This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

" This sense of exclusion was articulated by Jonathan Lethem in an essay published in the Village Voice entitled " Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction.

Her uncle also appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Sugarland Express, playing a police officer in both films.

The producers and writers have cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rashomon, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series.

In 2006 Williams entered the Guiness Book of World Records for selling 1. 6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day.

Williams kicked off his Close Encounters World Tour in South Africa in April 2006, when he finished his European leg of the tour.

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Limited use of 65 mm film was revived in the late 1970s for some of the visual effects sequences in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainly because the larger negative did a better job than 35 mm negative of minimizing visible film grain during optical compositing.

That same year, Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressive special effects by 2001 veteran Douglas Trumbull.

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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Having worked with Cary Guffey on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg felt confident in working with a cast composed mostly of child actors.

He also thought about a follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and began to develop a darker project he had planned with John Sayles called Night Skies in which malevolent aliens terrorize a family.

Carlo Rambaldi, who designed the aliens for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was hired to design the animatronics of E. T.

Besides E. T., some believe that another earlier Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), was also inspired by The Alien.

They included the episodes: Shake, Rattle and Goof, Close Encounters of the Weird Mime, Slightly Dinghy, Wrecks, Lies and Videotape, Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp and Tub Be or Not Tub Be.

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Portions of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind were filmed near the town's Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot ( now razed ) and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood was filmed in rural portions of Baldwin County near Bay Minette.

* In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the previously alien-abducted characters who was returned to earth at Devil's Tower is identified as " John DeLorean, Bisbee, Arizona ".

He was the first choice for director Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

According to Spielberg on a documentary on the Close Encounters DVD, Spielberg met him at a bar, where McQueen drank beer after beer.

Close to National Bolshevism and Third Position ideologies, Unité Radicale was dissolved in 2002 following Maxime Brunerie's assassination attempt on July 14, 2002 against then-President Jacques Chirac.

The film was reissued in 1980 as Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition, which featured additional scenes.

During pre-production, the title was changed from Kingdom Come to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Although not included on the original soundtrack album, a 7 " single, " Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind ", was included with the album as a free bonus item.

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" If we can talk to aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind ," he said, " why not with the Reds in the Cold War?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition was released in August 1980, making a further $ 15. 7 million, accumulating a final $ 303. 7 million box office gross.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was selected as the # 5 Best Sci-Fi Film.

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Close to the seacoast, rivers often provided adequate waterways, but the presence of the Appalachian Mountains, 400 miles inland, presented a great challenge.

This in itself introduces a fairly strong visual discontinuity across the cut, but as well as that, the cut-in shot might often have a circular vignette mask if it were a Close Up of a person, so reinforcing the effect.

Close variants often replace the sour mix with lemon juice, replace the cola with actual iced tea, or add white crème de menthe ; however, most variants do not include any tea, despite the name of the drink.

Close cuts to characters ' faces are used far more often in television than in movies ; they are especially common in soap operas.

During the 1960s and his brief musical career he was commonly known as Bob Klose, which was often misspelled Bob Close or occasionally even Brian Close.

The daily schedule of a political campaign is hyperextended, and often has no definite beginning or end, only a series of tasks to be completed by certain benchmark times, or, most often, " COB " (" Close of Business ").

Close vowels are often referred to as high vowels, as in the Americanist phonetic tradition, because the tongue is positioned high in the mouth during the articulation of a close vowel.

There is often a short, repetitive riff, while other times there is a whole tour de force of synthesizers ( e. g., Close To You by Fun Factory ).

It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.

Close by is the Capitol Theatre, which often hosts the Sydney runs of international musicals.

Close inspection of the anterior eye structures and ocular adnexa are often done with a slit lamp machine.

The seminary is frequently noted for the beauty of the gardens on its campus, called the Close, an English term used to refer to a private piece of enclosed property and often associated with cathedrals.

When such fighting includes firearms designed for close-in fighting, it is often referred to as Close Quarters Battle ( CQB ) at the platoon or squad level, or Military Operations on Urban Terrain ( MOUT ) at higher tactical levels.

Like the proposed Special Purpose Receiver, the Close Quarters Battle Receiver has been more or less taken on by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division ( often referred to as NSWC-Crane or just " Crane ") as its own project following the CQBR's removal from the SOPMOD program.

Close derivatives of the original design are used in all current browsers and are often extended to define roughly compatible security boundaries for other web scripting languages, such as Adobe Flash, or for mechanisms other than direct DOM manipulation, such as XMLHttpRequest.

Close observation will often glimpse a second short dive under the leaf litter, making the frog appear to disappear.

It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs.