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.

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

Steven Spielberg used Unreal Tournament to test special effects while working on his 2001 film Artificial Intelligence: A. I.

Spielberg used a long focus lens to make it appear the actors were closer to the propeller than they really were.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple mostly in Lilesville, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house, which is located in Lilesville, NC and is an old farmhouse located few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple mostly in Lilesville, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house, which is located in Lilesville, NC and is an old farmhouse located few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house in Lilesville, NC-also known as the James Bennett Plantation-located a few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

A test reel using computer-generated imagery was used for the UFO aliens, but Spielberg found it would be too expensive and ineffective since CGI was new technology in the mid-1970s.

Spielberg used the technique again in E. T.

The Valiant's red color was also intentional ; Spielberg did not care what kind of car was used in the film, but wanted it to be a red car to enable the vehicle to stand out in the wide shots of the desert highway.

It was also used by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in their miniseries The Pacific.

Steven Spielberg used it to represent a fort in Sierra Leone where African slaves were auctioned in 1839.

* The neighborhood was featured in the 2005 motion picture, War of the Worlds, in which director Steven Spielberg used special effects to destroy Five Corners and St. Stephen's Church.

Go motion was originally planned to be used extensively for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, until Steven Spielberg decided to try out the swiftly developing techniques of computer-generated imagery instead.

Nearby, in Spielberg, there used to be the Formula One track known first as Österreichring, later as A1-Ring, where races were held from 1970 to 1987 and from 1997 to 2003.

Blair is the winner of a British Academy Award for Best Documentary for his 1983 film, Schindler, which preceded Steven Spielberg's feature by 10 years and was used extensively by Spielberg as a research resource.

In 2008, he reteamed with Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years ; his students included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

Steven Spielberg initially refused to release a pan-and-scan version of Raiders of the Lost Ark but eventually gave in ( although he successfully ordered the letterboxed format for the home video releases of The Color Purple and Always ); Woody Allen refused altogether to release one of Manhattan, the letterbox version is therefore the only version available on VHS and DVD.

Spielberg did not storyboard the sequence, as he wanted spontaneous reactions and for " the action to inspire me as to where to put the camera ".

Spielberg responded, saying that in many scenes he opted to replace sound military tactics and strict historical accuracy for dramatic effect.

The film was later nominated for eleven Academy Awards, with wins for Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, and Best Director for Spielberg, but lost the Best Picture award to Shakespeare in Love, being one of a few that have won the Best Director award without also winning Best Picture.

Velociraptor are well known for their role as vicious and cunning killers in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which they served as the main antagonists.

Schindler's story, retold by Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, was the basis for Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark ( the novel was published in America as Schindler's List ), which was adapted into the 1993 movie Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg.

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

It was labeled one of the finest war films ever made and earned Spielberg his second Academy Award for direction, and Hanks another Best Actor nomination.

Out of circulation for years due to licensing issues, Bogdanovich and TCM released it in 2006, featuring newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and others.

With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and Steven Spielberg in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the project at DreamWorks ; he received assurances from the studio — known at the time for its more conventional fare — that it would not " iron the out ".

After the mixed critical and public reaction to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spielberg decided to complete the trilogy to fulfill his promise to Lucas and " to apologize for the second one ".

Spielberg did not care for the Grail idea, which he found too esoteric, even after Lucas suggested giving it healing powers and the ability to grant immortality.

Unsatisfied, Spielberg suggested introducing Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr. Lucas was dubious, believing the Grail should be the focus of the story, but Spielberg convinced him that the father – son relationship would serve as a great metaphor in Indiana's search for the artifact.

Desiring a lesser known actor, Lucas persuaded Spielberg to help him search for a new talent.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

A number of filmmakers have had their movies honored for their achievements in visual effects ; i. e., five films produced by George Pal, five by producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron ( who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician ), four by directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and three by director Robert Zemeckis.

Spielberg intended to have Connery cameo as Henry in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), but Connery turned it down as he had retired.

) is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

* Twenty-five articles in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, edited by Jack Sullivan ( Viking 1986 ): " Arkham House ", " Charles Birkin ", " William Peter Blatty ", " Anthony Boucher ", " Fredric Brown ", " Robert W. Chambers ", " John Collier ", " Basil Copper ", " W. F. Harvey ", " Robert S. Hichens ", " William Hope Hodgson ", " Jerome K. Jerome ", " Henry Kuttner ", " Jack London ", " Kirby McCauley ", " Arthur Machen ", " John Metcalfe ", " Saki ( H. H. Munro )", " Steven Spielberg ", " The Supernatural: Belief and the Writer ", " The Twilight Zone ", " Edward Lucas White ", " Henry S. Whitehead ", " Colin Wilson "

People like Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, Robert Redford, Muhammad Ali, Quincy Jones, Andy Warhol, Henry Kissinger, Steven Spielberg, etc.

The Greatest Show on Earth was the first film that director Steven Spielberg saw and he credits it as one of the major inspirations that led him into a film career.

In 2002, the story was adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg explained when filming Jaws, " Dreyfuss talked me into casting him.

On September 23, 2007, Ronstadt was inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame, along with Stevie Nicks, Buck Owens and filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

This was especially true after director Steven Spielberg repopularized the effect in his highly regarded film Jaws, in a memorable shot of a dolly zoom into Police Chief Brody's ( Roy Scheider ) stunned reaction at the climax of a shark attack on a beach ( after a suspenseful build-up ).

In June 2006, Steven Spielberg announced he would direct a scientifically accurate film about " a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension ", from a treatment by Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst.

Precogs also play an essential role in another of Dick's stories, The Minority Report, which was turned into a film by Steven Spielberg in 2002.

Since the TV movie was not long enough for theatrical release, Universal caused Spielberg to spend two days filming several new scenes, turning Duel into a 90-minute film.

* The dinosaur roar sound effect that is heard as the truck goes over the cliff is also heard in Jaws, also directed by Spielberg, as the shark's carcass sinks into the ocean.

Schindler's Ark ( released in America as Schindlers List ) is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg.

When Spielberg set up Road to Perdition at DreamWorks, he contacted screenwriter David Self to adapt the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins into a feature film.

The story was not actually intended to be filmed until Steven Spielberg took an interest in turning it into a film.

In 2011, she starred in Oranges and Sunshine, a film recounting the true story of children sent into abusive care homes in Australia, directed by Jim Loach, and War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's prizewinning novel, directed by Steven Spielberg.

The comic has been adapted into various other media, including a radio series ( 1992 ), two animated television series, Belvision's Hergé's Adventures of Tintin ( 1959-63 ) and Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin ( 1991 ), and the performance-capture 3D film produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn ( 2011 ).

Michael Wilmington from the Chicago Tribune said " film takes Spielberg into realms he's rarely traveled before.

In the vicinity of Kitzbühel itself, Silurian limestones may also be found and, to the west, the grey, coarse-grained Schwaz dolomite which transitions towards the east, near Leogang, into Spielberg dolomite.

Steven Spielberg, combined two Park-facing units on the 13th floor into a unit with terraces.

The scene in which he presses up against a window to look into a classroom filled with American " schoolmice " is based on a story Spielberg remembered about his grandfather, who told him that Jews were only able to listen to school lessons through open windows while sitting outside in the snow.

Spielberg joked at one point that he considered converting 1941 into a musical halfway into production and mused that " in retrospect, that might have helped.

Steven Spielberg, director of The Color Purple, had a clause written into his contract barring Guber from ever coming to the set.

After acquiring the property, Freedman met with director Steven Spielberg for advice on how to make the project into an important documentary film.

In 1997, Spielberg saw Multi-Facial and wrote a role into Saving Private Ryan specifically for Diesel as a result, giving him his first major film role.