harris]
Norman Bartold [Ohio tollbooth attendant]
Josef Sommer [Larry Butler]
Rev. Michael J. Dyer [himself]
Roger Ernest [Highway Patrolman]
Carl Weathers [MP]
F.J. O'Neil [ARP project member]
Randy Hermann [returnee #1 Flt. 19]
Hal Barwood [returnee #2 Flt. 19]
Matthew Robbins [returnee #3 Flt. 19]
David Anderson, Richard L. Hawkins, Craig Shreeve, Bill Thurman [air
traffic controllers]
Roy E. Richards [Air East pilot]
Gene Rader [Hawker]
Eumenio Blanco, Daniel Nunez, Chuy Franco, Luis Contreras [federales]
James Keane, Dennis McMullen, Cy Young, Tom Howard [radio telescope
team]
Richard Stuart [truck dispatcher]
Bob Westmoreland [load dispatcher]
Matt Emery [support leader]
Galen Thompson, John Dennis Johnston [Special Forces troopers]
John Ewing [Dirty Tricks #1]
Keith Atkinson [Dirty Tricks #2]
Robert Broyles [Dirty Tricks #3]
Kirk Raymond [Dirty Tricks #4]
Basil Hoffman [Longly - uncredited]
J. Allen Hynek [himself - uncredited]
Monty Jordan [Special Forces commander / helicopter pilot - uncredited]
Howard K. Smith [himself - uncredited]
SUMMARY
A group of scientists
and a handful of unrelated civilians are touched by a
series of UFO encounters around the world. One civilian,
Roy Neary, becomes obsessed with a vision of a mountain
which he soon identifies as The Devil's Tower in Wyoming.
Neary, the scientists and dozens of other civilians
similarly haunted by the strange visions converge on the
mountain to await Mankind's first face-to-face contact
with an alien race.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Spielberg's follow-up to Jaws
[1975] is a stunning achievement, the humanist antidote to the gung-ho
juvenile machismo of its near contemporary Star Wars
[1977]. Though it hasn't developed the rabid fanbase of Lucas's
film, it has aged more gracefully and has matured nicely. It's influence
is all over The X-Files [1993 - 2002] and it remains
of the best SF movies of all time. [Full
Review]
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures
Releasing [1998 re-release]
Video Distributor: RCA / Columbia
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: PG
Finland
Rating: K-12
France
Rating: U
Germany
Rating: 12
Norway
Rating: 12
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG
AWARDS
1977
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography [Vilmos Zsigmond, William A.
Fraker, Douglas Slocombe] - winner
TIMELINE
1977
February
24: Sweden - theatrical release
November
16: USA - theatrical release
1978
February
28: Norway - theatrical release
March
3: Finland - theatrical release
1981
February
13: Finland - theatrical release [special edition]
March
13: Sweden - theatrical release [special edition]
November
15: USA - television broadcast [on ABC]
December
28: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1983
September
3: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1985
December
24: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1987
August
28: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1994
July
13: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1996
August
26: UK - television broadcast [on ITV]
1997
December
24: UK - television broadcast [on ITV (Carlton Television)]
1998
April
5: UK - television broadcast [on Channel 5]
October
7: Finland - video release [collector's edition]
POSTER TAGS
We are not alone
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Close Encounters of the Third Kind -
shooting title
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - The Special Edition
The Collectors Edition Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo - Italian title
Unheimliche Begegnung der Dritten Art - German title
Watch the Skies - working title
LINKS
REMAKE OF
Firelight [1964]
SEE ALSO
2001: A Space
Odyssey [1968]
Antz [1998]
The Bunk Witch Project [2000]
Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind [1980]
Combat Shock [1986]
The Creature Wasn't Nice [1981]
Free Enterprise [1998]
Gojira tai Kingugidora [1991]
Gremlins [1984]
Incontro con gli umanoidi [1980]
Independence Day [1996]
Jaws [1975]
Joey [1985]
Moonraker [1979]
Morons from Outer Space [1985]
Muppets From Space [1999]
Pinocchio [1940]
Return to Oz [1985]
Roswell
[1994]
Spice
World [1997]
Star Trek: First Contact [1996]
Star Wars [1977]
The Stuff [1985]
Toy Story [1995]
UHF [1989]
The X-Files [1993 - ]
The X Files: Fight the Future [1998]
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century [1953]
The Ten Commandments [1956]
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years at the Movies [1994]
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies [1998]
The American Film
Institute's Tribute to Steven Spielberg [1995]
Close
Encounters of the Third Kind - A Look Back
Making Close
Encounters [1990]
The Making of
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1998]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
American Cinematographer May 1980 p.436
[USA]
illustrated article
Art in America vol.88 [July 2000] pp.103-104
[USA]
article [Gregory Crewdson at Luhring Augustine by Edward Leffingwell]
Cinefantastique vol.6 no.4 / vol.7 no.1
[1978] pp.32-39 [USA]
illustrated interviews with Steven Spielberg and Douglas Trumbull [by
Richard Villard]
DGA Magazine vol.23 no.5 [1999] pp96-97
[USA]
review [Directors on disk by Nick Redman]
Empire November 1997 p.144 [UK]
review
Film Score Monthly vol.3 no.4 [1998]pp.
27-32; 29-31 [USA]
article [Watch the record stores, please by Jeff Bond]; article [I was
abducted by an album by Jeff Bond]
Literature / Film Quarterly vol.24 no.4
[1996] pp.376-382 [USA]
article [Language and the music of the spheres: Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind by Charlene Engel]
Soundtrack!: the Collector's Quarterly no.17
[June 1998] p.29 [USA]
article [Restoring Close Encounters by Tony Buchsbaum]
Variety no.383 [28 May - 3 June 2001]
pp.23-24 [USA]
TV review [by Scott Hettrick]
BOOKS
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Diary by Bob Balaban [New York: Fromm
International Publishing [1997] ISBN 0880641827]
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and
Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.75
review, credits KEYWORDS
ufos; abductions; aliens; mountains; military; scientists; children;
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